Last night I dreamed that Virginia Woolf wrote a set of four novels, referred to as companion novels, that all depicted the same set of events from the perspectives of four different people. Two of them were titled Virginia and Ophelia. I cannot remember the titles of the other two books. Within the dream, my father remarked that the first scene was very accurate between the four books.

Have you been reading about or studying Virginia Woolf recently?

Does anything about Virginia Woolf, or the books you read about in your dream, seem to have anything to do with your life?

No, I've never read any of Virginia Woolf's works, though at one time I read a plot synopsis of her Orlando. That's pretty much the only thing that I know about her.

I've got to say though, and perhaps I should have mentioned this before, that upon waking, the four novels concept immediately brought to mind the four Christian gospels. The fact that my dad commented on the books is interesting because within the past five years or so I renounced my Christian beliefs, and my parents were none too pleased about it. I don't know where the name Ophelia might have come from.

In interpretations of Hamlet, the role of Ophelia is often associated with loss of innocence.

Could that have anything to do with it?

Sort of. Loss of innocence if you mean naivety. In that I no longer believe in the Christian viewpoint of sin, I kind of feel as though I am potentially more innocent now than I used to consider myself.

Though I suspect my father might see me as having lost my innocence. Perhaps it has something to do with how I believe my father sees me now.

That sounds like a good take on it.