— Paul McCartney credits the creation of two Beatles’ megahits – Yesterday and Let It Be – to dreams.
– August Kekule, nineteenth century German chemist, made two major scientific discoveries – the origin of the Structural Theory and the unusual circular configuration of the Benzene molecule – because of his dreams. ”
— Frankenstein, the classic novel by English author Mary Shelley – was inspired by
a dream (more like a nightmare.)
” I’ve been dreaming up a storm. Last night Katharine Hepburn visited.” — Bonnie F., Journalist, San Francisco Bay Area
— A personal example, I was planning a talking heads television program of health experts when a voice in a dream said, “You’re doing this all wrong” and dictated a revised script in symbolic form.
I am privileged to share my decades of calling on dreams in all aspects of my life and of reporting about and teaching other women whose dreams have directed their path to empower your journey. As an undergraduate education major, I learned long ago teaching is bringing forth what is within the student. As a journalism school
graduate, I discovered truth is what connects with the reader and the foundation of making a difference in your work and life.
I know first-hand the power of dreams to impact our writing and work and life. While writing a screenplay, I grew increasingly puzzled over a pivotal scene. Then a dream provided the answer. A writer with chronic writer’sblock, I dreamed of an etching hanging on my apartment wall. In the black andwhite drawing, five women were entwined by their work and play.
The next morning, I wrote the crucial scene. At the altar, the heroine Jennifer, who was giving up her flourishing career as a television news reporter to marry Mr. Wrong, stuns the guests when she announces she is calling off her marriage. She promises to return to news reporting with a renewed social conscience and to find strength in herself.
Fortunately for Jennifer, her creator had a nocturnal message saving the heroine of the movie Real Dreams from a terrible mistake. For the writer, at the time disillusioned with her own career and journalism,, the dream launched a new direction in reporting and writing.
POWER OF DREAMS TO REVEAL POLITICAL TRUTHS
“A journalist must travel through a story byexamining all the connections and interconnections between events and characters in order to arrive at ‘Truth.’ Joyce Lynn, well aware of journalism’s traditions and heritage, takes this approach one level deeper. She states that for a journalist, a writer, or indeed, any individual to know truth, one must examine all the events and characters in the ‘seen’ world against the backdrop of one’s ‘unseen,’ i.e. dream
world. And, only when all these connections are made can one realize ‘Truth.'” — Carol S., Journalist, Northern California
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