How many literary works have been foreseen in dreams? I think of Stevenson's Dr Jekyl and Mr Hyde. Or perhaps, a stretch, Ginsberg's Howl -- verse fueled by drugs (or does such inducement fall on the side of daydreaming? And what about Frankenstein, didn't Mary Shelley dream that as well?
Freud reminds us that often we are everyone in our dreams. The mind makes use of symbols to represent consciousness so fragmented. Often as not when we think we're dreaming (or writing) about one thing, we're dreaming (writing) about another -- or is it thousands of things all at once?
Ritual, inner ceremonies are so much part of the writing process. That workshop hidden so deep within each writer.
Of course, it's what we do with a dream once it creeps onto the page that counts. Got to flesh it out. Yeats seemed to be obsessed with tapping his innerself. So musical his work, so many exquisite revelations...
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