I sometimes consider that certain events in dreams
are not symbols,
but may be realities of another dimension.
This understanding came not from interpretation,
but from direct experience.
One day in a dream,
I was crouching on the ground,
laughing and playing
with a small white rabbit and a puppy.
In that moment,
we did not perceive one another as different beings.
The distinction between human and animal
did not exist there.
Then,
a middle-aged man appeared in the distance,
walking toward us.
He looked ordinary,
nothing about him seemed remarkable.
Yet as he approached,
something began to rise
from the deeper layers of his presence.
It appeared as tangled strands of energy
woven around him.
Thousands of thin lines
were twisted in sharp, irregular patterns,
forming a structure in themselves.
That structure resembled
an informational system of existence,
where emotions, tendencies, choices,
memories, and actions
were revealed as waves.
The structure of a being
who had lived gently and peacefully
was organically aligned,
composed mainly of curves,
forming a coherent whole.
In contrast,
the structure of a being
shaped by cruelty and anger
was jagged and strained,
its edges turned outward,
as if its inner violence
had broken through the surface.
The man’s structure belonged to the latter.
At the same moment,
the rabbit, the puppy, and I
read his information.
It reached my consciousness
faster than light,
all at once.
Like a compressed executable file
that unfolds instantly when opened,
his personality,
repetitive emotional patterns,
behavioral trajectories,
degree of cruelty,
the way he treated humans and animals,
even his habits of living,
were perceived simultaneously
as a single pattern.
In that instant,
the rabbit, the puppy, and I
screamed and trembled together.
Then I woke from the dream.
Even after opening my eyes,
it took a long time
to steady my breath.
After that day,
though never as clearly as in dreams,
I began to partially perceive
the informational structures of people
even in waking life.
Through this experience,
I realized that the world can be perceived
through means beyond the physical senses.
Yet it was a perception
I wished to dull,
even intentionally.
The resonance of emotions contained
within another’s information
brought profound exhaustion.