The emergence of forbidden impulses: the sex and aggression that escape sleep’s indolent censor are fuel for humor, andģ. Puns: language use drops in dreams, but the sound of words plays a larger role relative to meaning,Ģ. There are not all that many funny dreams, but at least three elements general to dream creativity can benefit cartooning:ġ. ©Robert Mankoff/The New Yorker Collection 2012 (More on other forms of dream creativity can be found in my talk at TEDxKnoxville.) I realized this was one area of nocturnal creativity I hadn’t covered at all. It contained the example below example–straight from a dream, and a fascinating description of how cartoons can originate in dreams. But a year after my book, The Committee of Sleep, came out describing art, fiction, scientific inventions arriving in dreams, Bob Mankoff, The New Yorker’s cartoon editor, published The Naked Cartoonist. I’ve spent more than a decade researching dreams and creativity. I want to tell TED readers a bit about using dreams for cartooning and then send you over there to target them! I have a blog post of my own over at the New Yorker Cartoon Desk this week challenging readers to dream up–literally–captions for this week’s contest. While The New Yorker hasn’t announced the finalists yet for contest #336 (finalists will appear online June 11), the entry posted by TED speaker Roger Ebert on his own blog gives a taste of what to expect: In early May, the image (supplied by cartoonist Harry Bliss) to be captioned was this: The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest targeted TED recently. In this post, she looks at the New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest, which recently featured a cartoon involving what might be a TED speaker’s worst nightmare … It started when, over on New Yorker cartoon editor Bob Mankoff’s blog, she threw out a challenge: Can you (literally) dream up a great caption ? We asked for more: Guest blogger Deirdre Barrett is a psychologist who researches dreams and sleep - and explores how dreams can be used to unlock waking-world problems.
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