Sunday March 29 * 1130am-130pm * ONLINE WORKSHOP
Netflix isn’t the only game in town, you know. Every night you dream scenarios and situations enough to keep a housebound audience occupied for days. Mostly we lose these dreams before we have a chance to appreciate them, and that’s ok. We’re not going to catch everything offered on Hulu, either. But in catching dreams, and devoting to them the kind of attention we would to a good book or movie, we may just find, as countless artists, pioneers of modern psychology, scholars and scientists have done, sources of insight and inspiration, and a deeper understanding of ourselves. Even if you never remember your dreams, you can easily master a few simple tricks to catch them before they fly away, and establish a practice for keeping a dream journal, tracking dreams, and drawing upon them as a resource for inspiration and insight.
This two-hour workshop will introduce that practice, with digressions into modern psychology and neurobiology of dreaming, dream theory in other eras and cultures, and creativity and the arts. As time permits, we’ll discuss participants’ patterns of dreaming. Come with questions if you like. This is a lay person’s introduction to dreams and dreaming. Dr. Welt is a professor of humanities, not psychology, with long experience in guiding dream-sharing groups and workshops on the dream journal as a practice for artists and writers. This workshop can serve as an introduction to The Dream Journal: A User’s Guide, offered as a continuing online course via Rhizome DC in March-April 2020.
About the instructor: Bernard Welt has taught dream studies courses at the Corcoran School of the Arts and Design at George Washington University and at St. Mary’s College of Maryland. He is the co-author, with Phil King and Kelly Bulkeley, of Dreaming in the Classroom: Practices, Methods, and Resources in Dream Education (State University Press of New York), the first major academic study of the use of dreams in education. A former member of the board of directors of the International Association for the Study of Dreams, he is a widely-recognized authority on dreaming and its relation to cinema. He is also the author of Mythomania: Fantasies, Fables, and Sheer Lies in Contemporary American Popular Art, and of poetry in many journals and anthologies, including The Best American Poetry.
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