Envisioning the Dream Through Art and Science (Imagery and by Robert G. Kuzendorf,James Veatch

This monograph is the manufactured from an interdisciplinary experiment--an creative test and a mental experiment--focused on goals. encouraged through the superiority of dream imagery and "dream common sense" in surrealist artwork, the authors requested a hundred artwork scholars to create electronic photos representing severe scenes from certainly one of their desires, then to create a surrealist university from the electronic photographs. The ensuing collages are inclined to trap the surreality anticipated in genuine works of surrealist artwork, as collages incorporated within the ebook illustrate. encouraged additionally via the mental challenge of learning different minds, the authors requested the a hundred artwork scholars to explain their dream in writing, to interpret their dream, and to accomplish character measures: the quick type of the Boundary Questionnaire and the short Symptom stock. The paintings scholars' ratings on specific character scales have been discovered to be statistically linked to specific dream features, a lot of that are visually observable within the digitized dream photographs created by means of artwork scholars with specific personalities yet are usually not verbally discernible within the dream descriptions written by way of those self same scholars. The appendix comprises, for every paintings pupil, the digitally imaged dream, the written description and written interpretation of the dream, and rankings at the Boundary Questionnaire and at the melancholy, nervousness, hostility, and somatization scales of the short Symptom stock. The ebook concludes with a bibliography and an index to a couple of the visible parts within the a hundred digitized dream images.