Mythologist Joseph Campbell once said in an interview, "A dream is a personal experience of that deep, dark ground that is the support of our conscious lives, and a myth is the society's dream. The myth is the public dream, and the dream is the private myth."

The following projects--representative of the various media used to convey our modern, public myths--explore the links between dreaming and art. Such varied artists from Shakespeare to Hitchcock have successfully depicted dreams in their work in order to convey the complexity of the human psyche through the mediums of film, anime, drama and literature. Through this variety of media, they focus on the instability of dreams, experimenting with methods for reflecting the lack of control we often experience in real life. Whether or not they would agree with Joseph Campbell about the relationship between dreams and myth, the widespread influence of their work suggests that dreams are a continued source of fascination for audiences.