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I got the scoop on him. Apparently he was a real trend setter and leader as he had been in Song Lake, of which this bus acquaintance was not enamoured. He was especially disparaging of Hegle's boots which everybody apparently imitated in foot wear. Also got the scoop on the college, Saint Olaf in Minnesota which he said was some sort of upper middle class finishing school. It was where my father and uncles had all gone, and where I was to go had I ever graduated from high school and taken that route.
On the ferry we bought deck passenger seats which were the cheapest passage, and we slept in these chairs under all-night Mediterranean star light. They were recliners and so you could lay flat-out under the night sky. The problem was once getting to sleep for who knows how long, the seat would suddenly pop-up - wake-wide from one's dreams. I remember feeling around in the dark for some kind of recline locking mechanism but could find none. This may have happened every half-to-an-hour all night, waking me out of fantastic dreams. Some of the best dream-nights of my life were while travelling on bus, train or ship.
Some years later I came across the science-says theory that dreaming occurs only in the final minute or so before waking called REM. I immediately recalled
this night on the wake-up waters. The problem was, if I am having a great dream and am suddenly awoken in a second by the catapulting recliner, how does the dream mind know to dream just in this instant before being awakened ? If the dream is longer than a second, it would be assumed that the dreaming agent knows when wake-up will occur.
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