"Even then, something begins faith--a memory of a reality or of an experience that doesn't quite fit with everything else, the longing a soul has to find its shape in the world."
-- Nora Gallagher, "Things Seen and Unseen"

This would seem to fit what I recently experienced--the deep feeling of nostalgia for my childhood upon watching one of Miyazaki's films. Is this the "longing a soul has to find its shape in the world"? I believe it is--though at the cusp one can direct this energy to either destructive or constructive ends. The easy and unsatisfying course is to channel it into a celebration of the past--expending energy to recall and relive past memories and events. A better way is to turn it on its head and ask: What memories, what moments can I make *now*? Instead of living in a dream world, we make the present world into a dream--we steer reality towards what we would have it be.