The Hypnagogic Circus

The Hypnagogic Circus and Other Cosmic Distortions
A Surreal Epic in Five Movements

What if the strangest thing about reality isn't how little we know, but how much we've forgotten?

Step beyond the threshold of ordinary perception and enter a world where dream and waking blur, where memory becomes architecture, and where consciousness bends back upon itself in playful acts of cosmic self-discovery.

Across five interconnected movements, The Hypnagogic Circus and Other Cosmic Distortions explores the hidden landscapes that exist between thought and observer, identity and dissolution, imagination and remembrance. Here, astral marionettes dance through velvet corridors, circus tents glow on the horizon of the mind, teletext portals open into forgotten decades, and the infinite peers back through the smallest moments of everyday life.

Blending metaphysical reflection, philosophical inquiry, surreal humour and visionary poetry, Dean Durrant invites readers into a literary journey that is at once profound, absurd, playful and deeply human.

This is not a book of answers.

It is a book of mirrors.

A book of corridors.

A book of thresholds.

A companion for wanderers of the inner worlds, dreamers of impossible landscapes, and seekers who suspect there may be something staring back from the other side of thought.

If you've ever questioned reality, laughed at the mystery, or felt that consciousness is far stranger than it appears...

Welcome to the circus.