I was awakened from the dream early this morning by, great rolls of thunder, and lightning which illuminated the world outside my bedroom window in flashes; still photographs. Heraclitus said it first, and then Freud repeated it: The dream eats the waking conceptualizing body, even as that same body eats the dream. The "dream-work" translates conceptual language into symbolic language; "dream interpretation" reverses the translation. Freud plays the part of the doctor, the one who assumes the concept is prior to the image, but his writing is much more ambiguous, not unlike Heraclitus.

Freud uncovered the connection between the sensual body and symblolic language. The language of the dream is a symbolic representation of the genital body, the body of human erotic desire. When the genital body sleeps, when it dampens down its conceptualizing/perceptualizing, the erotic desire that is that same body, produces images. That same body, when it awakens from the dream world finds itself in a world of thoughts and things. The common thread between the concept and the symbol is genitalized erotic desire. The genital organization of erotic desire, divides the whole body of erotic desire into opposing parts; pleasure suddenly becomes pleasure/pain. The rain is pouring down on Harris Creek as I tap out these words this morning.