The French Surrealist poet, St. Paul Boux, would hang a sign on his bedroom door before retiring which read: "Poet at work." A similar belief in nocturnal productivity was expressed by John Steinbeck: "It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it." I took the title of one of my books, The Committee of Sleep, from that quote because it sums up nature of the unconscious generally and dreams specifically so … [Read more...]
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