the house protects the dreamer

"If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters daydreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.” -- Gaston Bachelard, in The Poetics of Space.

As a daydreamer, I felt the inside-outside dichotomy was too confining. I wanted to dismiss the notion that one had to be either ‘inside’ or ‘outside’. I wanted to be both at the same time.