Sweet Dreams
You’re engaged in some routine activity, or maybe just out taking a walk, thinking of nothing in particular, when suddenly, seemingly out of nowhere, an idea or thought pops into your mind that is just so enthralling that you have to let your mind float with it for a little while.
This is your subconscious mind at work, taking you along for a little right-brained ride in your imagination – in a daydream. While many negative things have been said about daydreaming, I’ve noticed that if I let my mind drift with them, at least on occasion, I tend to come away with some insights that I might not have gotten by trying to rationally or analytically approach things.
You might want to try it sometime, by just letting your mind drift with your imagination for a little while, maybe once in a while. Oh, I’m not saying to make too much of a habit of it, but if you’re like most people, you’ve probably been taught to avoid daydreaming, even occasionally…
Sweet Dreams (Poem)
What’s that way up in the sky?
Wait – I can’t believe my eyes!
It floats among the clouds and dances with the stars;
if it’s drifted here past Mars then I wouldn’t be surprised.
I wish that I could lick it as it floats across my dreams;
or maybe I’ll just ride it to its innermost extremes.
Who knows what places it will take me; who knows which spaces I will find?
I feel curious as a kitten with the travel bug a-bitten as I ride the tasty daydream as it swims across my mind!
Sweet Dreams
NOTES ON THE CREATIVE PROCESS: I wrote the poem while viewing the picture, which I had created previously. And so the poem was inspired by the picture. This is an example of ekphrasis , in which one artform tries to describe the meanings and feelings that have been expressed in another artform, and thus becomes interrelated with it.
…DID YOU NOTICE? The image might have reminded you of an ice cream cone, and the colors may be said to be in “sherbet hues”. Just as we can sometimes have very “tasty” daydreams and imaginations, so an image can be made to evoke a sense of “taste” through your eyes. This is getting into synesthesia , where the stimulation of one of your senses (such as sight) is able to evoke some of your other senses (such as taste).