A map of acupuncture points, all glowing. An attic full of artist paints. A dark faceless figure so black the dreamer is struck with terror. Yes, you are on the right path. These dream images all demonstrate signs of the inner processes that guide us to become more fully integrated as human and spiritual beings.
Dreams are the workshop of evolution.
Yet the creative implications of our dreaming move far beyond the individual. In James Joyce's Ulysses, the young artist Stephen Dedaelus vows, I go forth to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of the race. Our dreams live closest to the creative source, the fertile void which mystics and scientists alike call the field of all-possibility. Everyone of us is a genius when we sleep, says a popular dreamworker. Creativity is the central characteristic of reality.