The answers came in a dream: the meaning of life; the purpose of life; how it all began; why it all began.
He awoke with a start, nudged his wife awake.
“What is it? Darling, tell me.”
He wanted to tell. He was desperate to tell. But language failed him.
David Lowis is tall and writes mostly short stories.
This is a phenomenon known as Presque vu from French, meaning “almost seen” and is the intense feeling of being on the very brink of a powerful epiphany, insight, or revelation, without actually achieving the revelation.