“Recent research shows that we dream for about 20 percent of our sleeping hours, that is, between one and two hours each night. If we are disturbed during our dream phases we become nervous and irritable. This means nothing less than that everybody has an innate need to give artistic expression to his or her existential situation. After all, it is ourselves that our dreams are about. We are the directors, we set up the scenario and play all the rolls. A person who says she doesn’t understand Art doesn’t know herself very well.”

Jostein Gaarder, discussing Freud, dreams and art in his book Sophie’s World.

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Painting above by Salvador Dali

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