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Drawing dreams: Like being a kid again

Dream-Shirley & Curious George

(above) I dreamt that Shirley (from Everyday Matters) was a graphic designer who had done the covers for some Curious George books that were being published by the organization I work for. I thought of her in the dream as Shirley hemend (the last name is actually part of her email address and it was lower case in the dream too).

Drawing dreams is so much fun. It’s just like being a kid again, sitting around like I used to with crayons and scrap paper drawing whatever came to mind next, like the people in the picture below. Except for me and the singer, the rest of the people just appeared randomly: a guy with a bozo haircut behind the singer, the old lady beside her, a guy with a beret and lady with a big hat, all just random people floating around in my subconscious waiting for a chance to come hang out for awhile.

Dream - Goofy singer

(above) Dreamt I was in a big meeting room at work where a young goofy looking singer-songwriter guy was singing a song so beautiful and heartbreaking that it brought tears to my eyes and I fell in love with him — until I realized he was too young. I’m always 25 in my dreams and then at the end I remember I’m more than twice that.

Dream-Butterflies

(above) Dreamt that Leah and I were on the hike we took Saturday where we saw so many beautiful butterflies, but this time there were hundreds instead of dozens.

All images ink & watercolor in Handbook Company Journal.
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11 replies on “Drawing dreams: Like being a kid again”

I really enjoy your dream sketches, Jana! These are beautifully coloured, too. Do you tend to stick to an angle of view you remember from the actual dream, or do you prefer to interpret the scene more freely?

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Hi Jana – I’m impressed by how many you remember – I only seem to remember the ones that strike me as significant, and I do draw or collage those. Have you ‘trained’ yourself to remember more? Do you do these first thing? I’m curious bothe because I love the comic book kind of images you make from them, but also because I would like to remember more of mine.

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EJ-I don’t know if it’s conscious or not, but I do try to draw from the perspective I see things in the dream but I don’t get too attached or worried about what I end up drawing.
Heliocentric, I don’t know what a *p___ commentary is but I meant to make the book laying down facing the guy who is standing behind the counter as if he’d been reading it.

Sarah, I do write them down first thing in the morning or I’d never remember them. I try to draw them then too. I wrote about my methods for remembering them in my next post.

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