Multilinear: The Many Dimensions of Dreams

dreamtext of the planet Avay

"Dreams are bodies. Dreams are alive. Dreams can grow." 

That is how the book begins.

 

It is a publication from the later-middle portion of Iva Zera's writing life, seen by many as a first-run lead-up to the later work agreed by all to be a masterpiece, The Parabolas of Sleep.

 

Zera at least, and at best, half-confirmed this when they were at a tisane ceremony on Avay and said that everything done and dreamed throughout the whole of their life was but in preparation and practice to create Parabolas.

Regardless of the mischief of Zera's various half-confirmations, it is clear to all who explore these texts that without the absolutely key steps made in Multilinear, The Parabolas of Sleep neither would nor could exist. 

While the earlier book Roundabout the Dream Spheres only chronicled the author's own experiences, Multilinear's text both collects the experiences of a cornucopia of dreamers and chronicles the evolution of Zera's own dreaming as Zera began to live within multiple dimensions of the same dream at once. There Zera is able to feel the resonance of those other dimensions, of the dream's history, of its potential future, of its shifting present, with all the dimensions of space and time and sense, all at once, smooth as sap and without overwhelm. Zera learns how to live within the dreams, not as if they were a carnival of emergences from the sub or un conscious, but rather as if they were a universe as diverse and complex, with its own histories and engageable potentialities, as ours. 


A note that, as of this Codex's publication, it remains the case that Zera's ongoing hints of a companion text to Multilinear: The Many Dimensions of Dreams - a text named Nultilinear: The Dimensionless Dream - are still unproven and, at this time, believed to be yet another of the author's many casual and creative mischiefs.