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wanda7
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Re: Dreams
When I have strange dreams, or interesting dreams, or even just dreams I remember, I tell them to Martha in the morning. Then I write some of them down.
Even if I never use them, they're there as nascent ideas.
It's lovely to have a house full of ideas. I like it.
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Fenshae
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Re: Dreams
As a rule, my dreams are just too *weird* to do anything with--they operate by their own strange set of logic, and are always strangely cinematic in scope, very epic and plot-heavy. I conjure up the aesthetic of some dreams before to help with getting the mood right in a scene, but I've never had much luck using plot elements. Granted, half the time these days I dream about *work* which certainly doesn't help any. *twitch*
(for example--there was the dream I had where I was hiding in a theater because there were dinosaurs who were going to eat me. Then I had to leave the theater so I could do laundry, and I ran into Dumbledore, who forced me into becoming a PR agent for the Ministry of Magic. This is the sort of caliber of dreams I have, haha).
I do love thinking about a writing project before I go to bed, though, on the off chance that I'll dream about it. The easiest scene to write in my current novel happened because I'd been dreaming about the book, rolled over when I woke up and just snagged the laptop and pounded out about five pages before I'd even fully opened my eyes. That's always a good feeling.
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Re: Dreams
It's not necessarily because of a dream, but I love it when I go to sleep trying to figure out the answer to a writing problem (usually, how am I going to get the characters of out THIS?) and when I wake up the answer is there. It doesn't work all the time, but it sure is nice when it does.
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Re: Dreams
Just as a note, because I thought it was funny...yesterday, I actually DID get an almost fully-fledged story idea from a dream.
I was taking my standard post-work nap, and ended up having a rather strange dream that was part the usual class anxiety dream, and part....space travel? Something about a McDonalds on the moon, and how a neighboring moon was full of children but no grown-ups, and this woman who looked strangely like Sigourney Weaver wanted to adopt one.
And I woke up, blinked blearily for a moment, and then dove for my pen and the nearest piece of paper I could get my hands on, and scribbled the following note in nearly-unreadable handwriting:
"Two communities, one lost kids (plague? crusade?), one can't survive to adult (violent?) and leaves behind orphans. Should 1st adopt 2nd? Ethical implications: die now vs die later, serving own needs. Let race die out?
--Dream, mars, moon, child."
Then I rolled back over and went to sleep, more or less forgetting about it until I properly woke up awhile later. That was a delightful surprise to discover when I got out of bed 
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I've had some long involved dreams lately that seem like they could be stories...but they always seem to evaporate just as I'm coming awake enough to think I should write them down. My timing's very bad!
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Tandra08
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I've had a few ideas come from dreams. Not really any full-blown plot situations, but I tend to come up with my best ideas at the point between sleeping and being awake. Or, five minutes after I tell myself, "Okay, Tandra, it's 3am and the alarm will go off at 8 and you CANNOT hit the snooze button this time."
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