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How many people base stories on dreams they've had? I had an odd one last night, got up this morning and wrote it up. I've done very little to make it make more sense but it's posted over on http://Fictioneer.org.
This kind of thing happen to anyone else?
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Erin
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Frequently
I get in the habit of thinking about future scenes and how I am going to play them out whenever I have a point of inactive brain time. So mostly while I lay down to go to sleep. Most of the time I dream really stupid things that wouldn't work, but in the morning, during that time of mock lucidity in between dream and wake time is when I get my best ideas.
I realize that the dream idea sucks and nudge my brain in the proper direction. Call it lucid dreaming if you want, but I really don't control the dream.
So, when I fully wake I keep thinking about it and tweaking it along the way until it's a decent scene.
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~Lili
Write the story that you most desperately want to read.
That was one weird dream...
I don't think I'd like to do an interpretation, but it could be argued there was loads of sexual imagery within it :)
Angharad
Angharad
Dream Fountain
I have zillions of strange dreams and they frequently give me story ideas. My Derma-goo story was based on a dream fragment I had. I dreamed I was a supermodel and rapped a potential groper in the head with my shoe without missing a step. It was a thing of beauty so I just had to write a story around it.
- Terry
Glass
Quite a few of the sequences from Glass come from my own dreams, as well as many non-TG short stories and scripts I've written over the years. What makes dreams such an interesting source of ideas for creative outlets is that the images and progression of events in a dream are rarely mundane in nature. They break rules and conventions while still telling a very definite story, usually incredibly charged with emotion and metaphor... and if the emotion and metaphor associated with it in our minds when we wake up is not how the dream will be 'rationally' interpretted, all the better. The contrast and conflict between the two make it that much more interesting to tell and read.
I work while I sleep
I think for a living and I get about 30% of my ideas while lying awake with my eyes closed in the morning, gathering up the solutions that I've figured out during the night. Then I write them down, have breakfast, and proceed to refine them during the day. Opening my eyes before gathering these ideas and solutions means I'll have to wait a day or two to get them again. I don't think good ideas are ever lost, but it helps to have this established routine of waking slowly to maximize the gathering.
People that jump out of bed in the morning the moment they wake up have no idea what they are missing.
Oh and I'm so happy I don't work regular hours since an alarm clock makes this impossible.
- Moni
Robert Louis Stevenson
Included some of his own dreams in parts of "The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde"
So you're in good company, Erin.
Mr. Ram