Yesterday I posted the transcript of a nightmare that I suffered in 2003 and recorded in my personal journal, which I’m currently turning into a manuscript for publication later this year. I characterized that nightmare as the most narratively developed dream that I’ve ever experienced. Today, in the interest of accuracy, I’ll point out that…
Tag: nightmares
A nightmare that was better than the story I made from it
The idea of publishing my 30-year private journal that I recently mentioned here is becoming a reality. The first volume will be published later this year by S. T. Joshi’s Sarnath Press. For weeks I’ve been typing like mad to produce a manuscript from mounds of old notebooks. And I’ve been coming across many things…
Nightmares: Dark Crossroads of Creativity and Vulnerability
From the perspective of cognitive psychology and clinical neuroscience, when it comes to treatment, a good nightmare is a dead nightmare. Since the days of Freud, we have been hell-bent on eliminating all varieties of bad dreams equally without discrimination and as a result, we know surprisingly little about ordinary nightmares. That’s a problem that…
Richard Gavin on the numinous power of “Nightmare Horror”
Teem member Richard Gavin has contributed a brand new and powerful entry for “The H Word,” the rotating column at Nightmare magazine, editor John Joseph Adam’s excellent online pro ‘zine devoted to horror and dark fantasy. Richard’s theme and thesis will be of pointed interest to Teeming Brain readers: [What I call] Nightmare Horror is…
Teeming Links – July 9, 2013
Image courtesy of Salvatore Vuono / FreeDigitalPhotos.net The presiding reflection for today’s offering of recommended and necessary reading and viewing comes from British novelist and essayist Tim Parks, who elicits an important truth about the silence that so many of us seek, or say we think we seek, amid a culture of clamor: Arguably, when…
Lovecraft, Tolkien, and the nightmare as “a necessary drug for the mass consciousness”
Here’s a description of the book Nightmare: From Literary Experiments to Cultural Project (Brill, 2013) by Russian-born literary and cultural scholar Dina Khapaeva, who is currently serving as chair of the School of Modern Languages at Georgia Tech: What is a nightmare as a psychological experience, a literary experiment and a cultural project? Why has…