Welcome to a new Season! I am very excited for this one. In typical Vanessa-I-want-to-put-my-own-spin-on-everything-fashion, I decided to have a double sided journal for this Season. I used an Anselm bookbinding kit I had bought years ago from Peg and Awl.
On the one side, you have Dreams.
Flip the journal over and you have the Nightmares side.
I am quite excited to use this journal this way. I will interpret each prompt through these two lenses. Here are my pages for the first week.
Dreams side: I had a very happy dream where a friend put on a blue dress and laughed and posed for photos. Blue isn’t a colour I normally associate with such happiness, but it was definitely a euphoric moment.
I used lots of glitter and some sequins that I taped down with packing tape.
The second spread shows all of the keywords I looked up in the Dream Dictionary.
Now, let’s turn the journal around and look at the Nightmares side. I don’t have nightmares all that often, but when I do, they leave a very deep impression on me. Curiously, this nightmare also featured the colour blue. That was a bad one, being rejected by your lover who sets you aside for your mother?! I put on the blue cloak and walked through the crowd, crying. I woke up quite distraught!
I used my calligraphy nib and ink for the crowd and some tissue paper for the cloak.
Again this second nightmare spread shows the words I looked up.
It’s too bad the word “blue” wasn’t there. I looked it up in a Symbolism Dictionary I have at home and it seems that blue is associated with depth of feeling, with going through the looking glass, of purity (hence the Virgin Mary’s cloak) and with immateriality.
I love your take on the season! What an intense dream, where your mother was chosen over you…. crazy!
I didn't want to journal about my intense dreams and now they have faded. Once again you inspire me to be brave. I love how your portrayed the crowd, and I can see the depth of feeling in your women and pages.
You are so brave, I didn't dare to journal my nightmares. I probably should but I'm not sure I want to put them on the net.
Oh wow V – what an awesome idea. I'm really struggling with recording actual dreams so my pages are really taking a different approach. Such diversity in this lovely community.