The Dream Project
Dreams
are wonderful, magical things. I have thought a great deal about dreams of
late. My next book is “The Dream State”:
“Between sleep and wake, I enter the dream
state. It is in the dream state that I often have my highest level of
creativity, receive the most inspiration. Thoughts, ideas, concepts, words,
phrases enter my mind, in a whirlwind of activity.”
I
receive the most wonderful thoughts, ideas, inspiration while in the dream
state. I ponder whether my subconscious mind is creating these thoughts, or if
I am being given the thoughts and dreams from an outside source. I wonder if
Calliope, the muse of poetry, comes to me in the dream state, filling my head
with thoughts and ideas.
As is
often the case, I cannot remember a great deal of my thoughts and ideas once I
wake. It’s like trying to hold a sand castle in your hands; try as you might, the sand slips
through your fingers.
On my
birthday this year, I was given a dream journal. I keep the book on my bedside
table, with a pen at the ready.
It is a
common thing among artists and creative people, to keep a notebook on their bedside
table to write down thoughts and inspiration. Composers write music in their
sleep. Filmmakers make movies in their sleep. Writers write in our dreams. Here
is a video clip of Paul McCartney explaining how he wrote “Yesterday” in a
dream…
To
date, I have only written down one dream in the journal. In thinking on it, I
wake several times a night; perhaps I need to write down the dreams as soon as
I have dreamt them, while they are fresh in my mind.
I will
continue to work within the pages of this journal, to fill it with my dreams. I
will give myself a year at the outset, to allow myself ample time for writing.
It
should prove fascinating, to read about the adventures of my psyche while in
slumber.
I wonder what universes I will explore, what alternate dimensions I
will visit, what different levels my subconscious will travel through.
I look
forward to the future, to reading the dreams contained within the journal. If
they are of any interest, I will publish them for the world to read. They will
be gathered and presented in literary form, in a work known as “The Dream
Project.”
“Dreams
are as simple or as complicated as the dreamer.”-Brian Herbert
“Astral
Voyage” by Josephine Wall
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