Do People Dream in Space?

Do People Dream in Space?

The judge looked as a pretty woman with vines for hair. She said with a passion: We the members of the Jury being duly constituted in the State of Grace, and otherwise perfectly lit to determine the issues presented here, find the defendant guilty of playing with nature and otherwise intending to make the world a worse place for a living. Give me a minute so I can pass a comb through my hair, answered Norma.

She was asleep and yet she was conscious about a dream she was in. She didn’t know that people dreamt in space. And in the dream the judge and the foreman of the jury were the same person. And this woman was floating freely inside her cubbyhole making notes on a clipboard. Norma ignored both the decision and the pain.

This dream was telling her something, but what exactly it was saying? That the end was approaching and the epoch of humanity was over? It was a sad thought, but it was a logical one.

(Extract from The Rain, the famous SF novel by Elena and George B.)

Space Dream. Illustration by Elena