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Ever had a dream where you died? What if it was the other way around? An Occurance at Owl Creek Bridge is a pretty short story, but a very influential one. As a man hangs for treason, he imagines an escape and return back to his family. The slip from reality to dream is seamless, making it all the more jarring and eerie when reality snaps back. The way every little detail during the escape is heightened has a disturbing familiarity to me and the dreams I can remember. I'm not sure whether it's a beautiful or deeply unsettling thought that the mind will create the most fantastic delusions to protect itself from the thought of confronting death, and the story is wise enough to leave that question unanswered.
Ever had a dream where you died? What if it was the other way around? An Occurance at Owl Creek Bridge is a pretty short story, but a very influential one. As a man hangs for treason, he imagines an escape and return back to his family. The slip from reality to dream is seamless, making it all the more jarring and eerie when reality snaps back. The way every little detail during the escape is heightened has a disturbing familiarity to me and the dreams I can remember. I'm not sure whether it's a beautiful or deeply unsettling thought that the mind will create the most fantastic delusions to protect itself from the thought of confronting death, and the story is wise enough to leave that question unanswered.