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:
stevenrosen@shaw.ca
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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, […]
Free to Scale the Heights (John Dotson’s dream of September 20, 2012)
I’m with Daddy and Mother. They have come to see me. I look directly into their faces and feel immediately their bodily presence. I do not yield to them or defer to their power or let them poison the environment. I’m at First Baptist Church and attend some kind of non-Sunday service led by some […]