Rose and the daydream
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I wish I could remember my dreams more often. I wish the damn things wouldn’t go in one ear and straight out the other. Who plants them and why? And how come the few I recall are like tiny portions of an indie blockbuster, minus the credible acting and the killer plot twists. Sigh. Life is like a dream sometimes. And then you wake up. [illustration by Sam Weber]
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Illusive Mind Friday 22 June 2007
Try setting your an alarm an hour or an hour and a half early, when it wakes you just turn it off and go back to sleep. If you haven’t woken up too much you should fall back into REM quite quickly and then when you wake in an hour you will be wrenched straight out of it.
That’s when memories of your dream are stored in your short term memory and you have to consciously go through them and actively remember them or they will be gone by the time you have your corn flakes. Keeping a dream journal is one way to encourage this.
Belle Sunday 24 June 2007
Most of the time I remember my dreams, I always tell my partner about them as well as type them into my phone if there is no pen around because I usually get some great design ideas from them! I had a dream once about going into a ‘font shop’ where you could view fonts in books and then buy them – instead of only on line. I t was great, especially when I realised that all the font designs were MINE! fwaor!!
Kal Tuesday 20 May 2008
Honestly, I don’t mind not remembering my dreams. It’s certainly nice when I can recall the musings of my subconscious, but at the same time, not remembering the dreams keeps those ideas from festering within the fetters of a single narrative, instead they become individualized, broken down and remixed until they become as a painter’s ever expanding palette, prepared to create new concoctions for the night ahead. Maybe I’m just superstitious, but I feel like forgetting a dream allows it to mutate, and by process of natural selection, become some new form of reality that was previously impossible.