Reverie

Summary

Dominique Pagani considers reverie a precise term, despite its vague air. He defines it as a middle term between waking and sleep, an altered state that is not yet true dreaming1. In his view, this intermediate state combines the functions of thought and those of the dream, those of directing thought and those of directed consciousness2. In a Musicosophie session, he specifies that reverie reaches its intensity when there is nothing left to see. It is then a drowsiness, neither sleep nor waking3. The rhythm of the waters stands in for the inner movement that reverie extinguishes and makes one feel existence without any need to think4. He also relates it to the lullaby: in this state between waking and sleep, discourse fades into a continuous movement close to music5. He thus links reverie to the question of what is properly musical.

1. 1R for Reverie1 Jan 2015 · 3:43
2. 2R for Reverie1 Jan 2015 · 7:42
3. 3#18 What is musical in music25 Mar 2021 · 58:23
4. 4#18 What is musical in music25 Mar 2021 · 1:00:16
5. 5Left-washing: are the woke the most asleep?17 Nov 2021 · 1:00:32

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