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Recreating Dreams: The “Surrealistic Pillow Project”– Photography by Ronen...
Ronen Goldman is a photographer with a great deal of dedication who recreates scenes from his own dreams. You can take a look at his stunning work here. Profound, whimsical and often both at the same...
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Quote for Today: J.M. Barrie
“You know that place between sleeping and awake, that place where you can still remember dreaming? That’s where I’ll always think of you.” ― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan Sweet dreams dreaming of Snow White...
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Quote for Today: Emily Brontë
I’ve dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas: they’ve gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the colour of my mind. ―Catherine...
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Quote for Today: Zhuangzi
© Flemming Christiansen with CCLicense I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man. –Zhuangzi
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Dreams of the Unreachable: Thoughts on Gabriel García Márquez’s Eyes of a...
Consciousness is the lens through which we interpret reality. But are we searching subconsciously for a reality that matches our dreams? Convex and Concave, M.C. Escher, 1955© Esteban Romero with...
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Quote for Today: Elias Canetti
Walking into the Land of Nightmares © Jo Sparkles with CCLicense All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams. –Elias Canetti
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Quote for Today: Viktor E. Frankl
Miami Holocaust Memorial by Kenneth Treister© ksaraf with CCLicense I shall never forget how I was roused one night by the groans of a fellow prisoner, who threw himself about in his sleep, obviously...
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Creativity and Eternity: The Aboriginal Dreamtime
Is the emphasis on a rational grasp of reality destroying the creativity and insight that come from dreams and myth? Manhole cover in Perth, Australia© Ole Reidar Johansen with CCLicense The indigenous...
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Quote for Today: Haruki Marukami
© CL Stock with CCLicense It was a rambling, incoherent dream without any setting. All that was there was a feeling of being in motion. Aomame was ceaselessly moving through time and space. It didn’t...
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Quote for Today: H.G. Wells
It is possible to believe that all the past is but the beginning of a beginning, and that all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn. It is possible to believe that all the human mind...
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Quote for Today: Shel Silverstein
My Beloved Ghost, passing by© Kristaps B. with CCLicense Masks She had blue skin, And so did he. He kept it hid And so did she. They searched for blue Their whole life through, Then passed right by-...
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Staring Into the Looking Glass: Creative People and Narcissism
Creative people are often accused of narcissism. Can we alter the negative stereotypes and bad behavior associated with artists? Narcissus by Caravaggio Greek mythology tells the story of Narcissus, a...
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Quote for Today: Stuart Dybek
© shezzz with CCLicense “I had this sudden awareness,” she continues, “of how the moments of our lives go out of existence before we’re conscious of having lived them. It’s only a relatively few...
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Quote for Today: Douglas Adams
© Joelogon with CCLicense For when you are put into the Vortex you are given just one momentary glimpse of the entire unimaginable infinity of creation, and somewhere in it a tiny little marker, a...
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Quote for Today: Carl Sagan
National Assembly Library, Paris© NonOmnisMoriar with CCLicense We are the only species on the planet, so far as we know, to have invented a communal memory stored neither in our genes nor in our...
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Moments from Other Lives: Thoughts on Haruki Murakami’s Kafka on the Shore
Are you attracted to characters and story lines that surprise you? Life doesn’t always make sense and neither does art. © semihundido with CCLicense Many literary works are peopled with stereotypes and...
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Quote for Today: Ursula K. LeGuin
We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains. –Ursula K. LeGuin Sarychev Volcano, Matua Island in the Kuril Islands,...
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Quote for Today: Kazuo Ishiguro
© Bob Jagendorf with CCLicense I’m interested in memory because it’s a filter through which we see our lives, and because it’s foggy and obscure, the opportunities for self-deception are there. In the...
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Rooted in Loneliness: Thoughts on Ray Bradbury’s The Fog Horn
Art, like life, relies on communication. What happens when empathy fails and we are struck by how unintelligible we are? Sometimes it seems that the only thing we can share is loneliness itself. © John...
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Quote for Today: Joseph Conrad
It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog. –Joseph Conrad The Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog, Caspar David Friedrich, 1818
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