Dreams & Creativity
Since you spend one-third of your
life sleeping -- but your brain never
sleeps -- wouldn't it be wonderful to
tap into some of the action, to coax
out in the open some of your brain's
random firings and synaptic bursts
where they can illuminate, reveal or
inspire?
Dreams -- those nightly messengers
that dance back and forth between the
conscious and unconscious -- are just
waiting to be your guides and
translators. Dreams, the source of
rich characters and bold story plots,
of innovative scientific breakthroughs
and ingenious inventions, can boost
your creativity and help you find
answers to your waking dilemmas and
conflicts.
We humans are designed to be creative:
self-healing, nurturing, intuitive,
powerful beings. Part of our strength
lies in our ability to remember,
imagine, and dream. Especially potent
are the images which surface with our
dreams, and those which flash upon the
just-closed eye. They have been
filtered through the soul,
and sometimes through the very
soul of all life.
Do we stop to realize how many images
enter through our worldly eyes every
day? Where those images come from,
what they are put there for, the
effect they are designed to have on
us?
Paying attention to our own imagery is
an affirmation of our own power.
Growth doesn't happen to us; it's a
process we participate in. Our
responsibility involves being
responsive to the imagery of the soul.
Uncovering a soul image is like
receiving a gift in the mail, a little
parcel left on the doorstep. We
gingerly unwrap it, a little eager, a
little wary. What is this? Maybe a
fine sphere of crystal, maybe a
well-loved childhood doll, maybe dog
poop!...or
maybe something we have never seen
before, something we can only begin to
imagine how to make use of.
The beauty of images is that they
don't always need to be recognized or
explained. Lodged within us, they
resonate, pulse. We find our feelings,
thoughts and actions align with our
imagery. We build and create.
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The Creative Impulse in Dreams
There is an archetypal creative
impulse woven into the fabric of every
dream.
Sometimes this creative energy is
clearly visible to the dreamer, but
more often it is
hidden by the emotional experience of
the dream. It may require an unusual
effort of
imagination (often aided by the
suggestions and assistance of other
people) to bring
the dream's message more fully into
the light of conscious self-awareness,
but with
careful study, we often find dreams
provide solutions to problems the
conscious mind is grappling with to no
avail.
The story of Elias Howe's invention
of the sewing machine in 1845 is a
case in point. Howe had been
struggling to invent a machine that
would sew with the same speed and
efficiency as Hargreaves' and
Cartwright's new machines would spin
and weave, but with no success. As the
tale goes, exhausted by frustration,
Howe fell asleep at his workbench one
night and had this dream:
He is in Africa, fleeing from
cannibals through the jungle. Despite
his frantic efforts to escape, the
natives capture him, tie him up hand
and foot, and carry him back to their
village slung from a pole. There they
dump him into a huge iron pot full of
water. They light a fire under the pot
and start to boil him alive. As the
water starts to bubble and boil around
him, he discovers that the ropes have
loosened enough for him to work his
hands free. He tries repeatedly to
take hold of the edge of the pot and
haul himself out of the hot water, but
every time he manages to heave himself
up over the edge of the pot, the
natives reach across over the flames
and forcibly poke him back down into
the pot again with their sharp spears.
When Howe awoke from this "nightmare,"
much of his mind was absorbed with
sorting through the emotions of the
dream--but another part was able to
note with
objectivity, "That's odd--those spears
all have holes in the points...." As
Howe came
more fully awake, he thought, "Holes
in the points... holes in the points!
That's it!
That's the answer! As he awoke, Howe
realized that the trick to making his
sewing machine work was to move the
thread transport hole up to point of
the needle (as opposed to a handheld
needle, where the hole is on the
base).
It then was a relatively
simple matter to design a system of
gears that would cause the needle to
poke the thread down through the
layers of cloth, wrap it around a
second thread, and then pull it up
again, all very neatly and
efficiently. And with the invention of
the sewing machine, the last
bottleneck to the mechanical
production of clothing was
broken--this dream lead very directly
to the realization of the industrial
revolution!
Unfortunately, I do not know enough
about Howe's personal life and
emotional history to make anything
more than vaguely educated guesses
about the layers of meaning and
significance in this historic dream
that refer to his personal psychology.
Even though I can only guess at them,
they certainly exist. At the level of
Freudian sexual imagery, for example,
the sewing machine itself is a prime
example of the sublimation of
primitive libidinal energy into
creative expression and cultural
artifacts, and the specific imagery of
the dream evokes that layer of
possible meaning very strongly. In any
case, it is very likely that the hot
water was also metaphoric of the sweat
of Howe's intense mental efforts.
Even more importantly, the dream
offers an extraordinary example of the
Jungian
archetype of the "shadow" and its
creative and gift-giving aspect. In
Howe's dream,
the creative solution to the technical
problem is literally in the hands of
the darkest,
scariest, and most repugnant
figures--the cannibals. This imagery
manifests one of
the deepest truths about the
archetypal energy of the shadow:
The conventional waking
consciousness views all that is not
yet clearly manifested and understood
in the world of the ego as nasty,
ugly, frightening, dark, and
dangerous. Yet the deep unconscious
contains the things the waking
unconscious desires and longs for the
most (the energies of love,
creativity, and communion with the
divine, to name a few); strip away the
dark and frightening mask of the
shadow, and that which is devoutly
wished for and sought is revealed.
In all our nightmares there is this
challenge to look into "the magic
mirror that never
lies," see the reflections of the
least understood and most problematic
shadow
aspects of the self, and consciously
acknowledge, "I am that, too." When we
have the courage and imagination to do
this, we are invariably rewarded with
the gift of greater awareness of the
creative impulse that is part of every
dream. (c) 1996 Jeremy Taylor
Working with Dreams and Images
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If
you can imagine it, you can achieve
it.
If you can dream it, you can become
it.
William
Arthur Ward
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