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2002-09-09 - 9:41 a.m. Crying in one’s sleep has always been for me a curious phenomenon. Unlike the act of shedding tears while upright, one’s tears are diverted to flow in lateral (and opposite) directions, and if they are copious enough they might even soak the eyebrows or drip onto the helices of the ears. But this strange journey, deviating from the usual lachrymal irrigation paths, might not be considered so strange if one considers the stimulus that provoked it: that of the dream, itself always existing in a plane perpendicular, if not tangential, to the laws of reality. In other words, one of the souvenirs we carry with us, from the dream state back into the realm of consciousness, is the bizarre mask of crying sideways.
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