Dreams In The Witch House, by Sentimental Witches

Dreams In The Witch House

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A regular haunt of the MVM are the libraries of Miskatonic University, our alma mater. It was here that the 3 hearts of the MVM met in 01991.

It was there, thirteen years ago, that we found a dusty old tome in the antique books section. It consisted of hand scribbled narratives, seemingly collected from fever dreams. Working with the librarians at Miskatonic (who know us well) we were able to establish that the book came into the library's collection around 01953. Although it belonged with an earlier group of items from an old house torn down around 01932 and donated to the University shortly thereafter.

According to the notes accompanying the book, it was found at the same time in the same detritus of demolition, but was initially kept back from the other items by one of the demolition workers,who fancied himself a bibliophile. Over the years it collected dust on one of his shelves. Only after his passing did the book find its way to the University.

The book contained 49 dreams recorded by Walter Gilman in the months before his death. Besides being grotesque in its detail, the book struck us for its attention to sound. In many ways it was as if Gilman in dream inhabited a realer world than in life. His descriptions of the sonic dreamscapes chilled us, and we immediately set to crafting them. It has taken over a decade to capture Gilman's other world. It was far more complex than we originally recognized. And in the end required consulting with the noted physicist Roger Penrose, who was able to explain to us some of the more speculative and advanced mathematics described in the sounds Gilman recorded in writing. Penrose himself found some of the more arcane equations vexing and improbable. Their coherence and continuity in a world unlike ours belied their veracity in our world.

Paramount in the dreams as recorded in the diary, and something not discussed by the poor recollections of Gilman's housemate and acquaintance, Frank Elwood, is the way the dreams flowed in and out of one another, constituting a coherent narrative, one realer and richer than the dim university world of Gilman. Indeed, when you read about Gilman's brief life, the dreams seem to be the truer life, the life that progressed and cohered. Dream was where living took place. Gilman’s life as recorded by Elwood (and by the fragments of memories of the man recorded elsewhere by those who knew him) seemed distracted and fractured, a collage of disparate moments, an incoherent cut-up of different lives. Gilman’s life in his dream diary, conversely, had an internal logic and flow, a coherence from dream to dream, much more akin to what we think of as “real life” or “waking Life”. Indeed, it seems clear that this life, the life wherein our world knew him, was Gilman’s dreamworld, and the world in the diaries was his real world, his real life.

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