How to Dream Like Salvador Dali?

“The most characteristic slumber, the one most appropriate to the exercise of the art of painting…is the slumber which I call ‘the slumber with a key,’ … you must resolve the problem of ‘sleeping without sleeping,’ which is the essence of the dialectics of the dream, since it is a repose which walks in equilibrium on the taut and invisible wire which separates sleeping from waking.” — Salvador Dali, 50 Secrets of Magic Craftsmanship

Salvador Dali was a master of surrealist art whose paintings, lifted from the swirlings of his subconscious, were a manifest homage to the intra-stellar universe of dreams. Far beyond simply using dreams as a source of inspiration, Dali, in fact, proactively harnessed the power of dreams, incorporating several systems of dream control into his artistic methods.

-Ekua Hagan

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