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I like to shapeshift my dream reports into stories, essays and poems, working at high speed, fast enough to leave my inner editor and analyst in the dust. I have started sharing these productions on my Substack platform. Please subscribe – it’s free for now!

It’s a recurring theme in my bookish dreams: I come upon a text that I am sure I have written myself or at least have in my library – and then wake to find it exists (for now) only in the other reality of the dream.

In a recent dream I was excited to find a single page I had written long ago on an old-time typewriter. It described – to my mind, with admirable clarity and brevity- Yeats’s lifelong efforts to communicate with unseen intelligences.

Reading this over, I had the bright idea of exploring whether some of what Yeats was doing could be called magical AI. Was a Yeats interlocutor like Leo Africanus a magical version of a personal AI assistant, shaped to the user’s personality but drawing on vast banks of transpersonal data?

I woke with an immediate action plan. I would go to my files and dig up the old document and use it to write a longer essay on these themes.

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GROWING BIG DREAMS

Here’s a fun note on the pre-history: A year ago, I had a clear vision in the space between sleep and awake of the manuscript of my new book being delivered to my door in a baby basket.

July 6, 2019: Hypnapompic zone

Baby Basket at My Door

Someone is at the door, making a delivery. I go to the door and look out into a narrow street of whitewashed houses, flooded with sunlight. At my door someone has left a baby basket. Really? I look more closely. Instead of a baby there is a bundle of typed pages, neatly stacked and tied with both pink and blue ribbons. I know this is the next book I will publish. Feelings: happy, excited

At that point I had not decided what my next book would be or made a publishing plan. After I shared my dream and the drawing with my wonderful editor Georgia Ann Hughes we agreed on a plan for the book.  GROWING BIG DREAMS, which contains a chapter on the creative gifts of hanging out in that liminal space between sleep and awake, was officially published on September 29. The audiobook version, narrated by me, is available on Audible.