Up: [[Dreams]] Created: 2025-10-26 Whatever visual work you do, put it someplace private but where you can see it often. When there’s no longer energy when you look at it, the image you’ve created has served its purpose. ### Map It This isn’t a mind map. It’s a simple drawing that maps where things are and what’s happening in the dream. This is particularly helpful if there’s a lot of movement and change that’s hard to track. ### Make a Simple Sketch We’re literally talking stick figure people and houses that are boxes with triangles on top. If there are animals, make them stick figure or just draw the part that shows the animal’s essence, such as an open triangle with teeth to represent an alligator. Ignore perspective. If something feels big in the dream, make it big on the paper. If your inner critic is active for even a simple sketch, use your non-dominant hand where there can be zero expectation of skill. ### Make a Mask Cut or tear mixed media paper into the shape of the dream image’s face. Cut out places for eyes. Don’t worry about being accurate. If the eyes felt big in the dream, make them big. If you think the dream image’s mouth would be open, cut a hole for it. Paint or collage the mask without planning anything. Focus on the image’s spirit. Write down the words that occur to you when you first look at the mask. Then hold it up and look in the mirror. Write down what occurs to you this time. ### Make an Energy Painting If possible, do this when you’re still in bed, have just woken from the dream and have written or recorded it. Close your eyes and replay the dream. When you’re experiencing the emotions of the dream in your body, half-open your eyes, and choose a colour or colours from the dry media you have placed nearby — crayons, markers, pencil crayons, or pastels. Use your out-breathe to breathe the energy you’re feeling through your arm and hand and on to the page. Keep going until you feel that the energy generated by the dream is now out of your body and on to the page. ### Make a Collage This is one of my favourite techniques. The collage can be narrative or it can represent the feelings in the dream. Sometimes I write from the perspective of the collage. I almost always have fresh insights when I make collages of my dreams. ### Make a Down Deep Painting See [[The Down Deep]] Process. ### Work with Clay Something magical happens when you take a small chunk of clay and start squeezing and forming it as you think about your dream. Don’t plan, just see what emerges as either an image or an emotion from your dream. ### More Involved Art Ideas If you really want to be inspired to go wild with creative responses to your dreams, look at Victoria Rabinowe’s course listed in Sources below. Although you do have to pay for it, it’s good value for money if, like me, you watch it many times. Also, Jung Platform does a 40% off sale around the U.S. Black Friday in November so you can wait for that. Victoria shares handmade books, dream cards and board games among other techniques. > [!User] Two Excellent Sources > Book: *The Art of Dreaming: Tools for creative dream work* by Jill Mellick > > Course: The Dream Journal: Source of Soulful Creativity by Victoria Rabinowe on [Jung Platform](https://jungplatform.com/store/the-dream-journal-source-of-soulful-creativity) >