Funnel-Shaped Dreams

Here is another warning about becoming obsessed with a dream.This writer uses the metaphor of a tornado to tell her readers that an intensely moving dream can easily pull a dreamer into its orbit.

Funnel-Shaped Dreams

During the afternoon of 12 July, 1848

there appeared dreams

resembling whirlpools*

They were not ordinary visions.

The centres of the columns changed

owing to violent writhing.

Only a little song fell from any of them, and still

they pulled in listeners.

*These were nearer than I ever before saw

Source text: The Ocean by Jordan, William Leighton  Publication date 1885.