#other selves

I kept thinking: what I have just written didn't come from me. *I* could write a thesis, but the texts I wrote were never mine. For a long time I lived in a state of serious uncertainty - sometimes I even told myself I shouldn't sign my name. Or else I felt great uneasiness when people talked to me about the texts "I" had written. They think it is me, but I only copy the other, it is dictated; and I don't know who the other is. In the same way that we don't govern our dreams, although I knew it was "the other" who arrived, I was never sure that "the other" would arrive.

Mystery-cult contributed to the development of drama something that, though we take it for granted, is in pre-dramatic societies very rare (outside ritual), namely the practice of abandoning your everyday identity to perform in a completely new one.

Most readers will probably remember the surprise they experienced the first time they heard their recorded voices played back; similar surprises and revelations await the dreamer who uses a tape recorder to record his/her dreams when the machine gives back the startlingly different, multiple voices of the subpersonalities that surfaced from deep sleep.

Each of our "subpersonalities" tends to speak in a different and unique voice in the midst of sleep, and using a tape recorder to capture elusive dream memories [when waking up briefly in the middle of the night] often allows us to actually *hear* parts of ourselves that we were not consciously aware of. Most readers will probably remember the surprise they experienced the first time they heard their recorded voices played back; similar surprises and revelations await the dreamer who uses a tape recorder to record his/her dreams when the machine gives back the startlingly different, multiple voices of the subpersonalities that surfaced from deep sleep.