Laura Atkinson & Ilkin Sungu

As the first step of our interactive experiment, conceived online in the ASD chat room, Ilkin (Turkey) submitted her dream text to Laura (Providence, Rhode island), who interpreted it in painting form.

Ilkin's Journal entry:

"I have a very big house. I didn't enter some of the rooms for a long time. I am deciding to look around. I am entering a room I haven't been in for a long time. There are large windows with a beautiful view of the sky. My husband is joking with me; "Hey Ilkin, you were thinking to watch the stars at nights from this room." I am looking at the shining stars and I become sad. I am looking around the room and see that I had built special places on the corners and along some walls to plant flowers from rocks. Especially, one of them is full of water, flowers and antique glass items, but no earth. I am taking the glass items and sending them to the kitchen to be washed. I am sending the maid to her relatives who live nearby, to get earth and fertilizer to fill the place and plant the flowers. I am surprised how the flowers could have lived without earth all that time I didn't even enter the room. She is turning back, saying there is no earth left, but will come until the night. I am trying to put the furniture etc. in order while holding a bunch of papyruses in one hand. I am seeing that where I built the rock plant holders, I made the wooden parquets, taken from the floo,r but the parquets throughout the room are broken and I can see under them. I am seeing the girl is sweeping the downstairs floor and yelling at her to find earth quickly, can't she see that the flowers are left in my hand? At the same moment, I am realizing that most of the plants around the house are pine trees. I am not understanding why I had planted all kinds of pine trees inside the house, instead of planting them in the garden. I am looking around with surprise and seeing in a corner that there are all coloured flowers waiting to be planted. I am realizing that the girl still didn't wash the glass items I gave her. I am putting the papyrus bunch in my hand aside and beginning to wash them. There is a kind of baggage as they used in shopping with tires and shelves on it. I am putting several cups on the shelves and telling the girl to go and find earth somewhere else. All the cups have holes and it makes me wonder if they can hold the earth. Just then, the real maid is turning back from her village. I am telling her; "where have you been, I was waiting for you yesterday, this relative of yours knows nothing to do". I am deciding to rearrange all the plants, to take all the pine trees out to the garden, put fresh earth and plant colourful flowers inside the house. I am also deciding to renew the parquets on the floor."

Laura's Image for Ilkin's dream:

Stars and Flowers:

Ilkin's intuitive reply from viewing the dream image:

I am lost in time, space and dimensions. As in my "Lost in Total Turquoise" dream. But in this dream, as a watcher, I am seeing all the time period of humanity from beginning in the water to climbing to the highest civilizations. I am feeling as I am in a jungle (forest?), unkown to my primiyttive mind but at the same time known by my conscious mind. I am searching and learning. Although the jungle of life seems to take me in and melt me, it also seems just like a joke to me. Life is eternal and infinite. I have so much to learn and consume. Wars, hatred, love, beliefs, enlightenment and primitive thinking all get confused in this jungle I felt myself lost in. In fact between all the horror and chaos, all the crowd and mystery; the world is full of life and I am ready to hug it, as it is ready to hug me, even if I am a little scared. I can even hear the music coming from far away and lost, dark streets. It's melody reminds me "The Green Grass of Home". I am walking on the narrow, misty and dangerous streets following the music to find where it comes from. It sometimes looks likes a maze, sometimes like an ancient city from medieval times and even sometimes like a city from the highest civilizations, as Atlantis, in legends. It is ready to hug me as a giant monster. I am realizing the giant monster is not so horrible, rather funny, he even has no teeth or nails to harm me. The colors around the lost timeline and space attracts my attention. They are my favorite enlightenment colours during meditation with light; yellow, green, blue and indigo. I feel that the black border-like separations around the colours are not fixed. They have opening points. They look like a maze I have find my way out of in this world and all universe. The endless timeline and space attracts me. I am feeling that I have to discover it all."

Laura's actual journal entry for the dream:

"I am walking in a swamp. Finding a path. A very strange landscape. Very exaggerated, almost mutant. A very large, old turtle with hands with fingers. Must not step on the claw, it will puncture my foot. He is the guardian of the swamp, upset that I was present. Swam quickly toward me - making me decide that going traveling through the swamp is not the best choice. Greenish and moldy with dusty sunlight. "

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You can see more examples of Laura's dream-inspired art at arthatglows.com