Grain in Dream
2007
Adhesive sheet, wood frame
46×37×2.5cm (width×height×depth)

Grain in Dream
2007
Adhesive sheet, wood frame
37×46×2.5cm (width×height×depth)

I always awake from dream just as if I suspect that I am dreaming in progress. But in that dream, I didn’t awake from the dream though I suspected I am dreaming. Then I tried to make sure that I am currently dreaming or not. I don’t know why but at that time I thought it is possible to judge whether it is a dream or reality by checking grain of some wooden stuff. I found a wooden table or some furniture nearby, and stared upon its grain. As far as I saw, that was a real wooden grain. Then I tried touching and stroking the surface of the grain. The grain felt same as a real wood. Also I heard a sound of wood when I tapped it. It looked not to be coated with varnish, had a bit rough surface, I’d got a splinter in my finger while stroking. I felt a slight stimulation at my fingertip, and saw it was bleeding. It tasted of blood when I licked it. From all these observation, I reached to a conclusion that I am not dreaming now. But then I woke from sleep and recognized that I was dreaming at that time! It really shocked me that it was a dream against all my careful examination. I learned a lot from this dream. One of them is that intuition is more correct than the five senses. I wouldn’t have to err in my judgment if I belonged to what I actually knew by intuition that this is a dream, in the beginning of the dream. Another is that seeing, touching, and other senses are equivalent in the point of to perceive. Since I was studying sculpture, I vaguely considered that the sense of touch is more reliable than the sense of sight which sometimes causes an illusion. But there was no such fact at all. I couldn’t know the true reality by using perception. I actually felt that perception is a limited ability. (October 30, 2006)