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In dreams you meet many people and see many things, but they are all part you. Dreams are in fact stories of your real life that are metaphorically told from the viewpoint of your inner-self. 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) as a male actor with huge testicles who is playing woman's role in a dress. Without seeing our 'reality' through the eyes of dreams, we will never know what the 'reality' really means.
A dream of NYC as Pompeii in ruins. Acrylic paint, collage on canvas. 30 x 36 inch. 2015
A few years after I moved to NYC from Tokyo, I dreamt NYC as Pompeii in ruins. I was a ghost of a prostitute girl who is living in there as she believes the city is still active and shine. When I woke up, I was amazed by the intense metaphor of the cities --- Pompeii was known as 'City of Pleasure' where the prostitution, art and music were their national project just like NYC back in the day. But wait, why am I a ghost of a prostitute girl in Pompeii in ruins?