Dream Delving: Prospecting in your sleep for new writing ideas
Channel: Vancouver Island Regional Library
Date: 2022-12-06

How can you use dream interpretation and lucid dreaming to vitalize and enhance your writing? Carla will introduce you to techniques to understanding your dreams and ways to make the most of the writing gold that’s always been under your pillow.
In this presentation we’ll look at why dreams can help inspire and inform your writing, find out about lucid dreaming, and ways to keep track of the writer-ly nuggets that can be prospected from your dreams. We’ll also explore a selection of well-known books and writers that have been inspired by dreams.

Carla Stein’s poetry and illustrations have appeared in a wide variety of publications including Sustenance, Friday’s Poems, Stonecoast Review, Pocket Lint, Sad Girl Review, Please Hear What I’m Not Saying, Lemonspouting, The Belladonna, Polar Starlight, Centipede-Cha-Cha, and The Lotus Tree Review among other publications. Her work is forthcoming in Penumbric, Sea and Cedar Magazine and Quills Canadian Poetry Magazine. She has released two poetry pamphlets, Sideways Glances of an Everyday Sailor and Shrieking from the Shore. Carla is an associate member of the League of Canadian Poets and member of the League of Canadian Poets and the current artistic director of Wordstorm Society of the Arts. She makes art and writes from her home in Nanaimo, B.C. View her artwork at: www.roaeriestudio.com