Is it blue? But what is it? Can a sound have color? In this house perhaps it may. But in the absence of light there is nothing but sound to go on, and for all his talents Thomas cannot gauge the color of what he hears, scratching and scrabbling in the dark. No, but perhaps that is merely a figment of his imagination, something conjured by the darkness. The worst dreams (nightmares), typically, take place in darker surroundings, regardless of the details of the dream as they relate to the particular mind or subconscious of the dreamer, an idea explored in great detail by both Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung. But this dark dream is no dream darkness. He holds his breath and hears the soft thud and scrape of something, some thing beyond behind between before and he waits, but it doesn't come, soft-soled and waiting and wanting, there is only the dark. He tries to slow his breath, his heartbeat through force of will alone, and it's everything he has to keep from running, a bad idea on treacherous and unknown terrain, for as fast as he is in the absence of terra firma he will fall, regardless of whether or not he notices the void below.1 But though he listens a long moment after Billy speaks the sound ceases, leaving his surroundings empty save for the grotesque images that populate a young mind drenched in adrenaline.
1 cf. Soup or Sonic, Warner Brothers. 21 May 1980.
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of what he hears, scratching and scrabbling in the dark. No, but perhaps that is merely a figment of his imagination, something conjured by the darkness. The worst dreams (nightmares), typically, take place in darker surroundings, regardless of the details of the dream as they relate to the particular mind or subconscious of the dreamer, an idea explored in great detail by both Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung. But this dark dream is no dream darkness. He holds his breath and hears the soft thud and scrape of something, some thing beyond behind between before and he waits, but it doesn't come, soft-soled and waiting and wanting, there is only the dark. He tries to slow his breath, his heartbeat through force of will alone, and it's everything he has to keep from running, a bad idea on treacherous and unknown terrain, for as fast as he is in the absence of terra firma he will fall, regardless of whether or not he notices the void below.1But though he listens a long moment after Billy speaks the sound ceases, leaving his surroundings empty save for the grotesque images that populate a young mind drenched in adrenaline.
1 cf. Soup or Sonic, Warner Brothers. 21 May 1980.