Dreams about your stories

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Dreams about your stories Mar 27, 2022 12:51:27 GMT -6

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Post by ScintillaMyntan on Mar 27, 2022 12:51:27 GMT -6

Ever had dreams about your own fiction? When you get them, do they take place in-universe or are you writing the story? Are you yourself or one of the characters?

I had a very meaningful one this week. There's a character in my unwritten novel whom the protagonist seeks out for answers. Just as I've been craving an answer to a question in my life, I dreamed I wanted a key from this character — but I wasn't going to ask yet because it wouldn't be a good plot if he just gave it to me unconditionally! Likewise, multiple people in my life have advised me to let go of this question for now and not prematurely force a solution. I like that my brain used my own symbolism.

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Dreams about your stories Mar 28, 2022 12:52:03 GMT -6

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Post by RAVENEYE on Mar 28, 2022 12:52:03 GMT -6

Yes! I used to have dreams about my epic fantasy characters all the time. Curiously enough, the dreams usually involved the side characters, but they were always IN character, doing what they normally would do, personalities intact. But the dreams took place in weird settings, not the ones I imagined for the scenes at all. For example, one dream had these characters interacting in the far frozen north with glaciers and ice caps. There's no such thing in the novels' scenes. So random and bizarre.

Honestly, it bothers me that I haven't dreamed about the characters in the novel I'm currently writing. I makes me worry that there's still a barrier between me and them, that they haven't yet made it down into my DNA or something, that I'm not puzzling over them enough in my subconscious. Maybe that's why the writing is going so slowly?

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Dreams about your stories Mar 29, 2022 23:30:19 GMT -6

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Post by HDSimplicityy on Mar 29, 2022 23:30:19 GMT -6

Kinda. Ill daydream waaayyy too much about my book. Scenes over and over and over again. At night when Im attempting to sleep away insomnia that I might have? No. My imagination is triggered when its in an awakened state.
Im no other character but who I have been writing.

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Post by ScintillaMyntan on Mar 27, 2022 12:51:27 GMT -6

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