Dreamside (33 page)

I wrote
Dreamside
before I became a father.
 
The arrival of children easily confirmed for me the existence of
telepathy.
 
Any mother who has sat down
to dinner only to hear – as if on cue - her baby in the next room wake up and
cry will authenticate this.
 
You feed, I
feed.
 
It’s so blindingly obvious a
feature of human behaviour that I can’t understand why the
dalek
side of us human beings resists an acceptance of these things.
 
Perhaps there is an evolutionary danger in
paying the group-mind too much attention.
 
But as soon as you enter into family life you find it demonstrated over
and over.

Dreamside
explores this idea of group mind.
 
If the
three levels of consciousness are waking, sleeping and dreaming, it operates in
a fourth corridor.
 
It represents my
first fictional visit to the fourth corridor and although my subsequent novels have
been – for good or ill – all rather different, the common thread is the one
that runs through this labyrinthine corridor and finds its way into many
different chambers.
 
I hope you enjoyed finding
your way in; and that that something in this
afterword
will also bring you back.

Graham Joyce November 2012