If someone said 'dreams' what would you think?

[Stra_Mag]

Hi, I'm new to the forum and I am an art student who is doing 'Dreams' as a project, where we need to produce a piece based of thoughts and dreams.

Therefore, basically, I just want you to give me ideas about what you think about if someone said dreams. For example:

atmosphere (sunrise, sunset, midnight, moon)
religion (gods/goddesses)
artist works that remind you of dreams (Josephine Wall)
music (piano, violin)
fantasy (fairies, elves)
nature (forest, sea)
loved objects (necklace, friends, family)

Get the idea? Basically it is a mind map of all to do with dreams, it can be as broad as you like! ^^ Thank you.

[Stra_Mag]

For example, look at this:



Is there anything you think I should add?

[Jennings]

Your idea sounds fatuous and pointless, at least, in the direction you are taking the subject. It sounds as if you are simply trying to find sufficient words to complete an essay. Let's say, for example, you get 500 words; or a 1000, or 2000, then you categorise them, so what; the exercise is totally meaningless!

[Stra_Mag]

It may seem so, but it is a mind map. In more detail, what I need to do is get ideas for an 'ART' project not an English essay, I wouldn't need an essay in Art.

Anyway, we need to do direct observational drawings; having the things in front of you, this means that I will need to find things to draw which relate to dreams, ie, idols of a god(dess), a necklace from your grandparents etc, and I just wanted to see what other people think of when people say 'dreams'.

This sounds quite hard, but to me, dreams are also like illusions and so I went out today and took photos, looking up into trees, getting close to plants, even looking into foxglove flowers, all of these are inspiration.

'Dreams' could also refer to a desire, like no war or that a loved pet would live on forever or even come back to life if deceased.

I was plainly asking for what others think, not collecting a vocabulary list for an essay.

[mythopoet]

Hi-

With the sound of 'dreams' I can think through the word used: as a verb; as a noun. I can think it a command with both operating at once. I can think both/and which next opens a space for images dreaming themselves to appear.

The word-symbol 'tree' dreams and the dreams at once appear to the mind in images. Every word possesses its own soul and 'dreams' through the image it is. Just as 'tree' dreams, it holds the memory of trees in psychic space. It does both things; both at once. The space where tree images work works what images want making objects of us as well as subjects observing the dream.

So I can think of the tree and let the tree dream...as well as think about how I dream the tree. The tree will show me how it sees the grass and the grass will show me how it sees the tree. The grass sees the tree very differently from the way I see the tree The trilogy forms a communal soul.

By turning such event over into an experienced experience I can recognize my life is not this steeply sloping hour but that all this stands behind it just as I stand before it knowing what I will know which includes this. "I" is only one (of many ones) who dreams reality. I is no longer a priveleged dreamer.

One more idea.

When "I" thought the word 'dreams' just now taking me into 'dreams' soul life, I thought the word 'underworld' and I thought 'images of the unconscious'. These terms bring up the general category 'depth' and 'psychology' but also 'myth' and 'archetypal expressionism'.


Blessings,
mythopoet

[Stra_Mag]

Thank you, I feel a deep connection with trees as well, if I think of the word 'dreams' I would immediately think of a forest lit up by moonlight. I would feel the cold breezes, but not actually feel too cold to stay there.

[DreamFiGer]

I don't know what this says about my mind or disposition, but I think of adjectives first, like in my case, bizarre, extraordinary, nuts, hilarious, vivid, dark, light etc.

My dreams tend to be amazingly strange.

I'm not an art major, can you put adjectives or adverbs in a mind map about dreams?

[Jennings]

Stra_Mag, why use the term 'dream' rather than say 'desire' which seems from what you say, more appropriate to your remit?

[mythopoet]

Hi-

Your reflection brought Solar Music, 1955 by Remedios Varo to mind. There is a turning of this inspired work that re minds how what is not fate nor destiny in our psyche, when lit by the inspiration, will begin to draw upon its own depths for what to do. This is knowing when you are off the beam or on it creatively. When you are "on", images that are real images of the imagination and not flights of desire nor egoic fancy appear to the mind.

This beam is himeros (desire), the double of eros that will most draw the soul to respond in kind; artists make from here.

Now here is a link to the turning I'm thinking of which is of the Grail quest in this heroine kind that is the work of artist Remedios Varo Arthurian Legends Illustrated: Part VI

I really like your 'dark moonlit tree that is warm' image.

Blessings,
mythopoet

[mythopoet]

Hi, Dream-

I am not an art major either but I think an adjectival response is a depth response, a very loving response to the nature of "dreams".

Bless,
mythopoet