The narrative of the dream is more than an abstraction or the random firing of visual neurons during sleep. -- The dream is something which defies both logical understanding and our estimation of anything else considered "real"... It derives from suggestion, and it derives from the inner personal psyche itself -- from passion, suffering, or confusion...

The "allegory" is a story or fable which instructs our understanding of the workings of the physical world, or reveals the inner meaning of our own intentions, which the complexity of our process of actions had caused us to forget.

The narrative of a dream can combine both the recollection of a memory and an event or wish long forgotten : It is desire. It is the unknown. The dream taps upon the full range of all the emotions ever felt in one's life of experiences. Within the dream can be the presence of a living lover, or the presence or ghost of an ancestor, friend -- or a descendant not yet to be born for centuries.

The allegory of the dream does not follow the sequence of Time, but the sequence of MEANING.
It's layers are the strata of memory and the embedded experiences of personal meaning, hidden deep in layers of solid earth where they are irrigated by subterreanean rivers.

The precedents of this amorphous mosaic form of writing are the Epic poem, the early medieval Chronicles, the sonnets of the 17th century Metaphysical Poets, the 19th century French Prose-Poems,
and the free verse of the Beats.

In visual art, its equivalents are the mythological allegory, the figurative abstract painting, the figurative landscape, and the early landscape engravings which are the lasting immediate views of the old world before the arrival of photography.

The narrative is history. Like the encoded sequence found within the chromosome strands of DNA,
the narrative contains the failures and defeats of all that human history has attempted -- as well as
the fulfillment of everything ever hoped would fulfill the human race and all of life -- all its forms, shapes, arrival and departures.

The potential of the dream is the same as the transformation of even inanimate stone into the
fineness of sparkling Light -- the mystery of the animation of Matter.

The dream is the Rain which falls from the sky, it is the tear which slides down the cheek.
It is what it is not. It suggests what will soon be, and it displays what once might have happened,
but now will never come to be.

This narrative is the story of a young person trying to find his way back from a world over
the precipice -- In the aftermath of a global upheaval, Janos Hauberc picks his way through
the rubble of cities, through the romantic dreams of his youth, through the dirt paths of childhood landscapes --

Awakening in a state of amnesia, Hauberc thinks the broken military weapon he finds at his side to be a child’s toy. He may be a child of the Cold War, fantasizing the adult intrigues of espionage – or he may be a soldier lost in the images of a nuclear Inferno, lost in the images of his home which he may never see or find again...

Left abandoned in the ruins of a medieval town, Janos perceives himself in the backyard of his childhood, near a place called "Paradise Green." As the emotional scenes of his life unravel, he begins to piece together the part his own covert actions have played in the unleashing of these destructive nightmare forces.

In a visual language suggested by the circles of Dante and the art of the Surrealists, the narrative is an allegory of the universal experience of our era : of ideals, ideologies, and moral dilemmas. Portents of dreams explore the absurdities and ambiguities of meaning,
the fear of alienation and "aliens," and the difficulties of family relations.

As Hauberc emerges from his hiding place and his traumatized visions, a purgatorial
journey of diplomacy is required of him for the survival of those who remain alive.
Cycles of the sky and the heavens give their metaphorical names to each step of the
story: "Ancient Sky," "Deluge," "Conflagration," "Zenith," and "Nadir".

The fires are the fires of global apocalypse, the fires of memory, the fires of intended
passion, the fires of alchemical and psychic transformation...