Leehee Elishmereni suggested « Dream » as this issue’s theme, and I, I am a fan of Neil Gaiman’s Sandman series, so I thought that it would be a fantastic subject and, moreover, a fun exercise for the period of exams and vacations. Little did I know that it would be more arduous a subject than expected, even more than identity.
But the fun is now, and is yours to discover, dear reader!
We all dream. And this is true for either sense of the word. We all dream in our sleep. We all have hopes, a vision, more or less rational, for what we would like our life to be, or to become.
To talk about dream, though, requires reaching into a deeper layer than our conscious identity, Freud said that they reveal our deepest, darkest pain, our most shameful hidden desires, they appear uncensured, unapologetic.
Whatever we have hidden inside of us, it unleashes itself at night and tries inefficiently to hide itself in our daydream and personal vision of our ideal life.
I suggest that whatever hidden beauty we have inside of us also appears in our dreams. You will see for yourself soon.
In this edition, there will be some surprises, some discomfort and awkwardness because our participants played the game to the fullest, some formidable and mysterious visions whereas through poetic verses or through visual art, one beautiful animation illustrating an original poem and an amazing video.
Both senses of dream are illustrated and sometimes they are entangled, one into the other, in a very freudian way in the same piece.
This is a journey through a mosaic of fantastic visions, and because you, dear reader, will have to use your imagination aplenty, each layover will be your own.
As Eugene Ionesco wrote: « Dreams and anguish brings us together. »
Dream on.
Special thanks to Moshe L., Victor T., and Itamar G.
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Sarah Benayoun is a MA student in history of the Jewish People, creator and editor of the Nospokesman.
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