We dream more than we think we do. At night, of course, but almost as much by day. And dreams are not all alike. Just as our thoughts range from the airy and the ephemeral to the heavy and the profound, so do our dreams: they vary in their depth, some trivial, some influential, some holding great potential. Often, they imperceptibly permeate the day. We are far from being always wide awake with all our senses – we often linger, without being distinctly aware of it, at a crossroads between wakefulness and dreaming.
This is by no means abnormal or regrettable, because life is good in these liminal spaces, these interfaces of consciousness. Here, the inner images that we all live with take flight. Here, we find a source for ideas and inventions, for creativity in general. In these liminal spaces, knowledge and consciousness intertwine and overlap with dreams and fantasy. This is also true when it comes to finding and creating images – the images in this book.