%0 Journal Article
%T Dream Writing: Writing Through Vulnerability
%A Jenny Helin
%J Qualitative Inquiry
%@ 1552-7565
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/1077800418810984
%X Wet sheet that gets cold. The smell of sweat. A disrupted, unpleasant night again where my dreaming had me; a felt vulnerability from which it was impossible to hide. Sometimes, at bedtime, I already know that it will be a tough night. At the same time, the night offers experiences that radically differ from my everyday life. I want to learn from the way in which these experiences unfold and what I am capable of doing at night; what can my dreaming body teach me that can be generative for my writing? Through a reading of H¨¦l¨¨ne Cixous¡¯s work on the writing body and inquiring into my night dreaming, I elaborate on possibilities for writing that differ from my usual daylight writing. Written in the form of seven invitations, I note that these possibilities are not about finding ways to overcome vulnerability in writing, but rather writing through vulnerability as a gift from the dreaming-writing-body
%K writing
%K dreaming
%K body
%K Cixous
%K vulnerability
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1077800418810984