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dreaming
The famous Lord Sluk has written an interesting post on dream-journaling as a sort of negotiation process between the unconscious and the ego. This jibes with my own experience of dream-journaling, and also with my current project, where I've been writing poems in a semi-conscious state.
My response, in part, reads:
"In [my] semi-awake state I have a greater ability to allow unconscious material / intuitive connections into my mind. I have been looking at the process of writing these poems very much as a process of training—ideally I am trying to learn to trust the value of these sorts of intuitions and impulses... I'd like to be able to coax them out / access them more regularly during waking hours. As it is, they begin to emerge sometimes and then I (the ego) just immediately clamp(s) down on them.
Sometimes even in my semi-awake state the conscious mind barges in and begins to question the value of the unconscious material / juxtapositions, which tends to bring the entire process of the poem to a screeching halt.
In short, I'm trying to let my unconscious mind colonize my conscious mind, rather than vice versa. But perhaps Sluk's metaphor of the two establishing dialogue is the more generous metaphor here.
I promised that if I worked up the nerve I'd post some of the poems here, but probably a better place for them is my dormant LiveJournal, which had previously been my dream journal. Here's today's. Labels: writing |
Monday, March 29, 2004
2:10 PM
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