There are different kinds of dreams, such as my dream to someday get out of this current job and work in the field of art. Dreams occur throughout the night and we do not remember the majority of them. They occur during REM sleep as I have read. I would suspect that dreams happen also in deep sleep but are much harder to grab onto and remember when being awakened during that time. Dreams are real and visceral to the mind. Dreams also are a great source of inspiration particularly to Surrealists.
The brain needs dreams to survive. The amount of information we absorb in a day needs to be compacted and stored and filed. Dreams help your mind do this by placing the information into meaningful packages and storing it away next to some eager neuron. If you think you do not dream, you are fooling yourself. Get someone to wake you up around 4 am while you are in REM and have the recorder on because you may wake up just enough to spout off what you were dreaming about but then fall back asleep and forget it.
These images in our head that are our dreams are most meaningful to us as individuals. Me dreaming about the color Yellow and the color Red and all the different ways in which those colors are used has meaning to me. It was a part of my focus that day and weighs heavily on my mind. For someone else the same dream may mean something entirely different despite what Dream Interpretation books say. It is this difference of meaning that is relied upon in Surrealists' paintings. Dali's melting clocks and ants means different things to different people. Magritte's eye in the sky falls into the same category. And because we are not forced into a particular meaning such as the crucifixion of Christ or the Last Supper, we can discuss many aspects about the possibilities behind the painting.
"Tombstone beneath my skin" is a phrase that came out of a dream about a week ago. Its meaning however is not very obvious to me. Some other phrases came out of the dream but I have since forgotten them. "Tombstone beneath my skin", however, has stuck. Possible images to come out this are RIP epitaphs decorated around the body, or maybe small bits of stone protruding from the skin. It is an enigmatic phrase that I will leave up to you to interpret.
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