In 1901 the philosopher and writer Henry Bergson explained in his short essay “The World of Dreams”, that when we fall into a natural sleep we should not think, as some people sometimes imagine, that our senses are shut off from external impressions. Our senses continue to work.

Bergson called dreams the direct link between sensation and remembrance. His studies on duration and motion had provided him with a broad basis for his theory. With characteristic restraint and insight, he surmised that while our dreams are built around what we have seen, said, desired, or done, their elaboration depends on memory images collected and preserved from earliest childhood in "the innermost depths of the unconscious".

My camera cannot photograph my dreams, but many of my images were inspired by the weight of my memories.