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Meaning
The quote says that dreams are personal creations shaped by the person who dreams them. It suggests that each person has unique hidden layers and complications to understand within their own dreams.
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Source
The Shaking Woman or A History of My Nerves: 'An extraordinary double story' - Oliver Sacks (2010)
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The phrase appears in the book "The Shaking Woman or A History of My Nerves: 'An extraordinary double story' - Oliver Sacks (2010)" by Siri Hustvedt (Google Books snippet); no earlier source was checked.
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About Siri Hustvedt
American novelist and essayist
Siri Hustvedt is an American novelist and essayist known for her wide-ranging prose across fiction and nonfiction. She is the author of a book of poetry, seven novels, two books of essays, and several works of nonfiction. Her books include The Blindfold, The Enchantment of Lily Dahl, What I Loved, A Plea for Eros, The Sorrows of an American, The Shaking Woman or A History of My Nerves, The Summer Without Men, Living, Thinking, Looking, The Blazing World, Memories of the Future, and Ghost Stories. What I Loved is the book for which she is best known, and What I Loved and The Summer Without Men were international bestsellers. Her work has been translated into more than thirty languages.
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