What do you do with something when you are in love with it? 'Love is expressed,' proposed the psychoanalyst Wilfred Bion, 'by reverie.' Reverie is a way of holding something in your mind, caressing it, so to speak, with a succession of thoughts. Imagine you are enjoying being at home on a Novermber night and you are struck by a sense of loving your warm comfortable sitting room. It is nice to think of the cold, wet window behind the cutains' this contrastive, imagined sensation bolsters the appreciation of the comfort inside. Reverie makes the present moment richer. But the thought may contain an expansive impulse: beyond the window the dark leaves of the trees in the street are glistening' the lamps catch strings of raindrops; the gutters become like dark streams. The thought expands to flesh-out the initial vague sense of the world outside the window.
— John Armstrong, Move Closer