© 2020 RIAKI ENYAMA
In dreams we meet many people and see many things, but they are all part of us. They metaphorically describe our actual reactions of our inner-selves to our day-to-day activities in the reality. In my dreams, for instance, New York City was depicted as Pompeii in ruins, a TV as a pilotless bomber, smartphones as sex toys for orphans, and I (female) saw myself as a male actor with huge testicles who is playing woman's role in a dress. Without learning how to 'see' the reality from the eyes of the dream, we will never know what reality we are living in. ------ Riaki
A dream of me and my mom.
Digital collage. 2015
A Trauma can travel through generation to generation and it controls one's life forever subconsciously. The one can get a chance to get out from the cycle only when the one becoming conscious of the one's trauma. This dream is about my case of the cycle of trauma which I inherited from my mother. The dream made me recall a memory that I have been forgetting for a long time, and it gave me the answer why I have difficulty in eating since I was thirteen. At first, I couldn't resist holding a grudge against my mother. However, an other dream told me that I am actually the fifth generation of the cycle. I am the one who finally broke the chain myself.