Thursday, 9 May 2013

Dream sequences...

...in novels can be intensely boring, especially if they go on for more than half a page. Listening to people's dreams can also be a little...tiring?

But dreams are also fascinating. The mind free-wheeling, without control or direction, just doing its own thing...where does all that stuff come from?

The other night (I'm doing it now) I dreamt that I went to ride the horse, but I saw him taking off on an orienteering expedition. He had a blue denim rucksack on his back, and was carrying a map. Hmmm.

Now,  your turn (after that, I owe it to you). What was your strangest recent dream (less than half a page, please!).
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  1. broken biro9 May 2013 at 14:44

    I often have crazy dreams - recently have one like a sci fi movie - young alien on some conveyor belt duty is spotted for having special powers , seeing the aura of all these visiting creatures coming down in elevators.
    (Possibly cheese-related... always have great dreams after cheese!)

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    1. Frances Garrood12 May 2013 at 15:31

      Cheese doesn't work for me, but in your shoes I'd eat lots!

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  2. Wendy's Writing9 May 2013 at 15:22

    I often have the same dream. I am in a large city without a phone or a map or any money. I can't remember where the hotel is that I am staying in, where it is or what it was called and feel a sense of helplessness.

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    1. Frances Garrood12 May 2013 at 15:32

      Wendy, that's all your insecurity coming out!

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  3. Fran Hill9 May 2013 at 18:12

    A man was chasing me (chance would be a fine thing) and I was just about to dial 999 on my mobile phone when he came up from behind me and pressed some buttons on my phone so I couldn't see the numbers. He also said, 'Mwah ha ha' which real people don't say. I'm always dreaming about not being able to phone people. Weird.

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    1. Frances Garrood12 May 2013 at 15:32

      I think that one's called a nightmare, Fran.

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  4. Anonymous9 May 2013 at 19:18

    Darn, I just wrote a dream sequence. You'd ban me for sure if I told you what happened, so I'll just lie instead. I dreamed I saw a horse with a blue denim rucksack on his back. He was looking at a map. I figured he was lost.

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    1. Frances Garrood12 May 2013 at 15:36

      You can't pinch my dream, Valance. Breach of copyright.

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  5. Graham Edwards12 May 2013 at 07:51

    I dislike dreams intensely which is unfortunate in that I dream almost every night. I categorise them in descending order of acceptability as dreams, night ponies, night mares and night stallions (where I wake covered in perspiration and am grateful that I can move over to the dry side of my lovely large bed)..

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    1. Frances Garrood12 May 2013 at 15:35

      You how sad! I enjoy dreams....most of them, anyway.

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  6. Anonymous12 May 2013 at 23:42

    If your dream was all I'd pinched I wouldn't have had to lie.

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  7. DawnTreader14 May 2013 at 06:35

    I find it fascinating what the brain comes up with when left to it's own devices in the night. Yours sounds like straight out of Harry Potter. (At the beginning of the first book... Cat with a map. So why not a horse. Carrying luggage and seeking guidance for the future, aren't we all...

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