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The Canvas represents your creativity in dreams. A bit of an abstract idea, but it's clear that you become your real creative self when dreaming; everything you see is something you've imagined. You're not limited by the logic and seriousness of your conscious mind, which is why dreams can become so surreal and abstract.

The sample is from a lecture by Amy Tan on creativity, found on TED talks.

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How do I create something out of nothing?
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We look at whether we are innately equipped with something perhaps in our brains, some abnormal chromosome that causes this muse like effect
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and that includes nature, and nurture, and what I refer to as 'nightmares'
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some people would also say creativity may be a function of some other neurological querk and that you have a little bit of, you know, psychosis
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and some people would say that we're born with in some other means
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and it's also one that I think many of our scientists have been asking; it's a kind of cosmology. I have to develop a cosmology of my own universe, as the creator of that universe
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so, when I look at creativity I also think that it is this sense or this inability to repress my looking at associations in practically anything in life
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and there's a lot of unknown and you often don't know what it is, except by its absence
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and what you're finding is what matters, the meaning, and that's what I look for in my work: a personal meaning
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sometimes I get help from the universe it seems
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you don't know what is operating but something is operating there
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and that's what happens, I get these hints, these clues, and I realise they've been obvious and yet they have not been
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but I go back to this question 'how do I create something out of nothing?' and 'how do I create my own life?'
and I think it is by question and saying to myself that there are no absolute truths
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I also can find that by imagining fully and becoming what is imagined and yet is in that real world, the fictional world. And that is how I find particles of truth; not the absolute truth or the whole truth. And they have to be in all possibilities, including those I never considered before.
So there are never complete answers. Or, rather, if there is an answer it is to remind myself that there is uncertainty in everything and that is good, because then I will discover something new.

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from Shades Of Alternate Planes, released August 3, 2012
Amy Tan, TED talks

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