[wickedwings]

I like to draw with colored pencils. Every so often in my life, I would dream about art. When I am in my dreams of art, sometimes I know that I am asleep and dreaming.

I would find art and want to take the images with me into my reality (waking world) or home (home in my dream). I would gather them up or concentration on the image very hard so I could remember in my reality. In some dreams, it's just one image that I'm dealing with. The image I see would be so vivid, seem so real that it's almost more real than this reality, the waking world. I could see so much detail in the artwork, how the colors go. I could figure out how I could create the image with my colored pencils.

Once I wake up, I know when I've had an artistic dream because of the feeling that I get when I discover images in them. As I try to remember the images, all I could see in my mind's eye are blank canvases......

I'm like, where's the image.

Somehow it won't be revealed when I'm awake. Why????? I thought it was odd that it happens in every artistic dream, except for the one I had when I was in high school, which was so awe-inspiring to me. Man, it drove me crazy not to be able to remember the images of art that I wanted to bring into this reality.

Try to keep a dream diary or journal right beside your bed, with a pen.

Sometimes, when we immediately wake up, if we try to write down everything we can remember about the dream, your mind will open up and allow you to remember the images. Write down everything, even if it seems insignificant - like say you saw a blue end table - might not seem important, but write down that detail anyways.

Keep doing this for a while if you can. Always the second you wake up because the longer you go without writing it down the more details you will lose.

Another thing to do is right before you go to sleep say over and over in your mind " I want to remember this dream" or " I will remember this dream". They say that this can trigger the subconcious to store the dream in memory.

You obviously have an incredibly creative mind, thats a really good thing!

[wickedwings]

Hey, Rainbowz! Thanks for your suggestion! I used to keep a dream journal when I was young, mostly during teenage years. I had to give that up because it was taking so much to write out my dreams, since I was remembering about 10 dreams per night. And the dreams I had were so detailed. Some of the dreams had so many details in them that I felt like I needed to write them all out.

If I started doing the journal again, I'm going to have so many dreams to remember. Really detailed dreams to boot. But, hey, if that's how I was able to remember the one artistic dream in my high school. Why not? Those artistic dreams I had, I can remember everything that went on in the dreams, but not the images that I wanted to bring with me into this reality. Hmmmm. Artistic dreams don't come by very often, but it can't hurt to have a notepad and pen by the bed. If my cat doesn't knock things off of my nightstand (no drawer), it would be nice. LOL.