Recurring Dreams of Knitting
I knit. As a lot of women do. But I've never knit compulsively and obsessively like I was doing in my dreams. I began knitting because I was unhappy with what was being sold in the stores. I wanted an outlet for my energy, that was productive and portable and I don't know about anyone who can stuff a sewing machine in her purse. (I dreamed I tried, though.) Lately, however, I have dream about knitting.
The generic psychology of dreams told me that dreaming about knitting represented my longing for domesticity, which didn't make sense to me and certainly didn't explain why I kept dreaming of intricate designs in vibrant colors. Then I found DreamsCloud at http://www.dreamscloud.com/common-dreams and they gave me some wonderful suggestion. This is that good dream interpretation relies upon both the cultural psychology of dreams and what the dreamer thinks and feels about her or his dreams, life, and personal psychology.
I took DreamsCloud's advice and started keeping a dream journal of my recurring dreams. After a few weeks I realized my knitting dreams were not about domesticity but about creativity, with color and with line. If you're a knitter, you know that what came next was charts and buying yarn, lining up motifs just so in colors that play well together. I love different colors, after the suggestions of DreamsCloud I started realizing that the dream is just an awakening call to make my dream into reality.
As the project progressed and I used DreamCloud's journal more and more, I realized I was not only remembering my recurring dreams much better, I was using them to solve design problems. In my recurring dreams, I played with math and folded charts magically, saw color combinations that I would never have thought of while awake—all of this without having to knit them out. (These techniques are called conscious dreaming and DreamsCloud encourages people to do it.) Of course, dream time is magic time, and dream interpretation is necessary to make use of dreams, but I found my dreams gave me good insights into what I was actually designing while knitting it for real. The standard psychology of dreams would have been much less helpful to me than DreamsCloud's encouragement to me to dream consciously, and use dream interpretation in a way that made sense to do something I'd always wanted to, but been afraid to.
The generic psychology of dreams told me that dreaming about knitting represented my longing for domesticity, which didn't make sense to me and certainly didn't explain why I kept dreaming of intricate designs in vibrant colors. Then I found DreamsCloud at http://www.dreamscloud.com/common-dreams and they gave me some wonderful suggestion. This is that good dream interpretation relies upon both the cultural psychology of dreams and what the dreamer thinks and feels about her or his dreams, life, and personal psychology.
I took DreamsCloud's advice and started keeping a dream journal of my recurring dreams. After a few weeks I realized my knitting dreams were not about domesticity but about creativity, with color and with line. If you're a knitter, you know that what came next was charts and buying yarn, lining up motifs just so in colors that play well together. I love different colors, after the suggestions of DreamsCloud I started realizing that the dream is just an awakening call to make my dream into reality.
As the project progressed and I used DreamCloud's journal more and more, I realized I was not only remembering my recurring dreams much better, I was using them to solve design problems. In my recurring dreams, I played with math and folded charts magically, saw color combinations that I would never have thought of while awake—all of this without having to knit them out. (These techniques are called conscious dreaming and DreamsCloud encourages people to do it.) Of course, dream time is magic time, and dream interpretation is necessary to make use of dreams, but I found my dreams gave me good insights into what I was actually designing while knitting it for real. The standard psychology of dreams would have been much less helpful to me than DreamsCloud's encouragement to me to dream consciously, and use dream interpretation in a way that made sense to do something I'd always wanted to, but been afraid to.
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