{Undine (1)}[15th August 1988]

[Redbook5:285-287][19880815:0040]{Undine (1)}[15th August 1988]

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*By what manipulation of the mind I do not know – I am very tired** – but I am suddenly aware, intensely, of these Undine Angels around me as I write: childlike in form, but adult or more than adult in size, the foremost kneeling facing me at my left side,*** regarding me, her hands clasped in her lap; and others close by. I was first made aware of this, in the inner sense, by the touch of loving hands on my back and chest, and arms on my shoulders. This was just after I had wondered whether I should anticipate similar dreams**** tonight: laying myself open to them.

*cf [[Redbook5:199-200][19880701.1753d]{[xS] visiting}[1st July 1988],] 199,

[[Redbook5:200-202][19880702:0914]{[xS] is here}[2nd July 1988],] 200

{[[Redbook5:275-276][19880814:1130]{Two Dreams: Of swimming with fair-haired girls}[14th August 1988],] 275-6}

**[Possibly tiredness of the analytical and other conscious functions of the brain releasing other areas, as the writer repeatedly found when creating fiction after midnight during the year or so leading up to the date of this note; and as a young friend of his, newly a father of twins, found when composing music in the small hours. <20181230>]

***As I sit on the right side of my sofa, working, there is only room on the left…. <880815>

[in the tiny study – see next entry but one]

– but a more profound explanation might tie in with experiments connecting direction of eye-movement with mentation in the opposite (but controlling) hemisphere (Ornstein, Ibid [‘The Psychology of Consciousness’, Jonathan Cape, 1975 (1972)], 61-62) <880815>

****[Presumably, similar to those recounted above at {[[Redbook5:275-276][19880814:1130]{Two Dreams: Of swimming with fair-haired girls}[14th August 1988]]

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