u/Chef_Lovecraft

BORGES: I have a nightmare almost every night. I had one this morning. But it wasn't a real nightmare [...] I found myself in a very large building. It was a brick building. Many empty rooms. Large empty rooms. Brick rooms. Then I went from one to the other, and there seemed to be no doors. I was always finding my way into courtyards. Then after a time I was going up and down, I was calling out, and there was nobody. That large and unimaginative building was empty, and I said to myself: Why, of course, this is the dream of the maze. So I won't find any door, so I'll just have to sit down in one of the rooms and wait. And sometimes I wake up. And that actually happened. When I realized it and said, this is the nightmare of the maze, and since I knew all about it, I wasn't taken in by the maze. I merely sat down on the floor [...] I waited a moment and woke up.

--Interview, March 1976, Indiana University ("Borges at 80 - Conversations")