A folded quilt bed with a small paper ship floating above the pillow, in indigo and apricot colours.

Original artwork, not a still

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

What if you slept, and what if in your sleep you

Behind the line

What it means

Our interpretation.

The fragment opens a chain of imagined possibilities beginning with sleep. It leaves the dream itself unstated rather than giving an answer to the repeated what-if.

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