Sacred Disorder | Cliff Bostock’s blog – ‘Finally, I came to regard as sacred the disorder of my mind’ (Rimbaud)
Sleep, dreams and creativity
The New York Times has been publishing a blog, “All-Nighters,” which it describes as “an exploration of insomnia, sleep and the nocturnal life.” It’s of personal interest to me since I’ve suffered insomnia ever since my mother’s death four years ago. I found the March 19 entry, “Why We Need to Dream” by Jonah Lehrer, [...]
Dream of an authentic Indian ‘pig in a blanket’
Occupationally, I have two lives. In one, I’m a writer and in the other I’m a PhD in psychology who tries to help clients expand the capacity of the imagination (work that I like to distinguish from psychotherapy). In the last year or so, the only writing I’ve done has been my longtime dining column [...]