Changing Topics

Dreams can read like hidden codes, revealing and concealing our deepest thoughts.  

Here is the recollection of recent dream from a friend: 

We are a biology class together. It was our first year of university, but it was also the present somehow. She was sitting right behind me at one of those desks with a collapsable arm. 

I had my notebook out on my desk, open to a page of notes I had taken on the textbook. The textbook was some kind of botany manual, and I had written "Herbs..... MMMMMM" really big over several lines. Some girls sitting near me noticed in and snickered at me. 

Suddenly, a principal-like lady came in, escorting my brother who was on campus to visit me.  She instructed him to sit next to me and left.

The topic of the class kept changing-- soon, we were studying mechanical engineering. I started taking notes on my calf after pushing up my jeans over my knee. My brother was bored, so he started playing with his cellphone. When the teacher noticed, she approached to scold him. I put my hand out over the phone, and informed the teacher that he was only visiting. She then left him alone, resuming her lecture. I was immersed in note-taking. 

When I next looked up, at the end of class, my brother was gone. I frantically searched for him throughout the building, which turned into several buildings. I ended up wandering the halls of an elementary school, where a buttoned-up teacher was monitoring the halls. I explained to her the situation. She asked how old my brother was. When I replied that he was 18 or 20, she laughed and said that he would be fine on his own. I got upset and tried to tell her that she just didn't understand... 

Achieving Dreams

Here is a simple but thoughtful article on achieving professional dreams.  The author, Penelope Trunk, is job advice maven for the 21st century.  Enjoy!

http://www.bnet.com/blog/penelope-trunk/how-to-get-your-dream-job-in-a-bad-market/489

Dreaming the future

Can premonitions really happen while we are dreaming?

A very dear friend of mine, Jon, said he had a dream of tornadoes the night before a massive tornado storm landed in Massachusetts.

My great aunt, Selma, had a dream the night my grandmother passes way, where she saw her sister, and her husband holding hands surrounded by family.  She woke knowing something very important had just occurred, and found out, later from a frantic phone call with my father, her dream represented the passing of her sister.

Mysteries of mind connections continue to inspire wonderment.

Moody Dreams

Everyone knows the feeling of waking up on the wrong side of the bed.  Did you know its actually a scientific state of waking right from REM sleep? On the other side, if you wake during Non-Rapid Eye Movement Sleep, (NREM) you will be in a good mood.

Nancy Billings posted this dream account:
"I was doing yoga in my dream last night and woke up feeling GREAT! Think i'm going to go back to sleep to do some more yoga! :-)" 

NOVA: What are Dreams?

Here is a great video on NOVA about dreams.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqQrbF2RFQc

Welcome to Dream Harvester!

You are invited to participate in an art community project, "Dream Harvester" hosted by artist Ariel Freiberg. This blog is an open forum for accounts of dreams from slumber or wished aspiration.  

"Dream Harvester" and Ariel will be live and dreaming at Somerville's art festival Artbeat, July 16th in Davis Square. For more information, please visit http://www.somervilleartscouncil.org/programs/artbeat/index.html

Once Ariel harvests the dreams of the visitors of Artbeat, she will create visual representations of the collective accounts. These works will be shared on this blog and exhibited in the Boston area (location yet to be determined). 

Art can draw on the unconscious collective ideas of our time.  Ariel would like to investigate this further, by expanding her usual private process of working in the studio by harvesting a collection of her communities’ dreams.  Through the visual translation of these accounts, she hopes to highlight the connective tissues of thought through our global village. 

The visualization of ideas is one way to make distant dreams tangible. All are welcomed to begin sharing in the "Dream Harvester."