Codex Somniorum
A short investigation into a dream neologism
My dreams almost never have any magical or supernatural quality to them — on the contrary, they usually involve the most unremarkably mundane and everyday situations. I listen with fascination, and some envy, when my friends narrate oneiric adventures like flying around or talking to animals.
But what my dreams lack in imagination they make up for in one specific quality: their ability to produce completely new words, neologisms which invariably show themselves to have deep meaning and significance.
In a previous article, I explored three of these neologisms and gave precursory interpretations for them. Today, I want to share one more particularly striking neologism.
The dream
I find myself browsing Wiktionary, and suddenly I decide to look up words related to my first name. I find a psychological condition, whose name I’ve since forgotten, and clicking on it takes me to a Wikipedia article on ‘sindentia’.
Reading the article, I learn that sindentia is a term that describes those aspects of a person’s appearance that are the most immediately recognizable to others. The two examples given were bushy eyebrows and a beauty mark on the face.
