Encourages participants to change their relationship to their own thoughts, feelings, and body sensations, so that they have an opportunity to discover that these are
fleeting events in the mind and the body which they can choose to engage with — or not
What makes it nightmarish isn't so much its premise — a man set loose inside the
mind and writings of a crazed hack novelist — as the many elliptical details that the premise occasions: things that go bump
in the head,
fleeting suggestions of horrors that brush the edge of our attention and perceptions, like the peripheral
events in bad dreams.