Fast Dream Interpretation
There are times when you want to get on with your day, without taking time
for a full dream interpretation. You may not even want to record the dream
for later. Yet you have a "dream hangover." The feelings evoked by the dream
are lingering, clouding your mind and spirit.
Dispelling "dream hangover" feelings
I've found a quick way to resolve these feelings and dispel
the clouds. It's based on a kind of quick drawing that's a variation of
automatic drawing. I learned it from a book by
Betty Edwards, called Drawing
on the Artist Within.
Betty Edwards - analog drawing
Betty Edwards calls this kind of automatic drawing "analog
drawing." Whereas automatic drawing is about nothing in particular - just
whatever the hand draws - an analog drawing is about a specific feeling.
It's still a completely free drawing. You just pick up a
soft pencil and watch the marks your hand and pencil make on the paper.
You're releasing all control. But while you're doing this, you're focusing
your mind on the feeling of the dream.
This is different from most dream interpretation techniques
done with drawing. You're not making any effort to draw images from the
dream. The only connection with the dream is the feeling of the dream -
whatever feeling lingers from it.
These free or automatic drawings can be very quick. It may
only take a few seconds for you to get some feeling of completion. Put that
drawing aside and do another. Keep on doing these analog drawings until the
"dream hangover" is dispelled.
I don't know why this works. It doesn't matter to me,
really. I just know that it does work.
You can see how useful this is. It can make all the
difference in your day. The automatic drawing clears out the sort of clog of
feelings left from the dream. Instead of clouding the morning and possibly
the whole day, the feelings have been released.
Analog drawing to release any troubling feeling
You can apply this same technique to any situation in which
you have troubling, "clouding" feelings. Focus on the feeling while doing
automatic drawing. Keep making quick free drawings - analog drawings - till
the feeling is dispelled.
Betty Edwards - Drawing on the Artist Within
This is the book from which I learned to make analog
drawings and paintings. I recommend it most highly. If you buy it from
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These analog drawings, especially when made with a sumi
brush and India ink, have been a key to developing my iron sculpture. I can
get to the essence - the essential gesture - that enables an iron bar to
express a certain feeling or state of being. You can apply this to any other
kind of visual art as well.
More information on analog drawing
August, 2003 -
my brief report
on this
August, 2003 - weblog entry on
free drawing, analog drawing
April, 2003
Dialogue with the Bowls - mentions that in 1996 I used analog drawing as
a key step in designing an outdoor sculpture.
Sample analog drawings
I'll add some samples soon. Meanwhile, you can see some
sample automatic drawings here on the website and also in my eBay store.
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