"And to tell you the whole truth, sometimes I’m not even certain it’s my own dream. No, you didn’t mishear. I’m not sure if it’s my dream or, or if someone else is dreaming me. Who? I don’t know. If I did …
I remember my grandmother used to say that you don’t always dream your own dreams. For instance you can dream the dreams of the dead, that they didn’t manage to dream in their lifetime. Or the dreams of people who haven’t yet come into the world. Not to mention that according to my grandmother dreams can sometimes pass from person to person, house to house, village to village, town to town and so on. Sometimes they can even get lost."
「..而且要說出全部的真相，有時候我甚至不確定這是不是我自己的夢。不是，你沒有聽錯。我不確定這是我的夢，還是……還是有人在夢見我。誰？我不知道。如果我知道的話……
我記得我的祖母常說，你並不總是夢見自己的夢。比如說，你可能會夢到死者的夢——那些他們在生前沒能夢到的夢。或者夢到那些尚未來到這個世界之人的夢。更不用說，根據祖母的說法，夢有時候會在人與人之間、房屋與房屋之間、村莊與村莊之間、城鎮與城鎮之間流轉。甚至有時候，它們還會迷失。」
- 維斯瓦夫‧梅斯利夫斯基《剝豆論》 (Treatise on Shelling Beans)
