dreams Archive

  • What Dreams May Come

    There are two ways into the world of dreams. The first is to walk in consciously, the second is to achieve consciousness during or after it. These two modes suggest two ways of dealing with the unconscious mind: the largest part of our brain, and the seat of all that we do not understand about ourselves.

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  • Approaching Star

    Lamb Chop In The Sky

    If a boy becomes a man and can still feel the tug of an emotion from across 40 years, one may guess that the experience was profound - and so it was.

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  • Golden Slumbers

    Golden Slumbers

    Golden slumbers kiss your eyes, Smiles awake you when you rise; Sleep, pretty wantons, do not cry, And I will sing a lullaby, Rock them, rock them, lullaby. Care is heavy, therefore sleep you, You are care, and care must keep you; Sleep, pretty wantons, […]

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  • Keeping My Hand In

    Four years on, I'm in a slump and I'm really just keeping my hand in.

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  • Richard Linklater: ‘Waking Life’

    Richard Linklater’s Waking Life (2001) is, even for such an unusual director, an unusual film. From the very beginning, the bizarre  ‘Rotoscope’ animation technique, (also used in A Scanner Darkly, 2006)  jars the viewer, challenging us to take on the tension between the cartoon fabric […]

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  • Third Eye

    Cipher on a Wall: Of Mind, Memories, and Dreams

    The mind is a stage. Does this sound familiar? Descartes continues: where ideas are illuminated by the inner light of reason. In 1973 a Mormon Apostle, Boyd K. Packer, ventured into the realm of mind with a riff on René: The mind is like a […]

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