Parallel to his career as one of the Caribbeans foremost literary and cultural critics, famed for his meticulous documentation of the relationship between art and social reality, Gordon Rohlehr has also been documenting his inner dreaming life. In doing this, he reveals both himself and the undertones of Caribbean social and political life. We discover there is not one Rohlehr, but three: Daniel the dreamer, Frederick the evader and Gordon, who tries to hold the ring between these personae. In the dreams that pass through Daniel, there are not merely vivid representation of the kinds of images that Freud suggested were in some way universal, but narratives that go to the heart of the Caribbean being in the counterflows between Africa and Europe and the freedom of the folk imagination meeting the buttoned-up closure of the respectable elite.