Art-directed perception is crucial to face the ever-changing environment, and in some situations, it may be crucial to be able to change the way wood nymphs think and dream.
A penny for your thoughts. Birds are the only non-mammalian group to exhibit slow-wave sleep and rapid eye movement sleep.
Dreams create highly creative mixtures of memories and knowledge. A beautiful picture has a much greater chance of belonging to a good story than an ugly one. Dreaming is important for hapiness.
"A painting is a visual history of all the tiny decisions, many totally subconscious, that coalesce into what we call a painting."
Because sight is not vision, enigmatic symbols of fancy orientalism used as fantasy-like figures are real odalisques.
What to do with my dream ?
Make it memorable. Art feeds the passions and impairs reason. Craving for mechanistic explanations of everything, I have always known dreaming was visual in nature, made of images formed outside conscious control, from our perspective only.
A life spent making daydreams is more useful than a life spent doing nothing. One reason why this has been difficult to discern is that art websites typically contain silly pictures with serious text as movement in art. Life is art because humans dream in color.
Francis Bacon
How to stop daydreaming in the classroom?
Art awakes sleepers and unconscious theory explain dreams.
How about the wistful dreaming that quality of life would be better if we stop daydreaming? Unconscious drawing, subliminal drawing.
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