Fascinating post! Its such a common theme amongst creative people that ideas just "arrive" without direct influence, as if you are more like the brush than the painter.
Ooooh! The "Cosmic Drama"!!! This is why I'm not hating my insomnia as this is mostly when/where all this happens. I stopped trying to 'make sense' of it all and just let it happen, take notes, respect wherever it comes from and goes to and feel as if these are precious gifts given to me to use, explore, accept in gratitude. I am the receiver and as long as they keep coming and unfolding in my presence, I will happily accept these gifts. They present themselves into my art making the meaning and the visual outstanding in ways that without.......are good still but missing so much. Way back in the day..."recreational drugs" opened up a likewise portal to such dimensions and used as such tools, yet there was something always in the back of the mind that knew this was an artificial way to "get there". But now.......the portal is there, the mind is receptive and very appreciative that it has not been abandoned but enhanced. Thank you for another great essay.
Annette, do you keep a dream journal? I have been attempting that but the dreams slip out of mind before I can even sit up usually. That kind of frustrates me. I have been trying to keep my phone by the bed so I can just pick it up and start talking into my notes app but even like that it is very hard to translate into language while it is slipping out of mind. And sometimes a little voice seems to say ‘no, don’t record that.’
I"m generally lazy when it comes to doing that. I do have pen and paper nearby but I often think, "Oh, I'll remember this"......hahahahaha....right. If I am obsessing about it then no need to write it down as it will be embedded in my mind. A few times I have written it down but then I re-read it back and it makes no sense at all as if it's in some sort of code that I don't have a key to. Maybe some remnants of the message will still be hovering around but then I don't want to push it or fake it so I just let it go and hope for the next one another night will work for me. Each night when I do actually sleep I have all sorts of surreal, bizarre fantastical dreams. It's all so very entertaining and fun. I don't watch tv or see movies. My head can provide all sorts of interesting realms and I welcome them, even the scary ones.
Fascinating post! Its such a common theme amongst creative people that ideas just "arrive" without direct influence, as if you are more like the brush than the painter.
I enter the Mundus Imaginalis daily, however, before it is committed to canvas or paper, my vision dissolves in a puff of air…
Your suggestion to Annette about using the phone to capture notes, is an excellent idea. Thank you.
Ooooh! The "Cosmic Drama"!!! This is why I'm not hating my insomnia as this is mostly when/where all this happens. I stopped trying to 'make sense' of it all and just let it happen, take notes, respect wherever it comes from and goes to and feel as if these are precious gifts given to me to use, explore, accept in gratitude. I am the receiver and as long as they keep coming and unfolding in my presence, I will happily accept these gifts. They present themselves into my art making the meaning and the visual outstanding in ways that without.......are good still but missing so much. Way back in the day..."recreational drugs" opened up a likewise portal to such dimensions and used as such tools, yet there was something always in the back of the mind that knew this was an artificial way to "get there". But now.......the portal is there, the mind is receptive and very appreciative that it has not been abandoned but enhanced. Thank you for another great essay.
Annette, do you keep a dream journal? I have been attempting that but the dreams slip out of mind before I can even sit up usually. That kind of frustrates me. I have been trying to keep my phone by the bed so I can just pick it up and start talking into my notes app but even like that it is very hard to translate into language while it is slipping out of mind. And sometimes a little voice seems to say ‘no, don’t record that.’
I"m generally lazy when it comes to doing that. I do have pen and paper nearby but I often think, "Oh, I'll remember this"......hahahahaha....right. If I am obsessing about it then no need to write it down as it will be embedded in my mind. A few times I have written it down but then I re-read it back and it makes no sense at all as if it's in some sort of code that I don't have a key to. Maybe some remnants of the message will still be hovering around but then I don't want to push it or fake it so I just let it go and hope for the next one another night will work for me. Each night when I do actually sleep I have all sorts of surreal, bizarre fantastical dreams. It's all so very entertaining and fun. I don't watch tv or see movies. My head can provide all sorts of interesting realms and I welcome them, even the scary ones.