Fever Dreams and Labours of Love

Have you ever woken from a dream so vivid that you believed it was true long after you woke up?

Sometimes I think that creative work is like a self-induced fever dream: images and emotions so real in our mind's eye that we can almost touch them... but those visions quickly fade and disappear forever into the shadowlands if we don't do something to make them real. Creative work is about finding ways to keep fuelling the fire and building a solid bridge between the world of imagination and the tangible reality of everyday life.

The process of creativity could also be imagined in relation to one of the most basic human instincts for survival: procreation and the arrival of a new generation of ideas. Initial conception combines micro-elements of inspiration and of practical realities, the resulting embryo is nurtured and guarded well during development over an appropriate length of time... and only delivered after the hard work and challenges inherent in any labour of love have been successfully completed.

What are you doing to bring your dreams into the open and make them real today?