Up: [[Dreams]] Created: 2025-10-26 ### Word Blackout Blackout the text of your dream, any words that aren’t pithy. See what’s left. You could go further and make a poem of what’s left. See [[Erasure or Blackout Poetry]]. ### Write a Poem If writing a poem, include the sensory language from your dream, but leave out abstractions, explanations, and judgments. The poem doesn’t need to be a representation of the whole dream. Stop when it feels complete. ### Write Haiku This is a sense-based poem following the rule of seventeen syllables in three lines of 5/7/5. Stay with a single image for this poem. ### Remove Images Write the dream as a series of single sentences, one element or image per sentence. Then take turns omitting a single sentence at a time, writing down what is missed if that sentence isn’t there. An example by Jill Mellick is leaving out “the back seat” and what would be missing is “a sense of being led”. ### Make the Dream Eternal Add “when” and “then” wherever you can in the dream text. Change “when” to “whenever” so you can imagine that the pattern is always repeating in your life. ### Make the Dream Specific Add “only” to pay more attention to personal connections to the dream. An example from Jill Mellick: “I’m walking or driving. I’m responsible for my mother. I can’t find the entrance to the hotel.” Becomes “Only when I am walking or driving do I not know my way around.” “Only when I am responsible for my mother do I have trouble finding my way around.” “Only hotels seem unfamiliar.” ### Take Another Perspective Shift your point of view to see the dream from the perspective of characters other than your dream ego. You might want to have those other perspectives write to you, or perhaps you’ll dialogue with them. ### Write a Prequel or Sequel Use this technique if the dream opened with a puzzling image or if it ends on a cliff-hanger. What might have happened right before the dream began? What do you imagine might happen right after the dream ends? ### Mind Map It Make a mind map using symbols, codes, arrows and colour. This is a great way to make and see connections. > [!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) >