[Nfb-krafters-korner] OT dreams

[Deidre Muccio]

Linda
The process you are describing is called "latent learning" I think. As a
former artist of sorts, fiction writing, visual, whatever, the more
something is on your mind, much is percolating beneath the surface. It's not
unusual to solve problems the way you describe. That doesn't make it any
less interesting or fun however!

	Deidre 

OMG, Joyce, you are a BIG DREAMER - who are you kidding?  I mean, let's just
expand the idea of what a dream is - you are a wide awake, walking,  living
dreamer.

I dream constantly - all I have to do is close my eyes, and in moments I am
off to places and situations. My dreams are always full of DRAMA...never the
kind of dreams that you want to close your eyes and go back to sleep and try
to resurrect.

But, have any of you every been wrestling with a craft or art problem you
could not solve? And, then, in a dream, you see yourself doing it and you
wake up knowing exactly how to do something you never did before? I sure
have.  I have figured out knitting problems in m sleep, and I even learned
math concepts that I had a hard time with, in my dream. (I learned how to do
"slope" in algebra that way, when my conscious mind could not "get it."
I dream for ideas - sometimes I wake up and write down things I am seeing in
my dreams - poems come that way to me at times.

I think we have such a creative mind, all of us, that dreams are a
continuation of our creative self.

Lynda