Want to find out where waking and dreaming merge? Try sleeping on a futon in the conservatory of your house by the river. And be sure to leave the door open, to allow a cool breeze to blow in off the water. Then make certain you're really tired when you go to bed quite late, and have your alarm set for early the next morning.
Then after all this preparation, if you're really lucky, you might just be woken at half 3 in the morning, by the sound of a small body landing hard on the tile floor, and a smaller body squeaking shrilly beneath it. Then you'll come immediately fully awake, but believe you're still dreaming as you watch Tom chasing Jerry around your bed. And it'll only be some minutes after this, when you're standing on top of the bed, having switched the light on, that the neighbour's cat Hazel will bat the field mouse she's brought inside to play with one last time, scoop it up in her mouth, and dash out the door into the night.
If you're awake by this point, you might want to close the door behind her.
And then hope and pray you don't dream anymore this night.
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