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Post by Deleted on Apr 19, 2014 21:41:14 GMT -5
Do you often find inspiration in dreams?
I've been going through folders and found a handful of short stories and flash fiction based on dreams I've had and couple others have mentioned getting elements from dreams so now I'm curious...
Does anyone often find something worth developing in their sleep?
Just characters and base situations or whole books?
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Post by Deleted on Apr 19, 2014 21:53:35 GMT -5
Jesus Christ, I need to get my eyes checked. I initially read the title of this thread as "Drowning Inspiration," and I thought, what? A thread about drinking to kill inspiration to write?
Ahem! Anyway, no, I do not dream in stories, development-worthy or otherwise. I tend to dream in disjointed snippets of encounters that flog me with my insecurity du jour.
However, my best friend and sometime co-writer does dream that way. Many of her dreams could be shot as films with little alteration. The concept of her current solo WIP came to her in her sleep.
Whereas I'm generally standing at a podium before a crowd when I realize I'm naked, in my dreams. Not much development-worthy about that.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 19, 2014 22:40:21 GMT -5
Hmmm... Drowning inspiration.... That takes my mind to NDE's and sensory deprivation - both have the potential for productive results but I'd only willingly try one of them!
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Post by Becca Mills on Apr 19, 2014 23:17:46 GMT -5
Fortunately, I don't remember my dreams unless I'm woken up in the middle of them. When that happens, it's always some horrible anxiety-fest, like one of my kids getting lost. If I ever start remembering them consistently, I'm going to have to seek therapy.  |
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Post by Rinelle Grey on Apr 20, 2014 2:03:48 GMT -5
Most of my stories have started out as dreams. I don't dream the whole story or anything, just a snippet of something. Usually I take the feeling and a few circumstances from the dream, and develop them into a story after the fact.
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Post by lindymoone on Apr 20, 2014 4:07:37 GMT -5
I sometimes dream in whole movies, sometimes even two in one night.
Other times, like last night, they are just (usually amazingly embarrassing) scenes.
Lately, I've dreamed whimsical scenes about the House of Windsor. Last week, my husband and I bought Buckingham Palace, and were choosing colors for the remodelling (a lovely dove grey for the kitchen), wondering when those pesky Royals would vacate the place. But last night's dream was a whopper that I suspect had something to do with me watching the Doctor Who Proms before bed:
I had to sing in the shower, on stage, in a command performance for The Queen -- who was also on stage, for some reason. Of course, first the shower curtain fell down, and then the shower itself fell apart. I was nekked, naturally.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 20, 2014 4:21:19 GMT -5
Just the other night I had a dream about who I think was Scottish actress Annette Crosbie going into her house to find her husband having an affair with another woman. I've written the details down and might turn it into a story about a woman leaving her cheating husband and being led astray by her new neighbour.  |
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Post by lindymoone on Apr 20, 2014 7:45:25 GMT -5
Victor Meldrew a cheating husband? Say it isn't so!
(Um... who would put up with him?)
Good luck with the story.
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Post by Daniel on Apr 20, 2014 11:42:47 GMT -5
My dreams are like what LeeBee and Becca describe. I don't get inspiration from them. In fact, I rarely remember them. However, last night I dreamed about trying to get my car off the back of a flatbed trailer. For some reason, the car I drive in my dreams is always my old 65 Mustang, which I sold back in 1985 or so. Anyway, upon waking, I realized that the driver of the truck with the flatbed trailer was vrabinec, although I didn't recognize him in the dream. So my dreams don't inspire my writing, but the Pub apparently inspires my dreams! |
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Post by Becca Mills on Apr 20, 2014 12:06:00 GMT -5
My dreams are like what LeeBee and Becca describe. I don't get inspiration from them. In fact, I rarely remember them. However, last night I dreamed about trying to get my car off the back of a flatbed trailer. For some reason, the car I drive in my dreams is always my old 65 Mustang, which I sold back in 1985 or so. Anyway, upon waking, I realized that the driver of the truck with the flatbed trailer was vrabinec, although I didn't recognize him in the dream. So my dreams don't inspire my writing, but the Pub apparently inspires my dreams! What I hear you saying is that vrab was trying to steal the car of your dreams. That about right? |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 20, 2014 12:21:28 GMT -5
Victor Meldrew a cheating husband? Say it isn't so! (Um... who would put up with him?) Good luck with the story. lol, it wasn't actually Victor Meldrew, just random bloke who I assume was the husband.  (Claim to Fame time: not long after Richard Wilson - aka Victor Meldrew - appeared in an episode of Doctor Who in 2005, he passed by me when I was about to head into work. I didn't say anything to him, just grinned afterwards. Trivial info: he was wearing knee-length shorts) |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 20, 2014 13:14:21 GMT -5
My current WIP came from a dream. Frankly, I get most of my story ideas either from my dreams, which are usually complete with beginnings, middles and ends, or snippets of dialogue that just happen to pop into my head. Every now and then I get an idea from a conversation in which someone says something out of context and to me it sounds like a title.
What can I say, I have a strange unconscious.
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Post by scdaffron on Apr 20, 2014 13:55:34 GMT -5
When I'm in the middle of the creative first draft, I have dreamed scenes from my WIP. This started with my first book and when I realized what was happening, I thought it was really cool. It's particularly handy since I write in the morning. So I dream the scene, then just write it down. With the second book, I started trying to dream scenes intentionally. I'd think about the upcoming scene I was going to write the next day. My subconscious worked out some stuff, I'd dream about it and the next morning, I'd write it down.
I do have to have a plot and the characters laid out first and be in the midst of writing for this to actually work though ;-)
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Post by Deleted on Apr 20, 2014 14:45:36 GMT -5
When I'm in the middle of the creative first draft, I have dreamed scenes from my WIP. This started with my first book and when I realized what was happening, I thought it was really cook. It's particularly handy since I write in the morning. So I dream the scene, then just write it down. With the second book, I started trying to dream scenes intentionally. I'd think about the upcoming scene I was going to write the next day. My subconscious worked out some stuff, I'd dream about it and the next morning, I'd write it down. I do have to have a plot and the characters laid out first and be in the midst of writing for this to actually work though ;-) Cheater. |
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Post by scdaffron on Apr 21, 2014 8:42:57 GMT -5
Hee hee. Now all I have to do is actually get started on the third book |
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