SubscribeJuly 18th, 2009
I dream of ATP
I dream of adenosine triphosphate (ATP). Not often nor in any great detail, ATP (a high energy macromolecule essential to every living thing on the planet because it is our “energy currency”) winds its way through my dreams like a three-stranded woven cord, sometimes just itself on a dark background of a nearly empty dream and sometimes it comes across the stage of a dream in progress, taking the shape of something else. Last time it was a large black cat, a panther I suppose, from its size and disposition. When something like that happens, some intrusion of image or content, I stop staring at the dream unfolding and I look in surprise—this time at the molecule/cat unwinding itself across the field of my dream vision. I know in the dream it is ATP and at the same time it is a cat and the surprise of that wakes me in the dream to the fact that I am dreaming.
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