M8L8TH - DRAUMTING (2024)In Old German, draum— much like the English dream—encompasses both the dreams of sleep and the longing for an ideal, uniting them into one. Against the oneiro-poetic framework of Symbolism, where sleep and life are equated, and Romanticism, which likens sleep to death, draum arises, indivisible, as a cipher for breaking the bind of being and un-being. Neither "here," nor "beyond," but a threshold existence—other-being seen in a flash of foresight.
The prophetic dream, one that foretells entire worlds, is not ataraxy, nor a passive contemplation. It is the act of making within the dream, the creation in reverie. Through foresight, dreams leap into life, taking root, reigning over the real. Thus, draum becomes draft and vessel—of unimagined worlds, not yet but possible, — a form of "gnostic smuggling" carried across the checkpoints of reality by those who dare to dream.
Draumting— the council of dreamers, their visions like thunder rolling over the dreamless, the visionless. Until we meet at the Ting of Dreams!
