Darren Daz Cox, now in Pekin Illinois!
Why aren’t dreams simpler? because you, yes YOU are creative
Sometimes you can prove things to yourself that disprove popular beliefs of science, such as the law of conservation of energy that doesn’t seem to apply when you dream. Why bother to create an alternate reality in your dreams when you can just mash-up or recycle the information we already have in our heads? I almost always remember my dreams when I wake up and I often dream that I’m walking through art galleries, art departments in colleges and art studios and yet all the work I see in my dreams is original to my subconscious, it’s not even variations of what I paint when I’m awake or The Mona Lisa or famous art I’ve seen a billion times, so why go to the trouble to create new elements unless personal creativity is something essential? 
Just because we give scientists, psychologists and leaders of all types high praise for helping make sense of the world it doesn’t mean that they know why we dream and like art. Just look at the way art is treated by those same people, it’s either a hobby, a business, a therapy or a charity, rarely is it considered fundamental to our existence. Even religious leaders who call God ‘The Creator’ and say we are ‘part of God’ and should follow ‘God’s lead’ usually don’t think creativity is anything more than an added bonus for certain people.
But everyone has crazy dreams, dreams that show that creativity is part of what makes you human and dreams that suggest that creativity is perhaps the core of what we are. Science is always telling us that ‘stuff rolls downhill’ and religion tells us that ‘if you pray hard enough, stuff will run uphill’ but only in your dreams do you willfully disregard these ‘expert’ testimonies and see that stuff can roll uphill just as easily as it does downhill and through the hill too. What does this mean then? It means that you are creative whether you like it or not. We know that dreaming is essential to health, and take it from me, someone who remembers his dreams, your subconscious is uniquely creative. You have the choice to cultivate and use your creativity as you wish but to say that you ‘have no creative spark’ or think that it’s just special people who have a ‘gift’ is just wrong, you have the gift too. 
Originally posted 2008-05-07 09:36:39. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
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May 7th, 2008 at 2:43 pm
Daz, I had a dream the other night that’s STILL with me, and I’m absolutely dying to talk to someone about it. Wanna? Email me….
May 7th, 2008 at 11:18 pm
Daz,
I really enjoyed that post, I agree with you, everyone is creative, it is just to what degree the rest of the world sees it! I mostly remember my dreams, sometimes I don’t, and there have been a few times when they were so chaotic that I couldn’t understand the meaning behind them. I hope all who read your post try to find out what their creativity is!
February 8th, 2010 at 10:43 pm
i agree that everyone is creative. everyone can make their own artwork and post it if they are willing