Regina Frank, The Artist is Present
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Berlin, March 9, 1996

These days I was dreaming a lot. It is as if I am creating the best ideas and thoughts while being asleep or in-between being awake and asleep. I snoozed more than 24 hours in the last two days and feel pretty tired although filled with new ideas. I didn't really sleep, it is a strange feeling between snoozing and watching your inner television, your subconscious films and stories, numbers and words and images browse through my head as if I was watching an invisible screen. I am lying but and I feel pretty conscious, can interrupt the dreams, edit them, re-dream them and lead them into another direction until I have enough of it. I lie usually very flat and my back feels wide and open breathing very silent and effective so I can't hear it. Like this I lie for hours and feel almost at a certain point as if I wouldn't really exist physically. After that I get up and write for an hour and put the dreams in shape and then lie down again for another couple of hours. Producing dreams, one leads into the next and so forth until I get very exhausted but relaxed at the same time. The problem is I get very addicted, as soon as I am awake for two hours reality sucks and I would like to get back to sleep and sleep more and more and more. But after three or four days I am so filled with energy that nothing is too much. I have complete silence and can work very calmly. I should try to do this always one week before an exhausting trip and possible jetlag. It is as if I am finding the best solutions for a project keyed in my dreams, weird ideas that I wouldn't be able to find while I am fully awake neither during meditation. And it is may be best compared with watching inner television. I never owned a TV and never watched TV more than five hours, the length of two videos at friends or one film. It makes me rather brain-dead actually. But I have no other comparison because it feels different than anything else I do. After I feel pretty aware and a certain clearness in my head as if I assorted, structured my chaotic conscious with subconscious cosm-ethics.