Balancing

"Say you have a dream." He spoke earnestly. "In that dream you know that you are dreaming. If you become too aware you are dreaming, you wake up. But if you are just enough aware, you can influence your dream."
"So that's balancing?"
"Pretty much."
He breathed out, relieved and empty. She thought for a while.
"And what is it," she asked, at last, "when you fall?"
Cyprian caught his breath back, almost despaired, but again -- because, in spite of who he was, he loved Delphine -- he dug for an answer. It took so long that Delphine almost fell asleep, but his mind was working furiously, shedding blue sparks.
"When you fall," he said, startling her awake, "you must forget that you exist. Strike the ground as a shadow strikes the ground. Weightless."
"I think I'll leave you," said Delphine.
"Please don't leave me," said Cyprian.
And so they lay balanced on that great wide bed. [28]

Erdrich, Louise. The Master Butchers Singing Club. Harper Perennial, 2005. ISBN: 0060837055.