This is my own term for bringing dream material into waking life in some tangible way. Famous examples include John Lennon being told to call his band The Beatles in a dream, and Paul McCartney writing a song based on a melody that came in a dream. Kekule ascribed his discovery of the benzene ring to a dream.
Native Americans are described as sewing figures and patterns from their dreams into clothing and horse blankets; the Senoi are described as weaving songs from dreams into community songs. Speaking for myself, I have dreamt poetry (I once woke only able to remember the first and last lines; this seemed to be enough for me to fill in the between with what felt right), written dream sequences into stories, and put snippets of dreams into song. Jung encouraged his patients to express dream images and themes in a wide range of creative media; painting, sculpture, dance, written words.
This is about enriching our lives with greater depth. We are surrounded by objects that hold a range of associations for us, and it is the interplay of those associations that lends a sense of atmosphere to our experience of a situation or setting. Imagine incorporating dream images into the decoration of your house and the depth that would bring to your experience of being at home! Dreams often inspire and give hope; shaping some aspect of our life with this inspiration and hope can only enrich our lives.
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