
{"id":839,"date":"2022-06-02T06:00:43","date_gmt":"2022-06-02T06:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ourartsmagazine.com\/kathykmcclellan\/?p=839"},"modified":"2022-06-02T12:19:26","modified_gmt":"2022-06-02T12:19:26","slug":"sweet-dreams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ourartsmagazine.com\/kathykmcclellan\/2022\/06\/02\/sweet-dreams\/","title":{"rendered":"Sweet Dreams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-840\" src=\"https:\/\/ourartsmagazine.com\/kathykmcclellan\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/2022-06-01-013StrntCl3RzSmFxClrtyOneStpNRkkmOAM-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ourartsmagazine.com\/kathykmcclellan\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/2022-06-01-013StrntCl3RzSmFxClrtyOneStpNRkkmOAM-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ourartsmagazine.com\/kathykmcclellan\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/2022-06-01-013StrntCl3RzSmFxClrtyOneStpNRkkmOAM-272x182.jpg 272w, https:\/\/ourartsmagazine.com\/kathykmcclellan\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/2022-06-01-013StrntCl3RzSmFxClrtyOneStpNRkkmOAM.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>One of the Fine Art America Challenges that I am participating in uses Bedroom as its theme.\u00a0\u00a0 My first image of three this week for that challenge was titled Sweet Dreams.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>A few days before the challenge started another artist discussed dreams in our forum.\u00a0 That artist relayed a few details about a dream they had the night before. You can see why dreams have been on my mind lately.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>We have read or been told that dreams are our sub conscience revealing something to us.\u00a0 Or that it\u2019s our minds working out a solution to a problem that\u00a0 may be concerning to us. We also can read many other explanations about why we dream and what symbols there are in our dreams.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Not everyone remembers their dreams and sometimes we can remember one dream but not another.\u00a0 I tend to remember my dreams more now than I did in the past but if I don\u2019t write it down within the first few minutes of waking then it\u2019s lost in the halls of memory, possibly forever.\u00a0 My mother had a stack of notebooks beside her bed that she used to write down her dreams upon waking.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>I don\u2019t know the meaning of most of my dreams but I do know that the ones that I remember the most detail about are the\u00a0 ones that deal with something that I\u2019ve read or experienced the day or evening before the dream.\u00a0 My most vivid dreams are those that involve people or places that I have read or talked about in the hours before bedtime.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Do you remember your dreams?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Do you write them down?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Do you think about what they might mean?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Do you have sweet dreams or nightmares?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Oh my!\u00a0 Nightmares.\u00a0 Another topic for another day.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Today I wish each of you sweet dreams and remembrance of those precious thoughts that swirled around your sub conscience until they surfaced for you to enjoy them.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text-justify\">One of the Fine Art America Challenges that I am participating in uses Bedroom as its theme.\u00a0\u00a0 My first image of three [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":840,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[913,910,390,771,912,911,783,914,915],"class_list":["post-839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-details","tag-dreams","tag-mind","tag-night","tag-notebooks","tag-remember","tag-sleep","tag-solutions","tag-sub-conscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourartsmagazine.com\/kathykmcclellan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourartsmagazine.com\/kathykmcclellan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourartsmagazine.com\/kathykmcclellan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourartsmagazine.com\/kathykmcclellan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourartsmagazine.com\/kathykmcclellan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ourartsmagazine.com\/kathykmcclellan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/839\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourartsmagazine.com\/kathykmcclellan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourartsmagazine.com\/kathykmcclellan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourartsmagazine.com\/kathykmcclellan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourartsmagazine.com\/kathykmcclellan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}