It (the talking, the telling) seemed (to him, to Quentin) to partake of that logic-and reason-flouting quality of a dream which the sleeper knows must have occurred, stillborn and complete, in a second, yet the very quality upon which it must depend to move the dreamer (verisimilitude) to credulity—horror or pleasure or amazement—depends as completely upon a formal recognition of elapsed and yet-elapsing time as music or a printed tale.
William Faulkner in Absalom, Absalom!  on the static ‘movement’ of time in dreams.

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