A dream you dream

A dream you dream alone may be a dream,

but a dream two people dream together

is a reality.

 

Yoko Ono

1964

 

From 'Six Film Scripts' by Yoko Ono, Tokyo, June 1964.

Published in Grapefruit

 

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PLAYBOY:

Was your decision to become a househusband a result of the separation as well?

 

LENNON:

I could say yes and then it would be a pat thing: "Oh, they did this because of this...." But it's not true at all. There's just more to it than that. But you could say, or I could say 'cause she might say a different thing entirely and it would still be true - "Yes, right, we got back together and we decided that this was our life, that having a baby was important to us and that everything else was subsidiary to that, and therefore everything else had to be abandoned."

 

That abandonment gave us the fulfilment we were looking for and the space to breathe and think and re-establish our dreams. As she said in one of her songs a long time ago, which was a quote from one of her books which was even twenty years earlier than that, "A dream you dream together...” or "A dream you dream alone is ..." I don't know, you'll have to look it up. "A dream you dream alone is one thing, a dream you dream together is reality." So we re-established our dream together.

 

 

[We both laughed.]

 

David Scheff interviews with John & Yoko for Playboy magazine, 1980.

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