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.
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Sculpturing Ecstasy in Bethesda Plaza (John Dotson’s dream of March 19, 2011)
I am in and out of a hotel room. It feels like New York or Chicago (both?). I have lost my key and take the elevator to the front desk, where an elaborately industrial procedure is used (involving machinery like a die press with a heavy solenoid interface) to make a new key by placing [...]
Head Without a Body (Lloyd Gilden’s dream of December 31, 2010)
This morning I dreamed I was looking at the head of a man without a body. He was silently “floating” about five feet above the floor. His head was turned, and I was looking at his profile. He was in his thirties, nice looking. I felt astonished and amazed to see the head without a [...]
Dilated Universe (John Dotson’s dream of January 2, 2011)
The dream setting is a rarefied environment. It’s as if there is just a little bit more spaciousness between all the atoms, so that the fabric of reality allows more light to pass through. Everything moves with greater ease and fluidity. A well-lubricated universe. This is true of thoughts and feelings also. At times this [...]
Eleusinian Mysteries (John Dotson’s dream of November 9, 2010)
Dancing rituals, momentous dramatic configurations. At the edge of chaos and yet fully contained. Eleusinian Bacchanalian Saturnalian. Dervish tarantula tango. The intentions were not accidental. Still, the work was open. There seemed to be a quintessential word, a single missing word, a lost word, that unified–a descriptor that would not form in my mind or [...]
Emerging Soul (Janneke Punt van Linden’s dream of December 4, 2010)
My friend Sharon and I are riding in the backseat of a black sedan. My eyes are closed and heavy with sleep. Round and round we travel beside gigantic piles of fresh white snow. Car slows, stops, Sharon and I get out and begin walking down a narrow road. Sharon stops beside a white van. I keep walking further and [...]
Loss of Soul (John Dotson’s dream of November 12, 2010)
Some kind of convocation. All in all, something of a wilderness retreat; it feels like Purgatory. Figures are walking around aimlessly, like the spirit companions of Marley’s ghost. But this is no joke. I am amongst these figures, but just visiting somehow. All of them have been drained of their souls. This draining has been [...]
The Plant (John Dotson’s dream of October 14, 2010)
I’m in Tennessee where I was born (the present time-frame is uncertain). We are a party of three. You [Steven Rosen], another (who is at turns a man, at turns a woman), and I. I am conducting a tour of the big Eastman Kodak plant where my father worked. It is a rather labyrinthine walk [...]
Incomplete Disposal (John Dotson’s dream of September 20, 2010)
This dream involves a long narrative sequence with many details. Not a very dramatic situation, just sort of meandering in the ordinary. But then it becomes clear that there have been certain problems, associated with certain persons, and there are those around me who I become aware are associated with eliminating these problems and these [...]
East (Seite’s dream of about six years ago)
‘I am walking to the East, walking towards a conflict; I sense it as a war, a great war pushing westward. I pass many people, many refugees, they are fleeing, heading west. One of these people stops me, he is a religious man, he cries “do not head east, there is great conflict, great misery”, [...]
Stone Carving (John Dotson’s dream of August 30, 2010 — in response to Steven Rosen’s “The Body Lays Down its Wholeness”)
I’m vigorously at work on a large and complex structure. It’s engaging, challenging, rewarding. The expression for this work is: stone carving. At some point, my thumb becomes sore from overexertion. Action needs to be taken. Suddenly, a friend/alter ego is the one with the sore thumb, and I am observing him at work. I [...]