Dream I am in the ocean. The dream begins with me waking up to the fact that I am in the ocean, as if I had been sleeping, floating and drifting in the water and wasn’t aware of where I was until this moment. I’m pretty far out to sea. I see the numbers 1,2,3 and 4, inside circles, floating low in the sky, marking different spots in the ocean. I don’t know if the numbers indicate danger or if they are showing me the way to go as I swim to shore? I start swimming. I have no idea if I’ll have the strength and stamina to make it to the shore. At one point a very strong current carries me sideways. I say out loud, to the ocean, “I trust you, Mother.” I yield completely to her power and soon after I am safely standing on the shore.
I wanted to depict this dream in 3-D, so I made a little diorama out of paper, using the top and bottom of a small cardboard box which originally held greeting cards. I covered the top and bottom with blue paper. I had some left-over wrapping paper printed with a stylized Japanese representation of waves, so I cut strips of that out. I drew waves on strips of white paper and colored them with colored markers. I printed out the numbers I needed, and a drawing that I found online of a woman swimming, and colored that strip of paper and her swim suit with colored markers.
Four strips are folded along their bottom edges and are glued down to the inside bottom of the box, and the front strip is glued to the front of the box, to help create depth. A piece of blue paper was glued into the box top, to suggest sky. A piece of blue paper which has the words “I trust you, Mother” was cut into a cloud shape and suspended by a thread from the top of the box. The cloud also serves as a cartoon bubble, showing what the swimmer says in the dream.
I printed out the written dream and pasted it onto the back of the diorama. Incorporating (or hiding) the written dream somewhere on a dream creativity project helps to me to unify, and remember, the dream that sparked the creativity.
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