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There’s no hope that I will ever write this now.
I woke this morning, about 12 hours ago, from a very entertaining dream that was like a movie. There was this serial killer who was also a gigolo or prostitute (I’m not sure of the gender, in the dream the character was probably both) who met a married couple in a hotel room after having buried a body in his back yard somewhere. The woman tried to make friends with the MC, saying she wasn’t jeleaous, but the man was a college football coach who had to go meet the university president who was pissed because the coach needed to appear like a respectable mmarried man.
Then I woke up. :angry:
EDITED TO ADD:
When I woke from that dream it was like being interrupted while watching a movie of an Elmore Leonard story, but reading the synopsis now it just sounds creepy. Apologies if I weirded anybody out…
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Wow, I just woke up from another doozie. :blink:
I was driving my cab, and I had gotten a nice long out-of-town fare (it does happen occasionally–last year I had one from the Asheville area to Charlotte). My cab in the dream was a 1957 Plymouth convertible.
Anyway, I stopped off at a grocery store to get a cold drink, and I managed to pick up another fare in the parking lot. This guy was going to yet another city a good long distance away. The trouble was, he spoke in such a garbled, mumbling fashion that I couldn’t understand his directions clearly enough to type in an address on my GPS. I was sort of glad to wake up from that one.
I don’t think I’ll be writing that one either. Are there even outlets for weird stuff like that?
I’m gonna go back to bed now and try for a little more shuteye.
Great thread idea! I just posted this over at Silver Griffin, but:
My main character in my main series right now, Cipher, is a vampire/private investigator (but will probably turn into an assassin — not sure yet). In the dream, I realized that when vampires in my world “sleep”, they really wander around in an alternate, night, universe (it reminded me vaguely of Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman). They also have their own personal versions that no one is supposed to know about. The main thing is: everything in this realm is dark and shadowy.
Cipher is being hunted by another vampire, and she thinks he might have penetrated her personal area, and she’s really nervous about it. She starts taking all sorts of precautions.
But then later, at another area, but still in the alternate universe, another vampire tells her that all vampires will be able to find her like a beacon, because she’s sparkling. Then, naturally, she’s terrified.
Go figure.
I think you need to use them as a starting off point.
What about a helmet that downloads your dreams to a computer and then they become externally activated.
I agree with Raven, great idea for a thread. I wouldn’t discount either of your dreams for story ideas Michael. They both seemed interesting to me.
Vampires who sleep go to an alternate, dark world. That sounds pretty good Raven. I can see why you weren’t going to let that one go. What you’ve shown us of it I find compelling.
I didn’t use to keep a dream journal. That was until I had this dream two and a half years ago. It was one of those ones like Michael describes. Like sitting in a movie theatre.
I didn’t know in the dream how he got there, but this guy who has something special about him( I knew it watching my dream but I didn’t know what or why), finds himself in this land of mountainous peaks and flowing rivers. It’s quite a bit more stunning then he expected. He expected something very dark.
Dark because he had entered into The Land of the Rift. They are woman who have been sentenced for an indeterminate time after their deaths to being the guides of the dead. Calling them The Rift was something I came up with afterwards( I didn’t have that notebook handy). Now the man, who I named Achimei, is a bit of a scoundrel and a trickster. He has travelled there to steal something, which he ends up doing. But he inadvertently weakens a portal between dimensions and these hideous creatures who lust for the power of the talisman that allows the land of The Rift to be, steal the talisman and cross back into their dimension.
Regretting what he has made happen, he feels powerless to help the thousands of weeping Rift who have gathered together as their world crumbles away around them. Then the mother of the Rift tells him who he really is, something all the gathered woman have known since he arrived. That he is The Walker between The Worlds, and he can bring the talisman back.
Skeptical, Achimei feels compelled to try. As the Rift begin chanting a phrase that means Walker between The Worlds in a strange language( I couldn’t write things down fast enough and then it was gone), he begins walking towards the portal which had then become a huge fiery wall of flame. As he begins to believe, his walk becomes a jog, and then a sprint toward the fiery wall. As he nears the bottomless chasm that separates him from the wall he leaps.
That’s when I woke up. I scrambled out of bed, got a pen and notebook and began putting down what I remembered. I have since worked it into the plot and mythology of my “Divine Arena” epic.
I call it “Achimei’s Run”.
I love this topic! I’ve had several dreams that I turned into novels
My husband has just learned not to talk to me if I suddenly get out of bed, grab a piece of paper and a pencil and start scribbling furiously. :silly:
Isn’t it fascinating how our brains work!The ones I remember having dreamed (or at least dreamed a scene that sparked the book):
Paranormal Romance starring a Kelpie
Urban Fantasy about a half-demon (succubus)
Steampunk romantic fantasy starring fallen angels
A book that takes place in a fantasy world that is a shared dream between a young woman and a man who is in a coma
YA fantasy/romance about a Japanese boy with emerging shinto powers who can see cursed objects inhabited by Kami
Sci-fi/paranormal/romance something or rather with vampiric body doubles who are failed clones.:side: I’m a frequent and vivid dreamer.
And now…I sound crazy :dry:I get a lot of story ideas from my dreams, but not all of them. My WIP, now… I can’t remember if it started out as a dream or not- I had the original idea 2 years before I wrote a word of it. My 2YN is something that came from a writing prompt. But I’ve had two dreams in recent months that definitely have story potential:
1. The Amish are from the future, traveling backward in time to find their ideal level of societal technology. Yeah, it made more sense in the dream.
2. A gender reversed version of Sleeping Beauty (i.e. the Prince is asleep, and the girl is the one who wakes him up, though not with a kiss) that takes place in some kind of Scandinavian/Russian cultural setting. I think I might actually do this one for nano this year.Two nanos ago, a dream I had completely changed the focus of my nano novel. But I honestly don’t have dreams like that a whole lot. Maybe once or twice in half a year. And few of them stick around in my consciousness long enough to be written down.
I got started writing (after 45 yrs of saying I’m a Maths person, words don’t come easy to me) becuase of a dream that wouldn’t go away. Not only did I keep dreaming the first scene I kept adding to it. kind of like a movie for the start of a series and then the series episodes. I didn’t write any of it down – hey I just don’t (didn’t) do that sort fo thing – but after a complained to a friend about not getting sleep because of my weird repetative dream and she saying ‘you shoudl write that’ I started.
That was mid 2005, I haven’t stopped writing since. I wrote 200K words on that story – oh, so badly that I need to rewrite it totally. I’ve extended my genres and been published. So much for only having a maths head and not capable of writing fiction.
Nomolosk wrote:1. The Amish are from the future, traveling backward in time to find their ideal level of societal technology. Yeah, it made more sense in the dream.Wow, that one has definitely got some possibilities
Soren_Ringh wrote:I had this dream two and a half years ago. It was one of those ones like Michael describes. Like sitting in a movie theatre.I didn’t know in the dream how he got there, but this guy who has something special about him( I knew it watching my dream but I didn’t know what or why), finds himself in this land of mountainous peaks and flowing rivers. It’s quite a bit more stunning then he expected. He expected something very dark.
Dark because he had entered into The Land of the Rift. They are woman who have been sentenced for an indeterminate time after their deaths to being the guides of the dead. Calling them The Rift was something I came up with afterwards( I didn’t have that notebook handy). Now the man, who I named Achimei, is a bit of a scoundrel and a trickster. He has travelled there to steal something, which he ends up doing. But he inadvertently weakens a portal between dimensions and these hideous creatures who lust for the power of the talisman that allows the land of The Rift to be, steal the talisman and cross back into their dimension.
Regretting what he has made happen, he feels powerless to help the thousands of weeping Rift who have gathered together as their world crumbles away around them. Then the mother of the Rift tells him who he really is, something all the gathered woman have known since he arrived. That he is The Walker between The Worlds, and he can bring the talisman back.
Skeptical, Achimei feels compelled to try. As the Rift begin chanting a phrase that means Walker between The Worlds in a strange language( I couldn’t write things down fast enough and then it was gone), he begins walking towards the portal which had then become a huge fiery wall of flame. As he begins to believe, his walk becomes a jog, and then a sprint toward the fiery wall. As he nears the bottomless chasm that separates him from the wall he leaps.
That’s when I woke up. I scrambled out of bed, got a pen and notebook and began putting down what I remembered. I have since worked it into the plot and mythology of my “Divine Arena” epic.
I call it “Achimei’s Run”.
Sounds like something I would like to read
Well, while we’re on the subject, I had a nightmare about 10 or 12 years ago that I almost turned into a novel, however I was too lazy to do the work and turned over in my bed and went back to sleep.
I posted about this on the old FM in 2002 or 2003.
There was this government time travel project with a secret base in the Everglades.
The very first time they opened an experimental time portal, a hostile advanced species from Earth’s far future swarmed through it and began to wage war on present-day humanity; if they could wipe humans out they could inherit the Earth much sooner in their “history” then they were entitled to do..
An archtypical “time war” story that I never got around to writing…
However I reserve the right to dash this story off whenever the notion takes me.
I’ve had lots of story ideas come in the form of dreams. In one, there were these people who shapeshifted into dolphins, which I thought was awesome. Another dream gave me an idea for a sequel to the WIP I was working on at the time. Sometimes I just take the kernel of the idea and expand on it.
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