These nocturnal messages are an incredibly effective source of inspiration for our writing and our lives. Students will receive a lesson in understanding dreams and then learn how to use their dreams to overcome creative blocks, find their message, and draw on dream material to write poems, articles, books, movies. Students will hear inspirational stories about both famous and everyday people who have used dreams in their creative work and learn tools for understanding dreams. They will receive instructor and class feedback on projects that integrate dream material and garner support from other writers. In this day of gurus, instant authorities and experts, celebrity heroes,technological answers, and generalized cures, we need to be able to trust ourselves and our own innate guidance.
Dreams offer an always present, natural source of creativity.
They provide a fun, easy, and valuable way to write. Walt Whitman once described life as a powerful play that goes on and on, in which our only task is to figure out what our verse will be. In this course, students will use their dreams to find that verse and ways to express it. Blocks Be Gone. How dreams can help overcome chronic creative blocks.