How can one speak about dreams without extinguishing the "peculiar eloquence" from which their fascination arises? Durs Grünbein has found a form for this: a form in which the science of dreaming, with all its complexity, is preserved, while simultaneously revealing the aesthetic potential of dreams in all its fullness. Here, dream-thinking and dream-poetry can merge into a unique language, a "word at the threshold" that explores the diverse boundaries, transitions, and overlaps between sleeping and waking, dreaming and inventing, remembering and narrating.