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Friday, June 16, 2006

USING YOUR DREAMS TO CREATE POETRY & STORIES (And Maybe Gain Insight to Your Dreams)

[Graphic courtesy of Jim Warren Studios]

Below are four fun ways I have developed with which you can both explore your dreams and use them as sources for creative writing and poetry. I designed them for a workshop I gave years back called "Using Poetry & Tarot to Explore Your Dreams."

#1: GRAB-BAG

- Choose at random at least a dozen words from any dream.
- Write each one on a separate small slip of paper.
- Mix up the slips.
- Arrange the words in some order.
- What is suggested to you? Non-sensical or otherwise? Does any insight into the dream surface? Any other kind of insight? Is there a connection between the dream and these randomly selected words and order? Does a story or scene suggest itself, related to the dream or not?
- Draft a poem or story, adding or deleting any words you need to in order to make it work.

#2: STRING SOUP

... since the resolution to a dream is sometimes said to be in a subsequent dream ...

1) Take the last few lines/images of a dream you recorded and add to it the first few lines/images of a subsequent dream. What do they suggest? Do they fit together in any way? If not, what can you add to them to connect them? Try re-ordering the sentences.

OR

2) Take the ending lines/images of several dreams and string them together. What do they suggest? Try re-ordering the sentences.

OR

3) Take the most impactful lines/images of several dreams and string them together. What do they suggest? Try re-ordering the sentences.

Draft a poem or story, adding or deleting what seems needed to make it complete.

#3: TURNABOUT'S FAIR PLAY

1) Try turning pivotal words in the dream into their opposites: cool to warm, male to female, up to down, left to right, yes to no, bad to good, etc. What does the result suggest?

OR

2) Try reversing the action of the dream; i.e. tell it as backwards as possible. What does the result suggest?

Draft a poem or story, adding or deleting what seems needed to make it complete.

#4: BUDDY SYSTEM

1) Have a friend free-associate with one word each to words you select in your dream. Write down what they say. Make a poem out of these new words. How does it relate to your dream? What does it suggest to you beyond the dream?

OR

2) Read a dream to a friend, slowly, twice through, LEAVING OFF THE LAST COUPLE OF LINES. Have your friend create an ending to the dream. Make notes. What does this new ending suggest?

OR

3) Read a dream to a friend, slowly, twice through, LEAVING OFF THE BEGINNING COUPLE OF LINES. Have your friend create a beginning to the dream. Make notes. What does this new beginning suggest?

Draft a poem or story, adding or deleting what seems needed to make it complete.

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Resource: Dream Lines, enter a word or two about your dream, wait a bit as the drawing develops, then wait some more as it evolves further; a fun way to relate to dreams.

‘til next time, keep dreaming,

Roswila

[aka: Patricia Kelly]

****If you wish to copy or use any of my writing or poems, please email me for permission (under "View my complete profile")****My other blog: ROSWILA’S TAROT GALLERY & JOURNAL.

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