Now before you get too excited about the naked part, let’s consider the statistics.
In the Dictionary: The Complete Guide to Interpreting Your Dreams, there are ten common themes and symbols that appear in many people’s dreams. At the top of the list…you guessed it…nudity…and flying. Taken together, that is a lot of people who have dreams of flying naked.
Even in our dreams, we’re all properly horrified, putting our hands in all the proper places, hiding for cover, asking everyone we see to please give us their shirt, their pants. After all, they’ll still have their bra and underwear.
Writers, though, are the only group of people who can make a career out of taking the worst of a really bad situation and trying to have something good come from it. Flying naked? It may wake you in a panic, teeth chattering, hands clutching at the sheets…but at least you can write about it.
At that point, getting beyond the first sentence of their story, many writers realize that their best work is done without clothes. Letting go of their last fear, an exposed writer is free to tell the truth.
Clothing? In the worst of cases, some writers may self-destruct when someone else comes into the room with a mirror for the sole purpose of exposing their nakedness.
But for the truly courageous writer, who keeps her eyes on the canvas…
What a joyful discovery to learn that…
If you fly high enough and well enough, people will quit looking for your clothes and they’ll actually start to notice that they’re naked, too. But neither of you will feel quite as badly as you did before. Or quite so afraid. And that will make you glad you started flying naked. And writing.
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THE WRITER’S LIFE