Dream Gift?

[bobquasit]

Why am I up now?

Because I haven't been sleeping well lately. Lots of dreams, weird ones, and frequent waking.

I just dreamed - very vividly - that I was reading a book. As I "read" it, I saw the images clearly. Somes were book illustrations, others were movie-style.

When I read the end, I said "Not bad. But I could have improved it."

Then I woke up. It was 5 AM on Sunday morning, and pitch dark. Slowly I realized that I hadn't read the story; I'd only dreamed it. And I knew that if I didn't get up right now and jot the idea down, I'd probably forget it by the time I woke up again later.

So I got up, turned on the computer, and wrote the idea down. The only problem is that now I'm awake. This is too damned early, and I'm too short of sleep, so I'm going to go back to bed and do my best to fall asleep again. Good night!

Comments

[klyfix.livejournal.com]

Well, a fair number of stores have come out of dreams; some Lovecraft I think and perhaps most famous The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. I think that dreams can produce a sort of random creativity that can allow for new ideas that can be refined; drugs of course can do that also (I recall that Grace Slick would drop acid, write lyrics, and then redo them when she wasn't high) but I'd not advise that. :)