Paint a DREAM

Have you ever woken up and just knew the set of images / shapes / colors that you need to paint?

This happens to me all the time.

I am dreaming of a past friend or love and I wake with such direction

that it is not easy to contain.

I do not know if the dream is prompting it,

or if I somehow prompted the dream and it is a continuation of my thoughts.

It is a real drive in my day.

If I could not paint that day, it would be very painful.

So I attempt to let it just flow out of the brush and never overthink it.

By doing this, the painting just seems to flow out of the brushes with no help from me.

Is it possible that it truly is creating itself?

Could it be simply implemented by me, but not painted by me?

Sure, if my thoughts are bringing it together, I suppose it is my work.

But if I am merely an instrument of getting it on the canvas, it is almost as if I cannot take credit for

the work.

Again.  No overthinking.

But when people comment on a piece that evolved this way,

my reaction is always, that it is not really me at all.

I do not say it (well sometimes I do),

but I am always tempted too!