The unfinished diary.

• Author: Grullon, Virgilio Diaz
• Position: Short story - Latitudes

He had always prided himself on having a scientific mind, immune to any outside pressure that might try to change his strictly empirical concept of the universe. During his adolescence, he had flirted now and then with Freud's theories on the interpretation of dreams; but the impossibility of confirming the master's ideas through experience soon made him lose interest in such theories. As a result, the first dream about a space ship did not seem particularly important, and by morning he had forgotten the details of the dream. But when the same thing happened again the next night, his interest was aroused and he tried--with some success--to reconstruct the details in writing. According to those notes, in that first dream he saw himself in the middle of a desert, sensing that something very important was about to happen, but unable to pinpoint exactly what inspired that anxious anticipation. Starting on the third night, the dream became recurrent, with a strange twist: an additional episode was tacked on at the end of each rerun, like the serials he used to see in his youth. From then on, he kept a sort of diary, and every morning he would describe the scenes from the previous night's dream. By rereading these notes--which became easier to write every day, since the dream was increasingly clear and its details easier to...