The Art of Dreaming: Tools for Creative Dream Work

, by Mellick, Jill

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ISBN: 9781573245746 | 1573245747
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 8/1/2001

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Summary

Unlike other dream books, The Art of Dreaming inspires readers to play with their dreams across a range of media including painting, ceramics, dancing, mask making, and poetry. This approach integrates dreaming and creativity and leads readers through a fascinating process of self-exploration.

Foreword

xiii

Marion Woodman

Entering Your Dream World

Receive Dreams as Messengers from Another Realm

(2)

Treat Your Dream World as a New Culture

(3)

Work Creatively with Contradictory Dream Theories

(3)

Find Your Dream's Organic Art Form

(2)

To Interpret or Not to Interpret: Tradition and Innovation

(2)

Experiment with a Range of Approaches

(3)

Keep Faith with Your Dream Life

(5)

Merging Dream Work and the Expressive Arts

Exercise Your Birthright to Unique Self-Expression

(1)

Respect the Four Phases of Expressive Dream Work

(1)

Make Time

(1)

Make Space

(2)

Let Go of Goals and Judgments

(2)

Free Your Body and Spirit for Dream Work

(2)

Create a Free-Form Visual Journal

(1)

Treat Your Completed Work with Respect

(6)

Expressive Dream Work in Five Minutes

Free the Form

(3)

Follow the Form

(2)

Work with Fragments

(2)

Become the Dream Image

(2)

Capture Essence and Hunches

(2)

Choose Three Words to Amplify

(1)

Notice Synchronicities

(1)

Translate Your Dream into an Energy Painting

(3)

Take Your Energy Painting into Your Body

(1)

Remove and Replace Images

(2)

Remember Your Image through Simple Sketches

(1)

Do Simplified Sketches of Dream Animals

(1)

Make a Dream ``Eternal''

(2)

Get Specific

(2)

Use Contrast

(3)

View Life Events as Dreams

(6)

Expressive Dream Work in Ten to Fifteen Minutes

Turn Your Dream into a Fairy Tale

(2)

Turn Your Dream into Your Life Myth

(3)

Unearth the Natural Poetry in Your Dream

(4)

Make a Poem out of a Challenging Dream

(2)

Look at What's Missing

(2)

Write Your Dream Haiku-Style

(3)

Draw Mandalas after Dreams

(1)

Sound a Dream Mandala

(1)

Draw a Mandala for a Big Dream

(1)

Write a Short Dream as a Mandala

(1)

Re-enact Dream Movements

(4)

Move Like Your Dream Animal

(2)

Tell Your Dream from a New Viewpoint

(3)

Converse with Dream Entities

100

(3)

Use a Stone to Mark a Sacred Dream

103

(2)

Use Collage to Express Color, Shape, and Theme

105

(5)

Make Masks of Dream Figures

110

(3)

Use Clay to Express Feeling, Movement, and Figure

113

(8)

Expressive Dream Work with Nightmares

Look at Both Good and Bad Associations to Images

121

(2)

Find the Opposite Image for Your Nightmare

123

(2)

Contain a Nightmare in a Short Poem

125

(3)

Create Contained Energy Paintings

128

(1)

Make a Healing Mandala

129

(1)

Offer Up Dark Dreams to Nature

130

(2)

Give Nightmares Tangible Form

132

(10)

The Care and Feeding of Dream Figures and Animals

Care for Figures We Know

142

(1)

Care for Figures We Don't Know

143

(1)

Care for Same Sex Figures

143

(2)

Care for Opposite Sex Figures

145

(1)

Care for Magical, Mythical, and Divine Figures

146

(1)

Tend Your Dream Animals

147

(8)

Expressive Dream Work with Recurring Dreams and Series

Visit an Art Gallery of Repeated Images

155

(1)

Amplify Associations

156

(1)

Visit the Rogues' Gallery

157

(1)

Work with Repeated Actions

158

(2)

Explore Repeated Times of Day and Season

160

(1)

Explore Repeated Colors

161

(1)

Map Directions

162

(1)

Explore a Repeated Quality

162

(1)

Observe Repeated Feelings and Emotions

163

(1)

Use Different Media for Recurring Images

164

(2)

Map Structural Patterns

166

(1)

Look for Perspective

167

(5)

Enriching Dream Work in Groups

Share Dreams with Trusted Others

172

(1)

Set a Context for Dream Work with a Partner

173

(1)

Explore, Don't Interpret, Your Partner's Dream

174

(3)

Celebrate What's Unique and What's Shared

177

(1)

Select Your Group Members Carefully

178

(1)

Give the Group a Ritual Form

178

(1)

Practice Acceptance and Nonjudgment

179

(1)

Establish a Framework

180

(2)

Use Every Medium from Mime to Song

182

(1)

Don't Compare. Appreciate!

183

(2)

To Go Further

185

(2)

Bibliography

187

(6)

Acknowledgments

193

(2)

A Special Acknowledgment to the Dreamers and Artists

195

(2)

Index

197

(8)

About the Author

205

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