Dreamwork

One wonderful, simple process play frame is to work with a dream, or dream fragment. My invitation to you: how might you take a dream piece, recent or memorable, and process it forward in an arts channel?

Here’s my example. I love this poem, and I still remember the dream and its value to me (because of the poem).

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Dreampoem #1

A message cannot be pushed for
or pulled out with a long breath
studied or plucked from the plant.

The crystallizations you lead me towards
mostly in the dream state
are infinitely precious
and fleeting

temporary states within the one.
For example this morning
awakening with a dreamweight
still hanging on my soul like wet clothes

still loading every limb
with extra gravity. Some stories

are elusive and gripping
and each moment is an entry point.
In this dream I knew
that you and I
(you and eye)
must be aligned in the right time
line, that the correct passcode
had to be entered into the right keypad
and that you had the passcode
and I was the keypad
and that very much depended on our meeting.

Brushing aside intangibles
and other dust of your life -
partners, paths & stories still hanging on you -
I called you by means of some unclear force
generated from behind the eyes
towards the center, where I too had leaned
out of the other path, my life.

Actual morning
when I tell you this story
you line us up body to body
and link your arms around my arms
to lash our spirits gently together
wild animals that they are -
like two vines
encouraged to rest on the same frame.
As if you said,
"it's ok to lean into the middle"
and I said "I will never let you go
again" and we both said
"let's try to remember
not to forget".

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Thumbnail image reverently appropriated from KTSmail designed notebook