16 April 1905 (10): “In this world, time is like the flow of water, occasionally displaced by a bit of debris, a passing breeze.”

In this dream, people can be transported from the future to the past (or present depending). The narrator depicts these people in a state of continual anxiety, timidness, and, in effect, exile. However these people are exiled by their own volition. They choose to hide and never speak. They spend there time in avoidance of any possible impression on time they might make, though they should be speak out for their knowledge of the future, the diasters and fortunes yet to come. This arises from the fact the do not want to change the good of the future, inhibiting events necessary for world order from happening. They have lost their personhood because, in their situation, they no longer can behave as humans. They musn’t lie on the wrong piece of grass, swat the wrong mosquito, step on the wrong stone – or God forbid talk to someone, if they do not wish to throw the future into chaos and anarchy. We do not seek them out because we do not know they are there. They arrive unexpceted in a trickle of the water of time. When they arrive they are frightenned and have no one to go to. They enter the past alone, and they become lone for the rest of their future. If we could predict the arrival of these people, or could even find them for their social invisiblity, we would certainly use them for gain. We would make them predict the future, and with their knowledge we would change the future. And so the people lost in the river of time live a life of terror and transparency. They do not want to change the future for the worse. But they do not wish to admit they know the future for the better either, as they would run the risk of being interrogated for corrupt gain. It would be a rough life.

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