in the midst of his perilous journey, kino looks into the pearl "his vision" but the pearl reflects only nightmares. what does each nightmare reveal about what has happened to kino?

Everything that has happened since finding the Pearl has been bad, it has been one long nightmare. Kino feels separated from everything he knew and loved. He no longer hears the gentle song of the family. He feels isolated from his wife, from his child, from his neighbours and from himself. The loss of his child, Kino's ultimate pearl, is a nightmare that will never go away.