Below is a dream that I had in October 2020, while on vacation in Morro Bay, CA. It was completely unexpected, as there were no recent waking events that would create these dream images.
It was also unique in that it was a complete story. When I awoke at 6:00 am, I was so excited that I immediately recorded the dream. I was not lucid in the dream, only an observer.
Like all dreams, one should try to bring the dream or at least a part of it into the waking world. I sent this dream to actor Will Smith (one of my favorites). After all, he is The Tailor in the dream. I doubt that I’ll ever hear back from him, but it would make a great story or movie!
If any readers out there would like to develop the story, please contact me. Use the Contact selection in the header bar.
I hope that you enjoy the The Tailor:
“My friend Raj and I were way behind on our senior high school English project. We had no idea of what to do. We were beginning to get nervous – if we did not complete the project we would not graduate.
Then Raj said, “I’ve heard about a young black child that has very poor vision, maybe we could do a story about him.”
In the next dream scene, a black male adult hand with pinking shears, cutting gold lame fabric is seen. As the perspective pulls back, you see the man’s arm, his shoulder and the back of his head and then finally the entire room. The room is actually a set from a movie and the man is a very successful costume designer in Hollywood.
The next moment, I see a plantation around the mid 1840’s. I notice a small, male enslaved child (about 3 years old) who only has close up vision. The adult females decide that the young child will stay with the women and learn to sew. This particular plantation not only grew and harvested cotton, but also spun it and made cloth.
As the young child ages, he becomes very adept at spinning cotton and also begins working with needlepoint designs on the cloth. His designs and close up needlepoint work details were so incredibly amazing, that his work gathered the attention of many other local plantations and stores. This gave him some extra privileges, in that he got to go to town. Many of the white female locals wanted to meet the young child who could produce such beautiful cloth.
The local militia had also asked the plantation owner to begin making special cloth for the soldier’s uniforms. Then the Civil War broke out.
The child, now about 12 years old, began to see the carnage of the war as wounded Confederate soldiers are brought back to the plantation, which now serves as a battlefield hospital.
The child sees many men bleed to death and spins a special cotton fabric, and creates a compression bandage that can quickly stop bleeding. In addition to the compression bandage, the cotton that it was woven from had special properties. It was grown in a soil that contained higher concentrations of silicates, which trigger coagulation, speeding up the clotting process. His bandage saves hundreds of lives at the hospital, and is used on the battlefield as well.
The war ends, and the child now about 16 is free. He wanders the South until he meets up with an ex-Confederate soldier, who runs a mercantile. It so happens that this ex-soldier was saved by one of the young man’s compression bandages. He hires the young man to work in his store, specifically designing fabrics and tailoring clothes.
Again, the young man’s skills become renowned in the area. During this time, he marries and has two sons. He is asked to travel to Britain to make costumes for the stage. He is incredibly successful and years later returns to work in Vaudeville costuming, where he is very respected and quite wealthy.
One of his sons also has the gift of being a remarkable tailor. He follows in his father’s footsteps and begins working in the New York City theater. Around this time, 1920, he is asked to move to Hollywood. His costume design skills are also highly sought after.
He in turn has a son and the Hollywood costume design and tailoring legacy continues to this day.”
Are we talking a great movie or what?









