sogno arcane semantics emerging from dreams

Dadaists, surrealists: Salvador Dalì, Magritte and Paul Delvaux. The frequencies that emerge from the subconscious and the psychic activities of the REM phase of sleep had constructed a scope of exploration: oneiromancy is the art of divination that interprets dreams; oneironautics — or lucid dreaming — the ability to become aware of them. Giorgio de Chirico’s oracular dimensions crossed with shadows and solitude that evoke the labyrinth, abandonment and divination — epitomized that urban density dreamt in the twentieth century; the humanist course in the 15th-century panel paintings across Urbino, Berlin and Baltimore.

, 1499, by Francesco Colonna — a writer whose true identity remains controversial — is an allegorical fantasy novel which unfolds as an itinerary of initiation as an erotic and cathartic dream. The central theme is the search for a woman; a metaphor for an inner transformation in the light of platonic love. Dreaming — especially in troubled times such as these that we are experiencing wherein the realm of reality restricts and oppresses — offers an instant escape route. , wrote Shakespeare. Then there is the autobiographical , a nineteen-ninety film split into eight vignettes. Magical realism unified by the same, narrating self — a role played by Akira Terao, one of the Japanese director’s favorite actors.