CHAPEL HILL PUBLIC ARTS COMMISSION 306 NORTH COLUMBIA STREET CHAPEL HILL, NC 27514 info@chapelhillarts.org LINKS Selections from the bibliography of Dreaming Your Way to Creative Freedom - Lucy Daniels Arieti, Silvano. Creativity – The Magic Synthesis. Basic Books, Inc., New York, 1976. Deri, Susan K. Symbolization and Creativity. International Universities Press, Inc., New York, 1984. Fosshage, James. “The Organizing Functions of Dream Mentation.” Contemporary Psychoanalysis. Vol. 33, 1997, pp. 429-458. Kolodny, Susan. The Captive Muse: On Creativity and Its Inhibition. Psychosocial Press, Madison, Connecticut, 2000. Kubie, Lawrence S. Neurotic Distortion of the Creative Process. University of Kansas Press, Lawrence, Kansas, 1958. Milner, Marion. On Not Being Able to Paint. International Universities Press, Inc., New York, 1957. Reiser, Morton. Memory in Mind and Brain: What Dream Imagery Reveals. Basic Books, Inc., New York, 1990. Rose, Gilbert J. Trauma and Mastery in Life and Art. Yale University Press, Inc., New Haven and London, 1987. Dream links contributed by the Carrboro Cybrary SLEEP DREAMS BEYOND SLEEP DREAMS ART & ARTISTS SLEEP DREAMS When we hear the word dream, we may first think of the dreams that we encounter during our sleep. These dreams provide powerful images that may long linger with us or may fade into our unconscious as we awaken. The following links provide information about these sleep dreams, from the scholar’s perspective to the artist’s. GENERAL INFORMATION ABOUT DREAMS http://www.asdreams.org/subidxshowart.htm The International Association for the Study of Dreams is “a non-profit, international, multidisciplinary organization dedicated to the pure and applied investigation of dreams and dreaming.” This comprehensive website includes common questions about dreams, an online chat forum, and a dream art gallery. http://www.mythsdreamssymbols.com This website “explores the unconscious world of dreams through myth, symbol, and metaphor.” The site includes some very helpful overviews such as “A Dummies Guide to Dreams,” “A Short History of Dreams,” and helpful hints for remembering your dreams. http://dreamresearch.net This website delivers results from the Qualitative Study of Dreams at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Psychologists G. William Domhoff and Adam Schneider perform content analysis of dreams. On the website, they provide links to resources for scientists, scientific articles, experiment results, and current projects in dream research. GO TO TOP CLASSIC TEXTS ON DREAMS http://www.psywww.com/books/interp/toc.htm The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud is one of the classic writings on dreams and their significance. In this work, Freud describes his methods of dream analysis, his idea of dreams as wish fulfillment, and the place of dreams in his groundbreaking psychological studies. http://classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/dreams.html Written in 350 B.C., On Dreams by Aristotle remains one of the singular investigations of dreams and dreaming. The great Greek philosopher is once again ahead of his time as he describes dreams as remnants of our waking life and even makes reference to lucid dreaming. DREAM-INSPIRED ART & ARTISTS http://www.insomnium.co.uk An impressive site by UK artist Kevin Wilson. Wilson uses photography and video to convey images that come to him while dreaming. Additional resources on the site include articles about Jungian dream analysis, Wilson’s dream journal, and techniques for lucid dreaming. http://www.ondreaming.com Counselor and artist Gail Bixler dedicates her website to the Internet publication of dream imagery. She invites people to submit dreams and artwork for display. Ms. Bixler presents the history of dream theories, the importance of dreamwork, and a summary of the latest research. http://tcup.currentform.com TCUP: The Collective Unconscious Project is the undertaking of artists Simon King and Josh Dahl. People are encouraged to log on and contribute dreams to the database. In the Explore segment of the website, randomly selected dream entries appear. Clicking on the swirling list of keywords brings up other dream entries. The effect is ethereal and dreamy. DREAM INTERPRETATION http://www.dreammoods.com Dream Moods is an online guide to dream interpretation. This comprehensive site offers information on dream recall, dream theories, and common dream themes. The A-Z Dream Dictionary explores over 3500 dream symbols. There is a list of links to online discussion forums with topics from Nightmares to Dreams about Celebrities. GO TO TOP BEYOND SLEEP DREAMS Project participants should not to limit themselves to the idea of sleeping dreams. The idea of dreams may include visions of the future, fantasies, goals, imaginings, or reveries. To help you think beyond the idea of sleep dreams, Roget’s Thesaurus offers these words as synonyms for the noun “dream”: air castle, ambition, aspiration, bubble, chimera, conceiving, delusion, design, desire, fancy, fool's paradise, hallucination, head trip, hope, idea, image, impression, incubus, imagining, mind trip, musing, phantasm, reverie, stargazing, thought, trance, trip, vision, wish, woolgathering. The following links will help you to broaden your understanding of the term “dream,” by leading you to the works of dreamers, visionaries, creators, and thinkers from a variety of disciplines. DREAMERS OF A BETTER WORLD The following are just a few of the most influential dreamers who dared to envision and create a better world. Martin Luther King, Jr. http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/Ihaveadream.htm This page contains the text of MLK Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech. INFLUENTIAL IMAGINATIONS Throughout history, creative minds have dreamed up some of the most important and influential ideas, from Da Vinci’s flying machine to Edison’s light bulb. Leonardo da Vinci http://www.visi.com/~reuteler/leonardo.html This site offers da Vinci’s sketches, from the famous Vitruvian man to his self portraits. GO TO TOP ART & ARTISTS Great works of art may represent the dreams (or nightmares) of the artist or they may inspire the viewer to dreams previously unrealized. The following artists are meant to help spark your creative processes, thinking broadly about the ways dreams and art may intersect. Salvador Dali http://www.salvadordalimuseum.org Known for his dreamy, surrealist landscapes, Dali read Freud’s writings on dreams, traveled to met Freud in London, and subsequently completed several portraits of him. Edvard Munch http://www.munch.museum.no/ Most famous for his nightmarish painting, The Scream, Munch was central to the development of European expressionism. His works often center around the darkest of our dreams, revealing humanities most basic fears and anxieties. Rene Magritte http://www.atara.net/magritte/ Magritte was a key figure in the surrealist movement and was heavily influenced by Dadaism. Just as our dreams are often strangely familiar yet difficult to comprehend, much of Magritte’s work depicted ordinary objects transplanted to bizarre and unrealistic surroundings. Home En Español Where's Your Art? 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