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\"Paula<\/a>Welcome to our Saturday post on Creativity. This week I feature a post on creativity and dreaming by guest columnist, Paula Chaffee Scardamalia<\/strong>, Story Muse and Dream Coach. How do you use dreams to enhance your creativity and defeat your creative block monster? Please share in the comments! And enjoy!<\/p>\n

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The process of creating is related to the process of dreaming although when you are writing you’re doing it and when you’re dreaming, it’s doing you.<\/em>
\n— Robert Stone<\/p>\n

Creative block and blank pages are no fun, especially if you have deadlines looming.\u00a0 After 20 years of personal dreamwork, and more than ten years of teaching dreamwork to writers, I know that dreams are a great source of inspiration AND a wonderful weapon against the Creative Block Monster. Your spontaneous sleep dreams will often provide new ideas and insights.\u00a0 Or you can incubate a dream, asking a specific question about your writing project before you go to sleep and see how your dreams answer.<\/p>\n

But the first challenge is remembering those spontaneous or incubated sleep dreams.\u00a0 One of the easiest ways to strengthen dream recall is by being alert to those dreams that come to you in that period between waking and sleeping and between sleeping and waking.\u00a0 Use the time of falling asleep or waking up to catch images, thoughts, lists of words, or even the tune that is running unendingly through your head.<\/p>\n

Strengthen your dream recall muscle by recording whatever shows up in that half drowsy state, even if you only remember one image, like a boy in a sailor suit.\u00a0 Give the feeling, image, or song a title.\u00a0 Sometimes, this process will trigger the memory of a dream earlier that night.<\/p>\n

\"weaving-scardamalia\"<\/a>Be patient with yourself.\u00a0 Just as with writing, different people have different dreaming styles.\u00a0 Some people are active and busy dreamers, remembering several dreams in one night, especially around the full and new moons, while others will only occasionally remember a dream.\u00a0 Practice, though, does make a difference.<\/p>\n

If you have trouble recalling your dreams, date your paper or the page in your journal for the next day and write an affirmation that you will dream and upon waking, remember your dreams.\u00a0 Keep the paper or journal close to hand so you can stay in a relaxed twilight state upon waking.<\/p>\n

When you do wake from a dream, don\u2019t move.\u00a0 Let me repeat\u2014don\u2019t move!\u00a0 When you move your head after a dream, something about the change in gravity seems to whisk that dream back to the Land of Nod.
\nRemaining still, gather your dream back to you.\u00a0 I usually do a replay of my dream at least two or three times to make sure it has completely registered before I rollover, or sit up to record the dream in my journal.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s how to record your dreams:<\/strong><\/p>\n

1.\u00a0\u00a0 Give your dream a title.\u00a0 This sharpens the dream image and your emotional response to it.\u00a0 Enter the title and page number on the Table of Contents page of your journal or at the top of your paper.<\/p>\n

2.\u00a0\u00a0 Record the dream in as much detail as memory and time allows.\u00a0 Do not worry about grammar and punctuation (no inner critic here, please).\u00a0 Record using present tense<\/span>!\u00a0 Number the pages for easy reference.<\/p>\n

3.\u00a0\u00a0 Enter any significant symbol, character, or setting in separate sections of your journal. Over time, take note of repeating images or themes.<\/p>\n

4.\u00a0\u00a0 Go back through the dream and underline any words or phrases that you respond to strongly or any images that strike your fancy.\u00a0 You can journal more about these, or use cuttings from magazines, brochures, photos, etc., and paste them into place.\u00a0 Add to the images with pencil or crayon.<\/p>\n

5.\u00a0\u00a0 Pay attention to the people in your dreams.\u00a0 They could be great characters for a story.\u00a0 Many popular novelists, like William Styron (Sophie\u2019s Choice)<\/em> and Stephen King, have used characters from their dreams.<\/p>\n

6.\u00a0\u00a0 Look at your dreamscapes.\u00a0 You can use them for setting or mood.<\/p>\n

Creative Block has a hard time defeating you when you record your dreams, because the dreams in your dream journal are a rich resource of creative ideas, images, metaphors, setting, mood, story line, conflict, and character that can be mined and referred to over and over again.<\/p>\n

Dreams have been an important writer\u2019s tool from Dante to Poe to Stephen King and Isabel Allende.\u00a0 And best of all, they are a tool that is free and accessible to everyone, and the more you work with your dreams, the easier it will be to defeat the Creative Block Monster.<\/p>\n

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Paula Chaffee Scardamalia<\/strong>, Story Muse and Dream Coach, uses dreams, tarot, rituals and journals to help you discover your personal, creative, or business story, and deliver that story to the world.\u00a0 She is a speaker, writer and the award-winning author of Weaving a Woman’s Life: Spiritual Lessons from the Loom<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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