Today, many people will admit to having creative flashes of inspiration following dreams. It is as though a missing piece of jigsaw suddenly fits into place, allowing them to see the whole picture and therefore to make sense of a creative problem. Often a fragment of music, poetry or apparent doggerel will linger in the mind, which on consideration is not as beautiful or pertinent as it once seemed in the dream, but it may contain the key for moving an idea or a project forward.


The mind can open up to possibilities and potentials far beyond the waking consciousness. Meditation can often aid in this process of creative dreaming, whether we use it before sleep to open up to the creative self or use it after dreaming to gain a greater understanding. Part of the process of using inspiration as a dream tool is to be able to remove the restrictions placed on us by the society in which we live. We need to know and understand ourselves what makes us the unique individuals that we are, as well as what we need to do to bring out our best qualities. The way a child grows in understanding as it matures is a good matrix for spiritual and
creative growth.

As adults, with the realization that we are very much part of a greater whole, we can begin to take responsibility for the creation of a better, fuller existence for ourselves and finally accept that, by doing so, we can build a better and more stable future. Whatever stage of understanding we may have reached, dreams can help and encourage us or indicate that we are going down a particular route which may not be worthwhile. Dreams can be taken as events in their own right and be interpreted as such. Whether they make sense, or whether we choose to act on the information given, is decided by us and us alone. We can also accept dreams as an expression of the unconscious creative self, which can contain a message given either in an easy-to-understand form or in the language of symbolism,
where initially the meanings are not easily discernible. It is when we begin to recognize the creativity behind the process of
dreaming that we open ourselves up to different ways of approaching our own talents and abilities in a novel way.