Archive for 'Dreams'

Solve et Coagula (John Dotson’s dream of October 30, 2013)

I’m involved in elaborate travels for the purposes of creativity. A group of folks who work together—I am one—are traveling the world over. We are forming and unforming and reforming. Solve et Coagula (“dissolve” and “coagulate,” the motto of alchemy). I am at a security clearance portal when I become aware that I have been […]

Ambiguities, Changes, and Slippery Slopes (John Dotson’s dream of August 6, 2013)

I’m in a doctor’s office for my physical examination. The chair is a dentist’s chair. The doctor appears and is radically transgender—that is, it is impossible for me to discern whether he is female or she is male. I feel a strong empathy between us. Through all the conversation, it becomes clear that this doctor […]

Metamorphosis (John Dotson’s dream of May 17, 2013)

Many locales and activities…passageways, rooms, events, texts… At some point in the dream, I am at the home of my grandsons, something of an outpost, near a high-country trail that I know and love to hike and have recently traversed… Meanwhile, back at my house, I have somehow missed my appointed task of setting out […]

Absorbed in Production (John Dotson’s dream of March 14, 2013)

I’m absorbed in production on a large scale. Very active. Lots of energy. At one point, a young and very self-possessing male—quite pronouncedly dressed with an accomplished pompadour, young but also not so young, rather, non-aged, perennial—places himself in a chair before me and we start to talk. I become aware that I am the […]

Sacred Oils (John Dotson’s dream of January 30, 2013)

I’m in a large church. There are a few others, most of whom I know, scattered around this large space. They are gathered for a special observance for a long-deceased individual, an intimate friend whose life was and continues to be interwoven with mine. I have no feeling of morbidity but rather of an active […]

Great Wheel Dream (John Dotson’s dream of January 10, 2013)

An extended, serpentine, highly detailed and life-like circumambulatory odyssey… I am amongst people that, largely, I know; I know the circle at large; I feel the strength of a larger circle that holds all the people, everyone who is involved whether they are visible or invisible. Each person has a distinct orientation to this progressive […]

Dream Dodge (John Dotson’s dream of December 17, 2012)

I’m at a conference of some sort at a hotel in a city. I become involved with “a new car,” and from time to time there is ambiguity about whether the car is mine, or about to be mine, or whether I will succeed at getting a woman  colleague who is attending the conference to […]

Artistry of Illusion (John Dotson’s dream of December 11, 2012)

I’m in Tennessee and inside the K.s’ garage, where we used to play. It is breakfast time. I (as an adult) am having a bright and early morning beer in a bottle, a Corona. Looking through the window I spot Mother standing on the back porch of the K.s’ house (a very unusual place for […]

Community (John Dotson’s dream of December 2, 2012)

I’m involved with a production and we have wrapped it up. There is a gathering to celebrate. It is clear that there are tensions in the group, but not clear what they are about — except that they concern the group’s process in a deep way. The whole process has been deeply engaging and lives […]

Integral Orchestrations (John Dotson’s dream of October 14, 2012)

I am at the school and am fully engaged. I have full access to the facilities, the Science Building. I feel the wholeness of all my endeavors. I’m working with a variety of events and happenings: classes, labs, convergences, groups. There are not too many people all together, but many activities. I am racing around, […]