I've kept a dream journal for a long time, and have long wanted to do some drawings or paintings of the dreams I had. Problem is, I get the feeling that translating a dream into artwork never works. One of the fears I have is ruining a memory of a dream and therefore altering it while trying to recreate it as artwork, so I've never thought of a way to do it and keep the memory of the dream intact.
Dreams are either meaningless, or full of so much meaning that our brains can't comprehend them. I tend to think that the latter is more true but its even harder explaining your dreams to people than it is to make them into artwork.
And why is