Sublime

and then dreaming over the result.

To test this phenomenon, download an app like Sleep Cycle and use it to both track your sleep patterns and wake during light sleep. If nothing else, you will realize that what you are experiencing is common and not abnormal.

Rehearsal:

Dreams have a tendency to dissolve, and that is why we forget so easily.

À sua volta desvaneceu-se todo um império de sonhos: secretamente, sem ruído, sem deixar provas, como só um sonho pode desvanecer-se, e ele nem sequer poderia contar aquilo que viu.

En fermant les yeux, en s’abandonnant à la somnolence et en consentant à se laisser duper par toutes sortes de spectacles, les hommes établissent et confortent partout leurs routines et leurs habitudes quotidiennes, qui sont pourtant construites sur des fondations purement illusoires.

Thou dreamest: on a rock thou art, High o'er the broken wave; Thou fallest with a fearful start But not into thy grave; For, waking in the morning's light, Thou smilest at the vanished night

Schiller, Schelling, Novalis (‘When we dream that we dream,’ Novalis wrote, ‘we are close to awakening,’ an early recognition of lucid dreaming), Hoffmann,