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Happiness, Autumn, and Winter

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Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home. ~Edith Sitwell

Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius. ~Pietro Aretino

Christmas is coming, snow is falling, the time is right for such a pretty sight to enjoy all the colorful Christmas lights. ~T.S. Garp

Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting and autumn a mosaic of them all. ~Stanley Horowitz

Winter sends a blanket of ice to cover the past summer’s face and melts come spring to shine with new brighter face. ~T.S. Garp

Every winter,
When the great sun has turned his face away,
The earth goes down into a vale of grief,
And fasts, and weeps, and shrouds herself in sables,
Leaving her wedding-garlands to decay -
Then leaps in spring to his returning kisses. ~Charles Kingsley

Winter dies into the spring, to be born again in the autumn. ~Marche Blumenberg

Autumn shakes off summer and replaces it with a frozen cascading divine. ~T.S. Garp

The one red leaf, the last of its clan, That dances as often as dance it can, Hanging so light, and hanging so high, On the topmost twig that looks up at the sky ~Samuel Taylor Coleridge

No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace
As I have seen in one autumnal face. ~John Donne

You have the power to create your own reality and subconsciously your dreams will come true. ~T.S. Garp

Your imagination has much to do with your life. … It is for you to decide how you want your imagination to serve you. ~Philip Conley

You have to believe in happiness, or happiness never comes. ~Douglas Malloch

Direct your consciousness forward into Earth’s future and see a world blossoming with Harmony and Peace. The time is now to awaken yourself as a spiritual being and co-creator of this universe. ~T.S. Garp

Creative Dreaming

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 22:18:29 +0000

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Has anyone ever had a dream that was so vivid it seemed real and upon waking from this dream you obtained some kind of insight or inspiration? Personally, I for one have on many occasions. In fact I wrote a whole manuscript based on a dream or rather a series of dreams, 300 pages! I remember in the first dream, the one of the most importance, I was sitting on grassy slope directly under a tree. It was a wooded area but the type of place that would make a lovely spot for a picnic. A being of light made his way to me and stood over me and said “You are a writer, you always have been and you always will be!” I did not say anything in the dream as I felt it was in my best interests to listen rather then be heard. He then pointed to my hands and instantly a pen and paper appeared and he said, “Write this!”

Suddenly I was somewhere else. I had no involvement in this dream whatsoever and it was as though I was simply a bystander, standing on the sidelines watching as the dream played out. The dream was very intense, there was a war raging on around me but not between humans, it was a war between angels and demons. I will give no further information about the dream as it would ruin the basis of my book but when I awoke from it the first thing I did was get a pen and paper. Roughly 2 hours later I popped my head back up into reality and sitting before me was the first 20 pages of my book .Over the next two years I had dreams all related to main one and ended up with a manuscript.

In light of this I began to do research as to this phenomena because I had heard before that some writers actually get a lot of their ideas from dreams, which is called creative dreaming but what I was wrong about is throughout history not only literary figures have been inspired by dreams but painters, musicians, scientists, architects and even inventors have become inspired by thier dreams.

The 18th century Italian composer Giuseppe Tartini once dreamt he sold his soul to the devil who then played a violin piece more exquisite then anything ever heard before. The following morning Tartini composed his greatest work, ‘The Devils Trill’ sonata,saying it was only a pale reflection of the music he had heard in his dream. Albert Einstein said he received many signs and clear images from his dreams in formulating his scientific theories.

In 1797 English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge suffered from an illness and sedated himself with opium before dozing off into a vivid dream. He awoke a few hours later with 300 lines of beautiful poetry within his mind from this dream and began to quickly write them. After writing 54 lines he was then interrupted by a visitor. When the visitor finally left and hour later,the poet returned to his work prepared to write the rest,however;the remaining lines and verses had faded from his mind. What he did manage to record however; was the masterpiece ‘Kubla Khan’.

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After awaking from a horrific nightmare one stormy night Mary Shelly wrote Frankenstein.

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Albert Einstein said he received many signs and clear images from his dreams helping him in formulating his scientific theories.

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Robert Louis Stevenson first imagined Dr. Jekell and Mr Hyde through a dream.

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Elias Howe had been struggling to design a sewing machine when one night he dreamt of savage warriors whose spears had eye shaped holes. This was very clue that inspired him to create the model of the eye pointed needle.

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There are many more instances such as the above,however; the point is it is very evident dreams do play a significant creative role in our society, so much in fact it makes me wonder how many people are actually aware of this.

Perhaps creative dreams come from a higher source or power such as angels, maybe even demons, who really knows for sure, they may even come from the spirits of the dead although it is also possible that dreams emerge from our own subconscious memories and knowledge, normally hidden in the waking mind but whatever it is,it is quite apparent that creative dreaming can be of high value and importance!

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 – 1834)

English poet and philosopher, best known for his poems “Kubla Khan” and “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.” In 1816, he overheard his name mentioned in a hotel by a man who was reading aloud a newspaper account of a coroner’s inquest. Intrigued, he requested for the paper, and was told that “it was very extraordinary that Coleridge the poet should have hanged himself just after the success of his play (”Remorse”), but he was always a strange mad fellow.” Coleridge quickly responded: “Indeed, sir, it is a most extraordinary thing that he should have hanged himself, be the subject of an inquest, and yet that he should at this moment be speaking to you.” In fact, there was a man who had fallen from a tree in Hyde Park; and his sole identification was his shirt which bore the mark “S. T. Coleridge.” Coleridge believed the shirt was probably stolen from him.

Marcus Garvey (1887 – 1940)

National hero of Jamaica; Black nationalist and founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League (UNIA-ACL). After having suffered a stroke in January 1940, he read in the Chicago Defender dated June 10th of the same year his own obituary, negatively describing him as “broke, alone and unpopular.” And as a result, he suffered another stroke and died.

Hiroo Onoda (1922 – )

World War II Japanese army intelligence officer stationed in the Philippines. After the war, he survived three decades hiding in Philippine jungles in the sincere belief that the war had not ended. He, along with three fellow soldiers, continued their battle, executing many local Filipinos in the process. Every effort to convince him that the war was over was considered an enemy trap. Officially declared as dead in 1959, he only yielded himself in 1974, when his commanding officer was called out of retirement to personally order him to surrender. He was accorded a hero’s welcome upon his return to Japan and wrote an autobiography “No Surrender: My Thirty-Year War,” describing his years fighting a war that was long over.

Fidel Castro (1926 – )

Revolutionary leader who led Cuba from 1959 until his retirement in 2008. In 2003, it was discovered that his draft obituary could be accessed from the CNN website without a password. Apparently, it had used Ronald Reagan’s as a template, describing him as “lifeguard, athlete, movie star.”

Joe DiMaggio (1914 – 1999)

New York Yankee baseball player and second husband of Marilyn Monroe. On January 1999, NBC prematurely broadcast his death as a text report moving across the bottom of the TV screen, which was seen by DiMaggio himself. The text was pre-written in response to newspaper reports that DiMaggio was near death due to lung cancer, and put on the air when a technician pushed the wrong button. He died on the 8th of March.

Ernest Hemingway (1899 – 1961)

1953 Pulitzer and 1954 Nobel Prize-winning American writer and journalist, whose famous novels include “The Old Man and the Sea” and “A Farewell to Arms.” Newspaper reported that he and his fourth wife Mary had perished after both figured in two successive African plane crashes in 1954. However, Hemingway survived, but suffered serious injuries that affected him for the remainder of his life. It was claimed that he reads a collection of his own obituaries every day with a glass of champagne following the incident.

Friedrich Gulda (1930 – 2000)

Austrian classical and jazz pianist and composer. In 1999, he sent a fax report to the Austrian News Agency of his own death from a stroke at the Zurich airport. Not long after, he revealed he was still very much alive and would be performing a “Resurrection Recital” complete with go-go dancers. He frequently played practical jokes to exasperate the musical authorities, thus earning him the title “terrorist pianist.”

Vince McMahon (1945 – )

American professional wrestling promoter and World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) chairman. On June 11, 2007 live edition of RAW, he was “presumed dead” after the limousine he entered exploded, and a tribute was instantaneously made in his honor on the WWE website. However, on June 25, 2007, the scheduled memorial for him was cancelled in the wake of the “actual” double murder and suicide of Chris Benoit; instead, he emerged in an empty stadium revealing that the explosion had only been a stunt. The entire planned storyline was immediately discarded in deference for those who had died.

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. (1917 – 2007)

American Pulitzer Prize recipient and historian. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette mentioned about his death on its November 29 2005 edition. Three days later, it withdrew the reference saying, “We are embarrassed but happy for Mr. Schlesinger.”

Bertrand Russell (1872 – 1970)

Welsh philosopher, historian and mathematician. In 1920, he contracted pneumonia during his one-year teaching stint in Beijing accompanied by his fourth wife Dora; and soon, erroneous reports of his demise were published by the Japanese media. So when he and his wife visited Japan on their return trip, Dora informed the media that “Mr. Bertrand Russell, having died according to the Japanese press, is unable to give interviews to Japanese journalists.” The press did not take the sarcasm well.

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