Dreamwork as Play (CV)
The term dreamwork has never felt quite right to me. The word work paired with the word dreams introduces an element of drudgery to an otherwise magical concept. Dreams are playful: They make puns, they joke, they poke fun at us when they think we need it.
Here are some suggestions for playing with your dreams:
- Make a playful poem out of your dreams: Take the key words and images from a dream report and put them together for the fun of it. In the process you might just get a new perspective on your dream!
Making this mask of a shadow figure in one of my dreams was a lot of fun. - Speaking of play-ing, act out a dream! Dream theater can be profound, but you’ll probably find yourself laughing, too, as you act out various parts of your dream.
- Look for puns and plays on words in your dreams & keep running lists of them in your journal.
Making dream art! - Pull down the shades, turn up the music and dance your dreams. (Go ahead, be silly, no one’s watching!)
- Pretend your dreams are real. Try this fill in the blank exercise: If my dream were real, today I’d (“… be running from a slasher…be shopping in Italy… be pregnant…be lost…leap over rooftops…see three moons rising over the ocean…”)
- Make a cartoon strip based on a dream
- Buy a figurine, fetish, or charm based on the animals that show up in your dreams and keep them together on a shelf in your home … watch your collection grow!
My squirrel puppet was purchased to remind me of a striking dream moment.
Now, was that really so hard? Hardly work at all, right?
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I enjoyed seeing how I might enjoy playing with my dreams. I think your ideas want to play to more audiences, op ed piece? Dreamtime? C
hapter in a book on dreams?
Hi David. Thank you 🙂 I like you suggestions! Maybe I’ll play some more with these ideas!
Great tips on how to incorporate playing into as much as your life as possible in all kinds of creative ways. I think I’m going to pull the blinds down now, turn up the music and dance!
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Go for it, Victoria 🙂 & Enjoy!
I just read this and am ready to have some dreams!
Hoping I dream tonight so I can try some of your ideas!
Great, Heather! Let me know how it goes 🙂
I never really thought about doing something substantial with my dreams. Gonna try some of your ideas!
Nicki
Hi Nicki,
Yes, I find that bringing dreams into waking life makes life more magical! Enjoy 🙂
great losener of the nerve here…
full play ahead. love it!
n♥
Hi N<3
Yes, indeed: Full play ahead!
I like all your suggestions, especially the one about acting out and dancing dreams – what a nice way to experience them while awake!
Thanks for visiting, Francesca 🙂 Happy acting and dancing!
Sounds like some fun is happening there dear sister Tzivia,
I love how you look in the polka dotted apron!!
Your dreams are bringing you to the fountain of youth which is in the same plaza of course as the fountain of play! Hooray! And good day!♡