Dream to Dream
This page is devoted to a dialogue carried out through the medium of dreams. Dreams can be shared here, along with responses that take the form of other dreams, related images, associations, and/or poetry. In responding associatively, you might want to offer visual images, sounds, or music that could be embedded in your post or accessed through hyperlinks. Please do not submit interpretations or analyses of dreams.
When you send in a dream, give it a title and indicate the (approximate) date you had it, along with your name or initials, unless you wish to remain anonymous.* If you are responding to a dream that has already been posted, identify it by title.
Post your dreams and responses to:
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Burnt Sienna (John Dotson’s dream of February 2, 2012)
I am trying to bring order among scattered objects. I’m in conversation with anonymous others—faculty, students, friends—as in my teaching era. Speaking to one creative writing student, I say that “I can’t believe last year is over already, much less this year too.” I am aware that in my stack of personal drawings is an [...]
Uncle Clyde (John Dotson’s dream of January 28, 2012)
The dream is set in an amalgamated location: Grampaw’s house down in West Carter’s Valley, the house on West Sullivan Street, and non-localities elsewhere… Uncle Clyde—who died decades ago—was entertaining me—a man who never in his life entertained, who would not have understood that verb. I am also on something of a tour, traveling in [...]
New Orleans (John Dotson’s dream of October 5, 2011)
I’m living out of a suitcase successfully. I’m on the street, navigating among crowds. I’m making my way out amongst the sidewalk and street traffic. I make it to more than one appointment. After one lunch, I’m making my way to the next locale when I realize I walked away from the restaurant and left [...]
Bringing Back a Stone (Deborah Hillman’s dream of August 20, 2011)
I dream that I’m having a lucid dream—perhaps it is lucid, for a moment—and I see, on my bedroom floor, a sandy beach that is filled with beach stones. I tell myself to pick up a stone before I lose the lucidity, as that will allow me to bring it back from the dream world. I reach for a stone, and then I seem [...]
Order, Chaos, and the Feminine (John Doton’s dream of August 5, 2011)
I’m in Paris, attending a large convocation. Large in complexity. The venue is old and gray, but not derelict. Heavily enclosing its interior spaces, the locale is labyrinthine with massive walls and thresholds. Not a hotel but a well-established, venerable production center with spartan, hostel-like rooms for those who are working. I find myself roomed [...]
Laser Dance (John Dotson’s dream of June 24, 2011)
I am in a setting of coordinated group activities, on a visit to an educational institution. Some exotic and fabulous penthouse space is involved. I am somehow joined with all who are present in various levels and layers of study and communication. A circumambulatory movement somehow forms and swirls into a circle dance. At one [...]
Bridge to Nowhere (John Dotson’s dream of May 21, 2011)
I am in a car alone, driving a wide and busy freeway at high speed. The freeway begins to elevate in a long but pronounced parabola, upward as if toward the crest of a bridge. I am climbing and accelerating and thinking, O boy, I hope there’s a great bridge coming up—while also feeling my [...]
Chicago Dreams (John Dotson’s dreams of April 27 and May 1, 2011)
am coordinating production activities am disturbed by memory that i have murdered a woman, chopped her body in pieces, sealed pieces in concrete busy busy busy remember my crime confident that i cannot be found out busy busy busy — all is well remember my crime worry i will somehow be found out busy [...]
Mass Magic (John Dotson’s dream of April 6, 2011)
am coordinating a large gathering at times i am just amongst the throng and then naturally emergent in a leadership role manymost of the people know each other andor of each other as they are gathering i am burning and dodging shapeshifting elusively omnipresent configuring vanishing swirling twirling hurling mudras a thickening crowd i don’t [...]
Rapport (Lloyd Gilden’s dream of March 26, 2011)
I dreamed I was in a small room looking for a pen. I encountered a young woman and asked her if I could borrow a pen. As I spoke I felt a very clear sense of my Being and a strong sense of rapport with her. She answered “Yes. I have a pen that erases [...]