Discuss how the motif of dreams appears within the unnamed narrator's vignettes.

One example of the dream motif's appearance occurs in the vignette “Three Hundred Kilometers," when the narrator dreams that she is looking from a bird’s eye view “at cities splayed out across valleys” (212). She envisions these cities as the trunks of felled redwoods or gingkoes and attempts to calculate the height of the amputated trees. In her dream, she reasons that the trees must have been 300 kilometers high, demonstrating the way in which dreams can stretch and warp physical reality.