Notes from the Dream (circa 1982-1986) - Stephen H. Wolinsky Ph. D.

which covered or were on top of the emptinessportal.Peeling back these layers which seemed likejust labels,labels called pain,labels called fear,then labels called frustration,then labels called anger,then the dead space which deadened theemptiness.I dove or floated “backward” or “down” or“through” the portal like entering a black holeLike Alice in Wonderland falling through therabbit hole I was slowly sinking into a voidwhich felt like a sea of emptiness that had noquality or form.At first I resisted.So many bubbles surrounded meit was like “dropping” through an ocean“made of nothingness”.I began to imagine I would be coming tothe bottom, (like the bottom of a lake) soonwhereby I could push off and make my wayback to the top of the empty-ocean.Although all around me were bubbles andthe emptiness, I had somehow lost my sense41