When sleepless nights are haunted not by nightmares, but by indecision over a $25,000 wristwatch
ote to the reader: If on occasion you have a sleepless night, do not fret: It happens to everyone.
Of course, what caused the sleeplessness, and what you dream about, is important. Was it a serious matter or was it frivolous — or none of the above: just endless sliding away of boundaries, sleeplessness without known cause.
Sometimes, dreams can define who you really are. The biblical Joseph dreamed of the moon and the stars; Pharaoh’s sleep was disturbed by hungry cows.
Today I share with you a (somewhat edited) letter on this subject from what I presume was a former congregant. It surfaced out of nowhere during my annual — and fruitless — efforts to make my study less chaotic. The letter is clearly quite old, and I have no idea who the sender was or what my reply was. But it is a worthwhile glance into the mind of this unusual dreamer.
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