Ideas from Dreams
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Ideas from Dreams
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deftlyspeaking wrote:For me sleeping and dreaming does nothing to me but help me rest. Ambition to pursue and reach my poetic dreams is what keeps my spirits in a pleasant state. Poetry is my daydream per se, often times, it is when subconscious feelings surface, I must not fight, then the writer's block dies. I too been haunted by the ghosts of creativity zap, so I wear off the storm and continue to write.
hey nice to know about your view. The zeal you have to follow your poetical ambition is quite inspiring.
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Um, I LOVE dreaming, OMG! For me, it's a secondary world full of friends and guides and multiple dreamscape worlds. I think dreaming can help with anything, including writer's block, because if you let your subconscious mind go to work on something, such as "What should I write about?" then it will come up with an answer! Seriously, I don't care how crazy this makes me sound--I have friends in my dreams who I don't know in real life. It's pretty much my second reality, my second home.anakandwal+ wrote:Hi !! I was wondering how many of you love sleeping and dreaming like me. I love dreaming because it gives me some amazing crazy ideas for new stories. Whenever I face writer's block, a period where I can't jot down even a single word; I sleep and dream. Well, there are times when I wake up and couldn't recall the dream. But Most of the times this trick works and it rejuvenate me. So how many of you share the same passion for dreaming?
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I agree that could be a problem. I am lucky in that I dream about my stories at times...so I have more than one clip to work with. The dreams sometimes help me see what comes next. I'm sure I wouldn't be able to take simply one dream and stretch it into a story, that would take someone far more talented than IZ0_happy wrote:I get book ideas from dreams a lot. But then I have to problem of making it into a whole story. Which then causes more writers block.
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I have used dreams as the nugget of an idea or line for a poem, but I haven't yet based a whole story on a dream, although I have had plenty of strange ideas from dreams, especially for sci-fi and fantasy worlds. I agree with zanderlyrose that any aspiring writer or vivid dreamer should keep a dream diary. Sometimes a story could emerge when you go back and read it. Dreams are also a great way to solve problems in your life.
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I am one of those people who dreams highly complex and plotted dreams, in full color and with Dolby surround sound. And I'm not exaggerating -- I dreamed that I was at a baseball game at the Houston Astros ballpark, and I was taking the escalator up to my seating area. I populated my dream with hundreds of fans, all races, sizes, ages, just like a real crowd. I could hear the public address system announcing the lineups, and could smell the popcorn and burgers and so on. Every detail was precise. That's how most of my dreams are.
I even cast real actors in my dreams. A common actor is Bruce Willis. Sometimes he's my friend and is the actual person and sometimes he's my friend as a character in a story that I'm dreaming. I write mysteries so I dream a lot of action dreams, and Bruce is a good guy to have on your side, ha ha.
I also dream a lot of Star Trek episodes, where I'm in the TNG w. Captain Picard and all. I'm usually a science officer (my formal education was in chemistry and math and biology) and so I'm a techie first class. These dreams are pretty exciting.
So somehow my subconscious creates a very entertaining story for me to dream, highly complex with all the bells and whistles that a real movie might have. Needless to say when my dreams are scary, they're really horrific.
I however don't get story ideas from my dreams, other than maybe to have my character suffer a nightmare and then I use my own bad dream memories for that.
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characters I get to meet. Then I incorporate that stuff into my
story lines and simply let my characters set the pace for
the way the story goes.
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I did write a horror story called "The Stump" from a dream I had. The dream was vivid and dealt with the topic of the story title, "stump" being not a tree stump but the truncated leg of a person. Believe me, the dream was scary and so was the short story. It was published years back in a horror anthology.
Other than this, I can't remember anything that I've used from my dreams.
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