writing from your dreams

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writing from your dreams

I am writing a lot of film script at the moment and recently have came up with what 'i think' is a sound idea for a feature so started get bits and pieces together but i was really stuck for an opening scene, which in film is quite important, So i am lying in bed thinking, thinking but nothing coming so fell asleep.

I had a dream that night which fitted in with the film script and it gave me the opening: it is monumental: it has also changed the whole course of the script . It was like a moment of eureka, quite a nightmre sort of dream which made me wake instantly, but i just grabbed a pen and started writing it down, and the story i feel has been made better. now i keep a pen and paper on my bed at all times, and when i stir form a dream i write it down it kind of inspires in to all sorts of things.

You could even go as far to say that you can inspire how you dream and in doing so create plots and characters and situations for writing.

Do you know scientists say that you can only drream in black and white? i don't agree with this.

bernard
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it has been documented that one can also dream in color......others dream with music in the background, and some even see the notes that are being transcibed into sounds. in our dreams we perchace to see who we really are and where we are going. even the furture is being played out, in our dreams. they may appear in various symbols, sounds, colors, and with a cast of characters we never met before, but just the same, they are there if we pay attention to them. the best way to ascertain what your time line is is to keep a dream journal, and tell youyrself that you will have a dream, and then that you will remeber one. it may take some time ...but it will happen. it all depends on your beliefs and if you are open to this method of inquiry.
stephen_d
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Yeah, i go along with that.
Emma Bryant
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I decided on my degree dissertation subject in a dream, then I did a Masters Degree studying the symbolism of the dream in works by composers Sir Michael Tippett and Benjamin Britten. I studied Carl Jung for the purpose of my Masters and it became a sort of Jungian interpretation of the works. I believe deeply in the purpose of dreaming as being part of the growth and development of the psyche, anyone who has had such experiences with dreams as those in this discussion should definitely look into Jung. I often lie in bed trying to work out the meaning of my dreams - that is at the week-end and if my kids let me!
Ros Lloyd
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Most of my inspiration comes from real life, mine and that of others, but I am occasionally inspired by dreams, especially those crazy ones that come in that half awake, half asleep state when you wish to God your pen hadn't run out of ink, or your pencil hadn't broken! Lol! By the time you've found another pen/pencil, the idea's history! Grrr! [%sig%]
Emma Bryant
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When I was in my late teens I had a series of dreams involving fish, these fish being anywhere but in water. One came out of a birthday cake, others rained down from the sky....I really wish I could have afforded a Jungian interpreter then ..! I still can't afford one, but I'm trying to become one myself very slowly. The trouble is, according to Jung, the dreams you have need to be seen in relation to your waking life, so it wouldn't do me any good to go back and interpret those teenage dreams except in very broad terms. For a long time I kept a note book on my bedside table to write down dreams, but some dreams I've never forgotten, visually and emotionally. I can still remember a dream I had at about 5 years old - I had been forced to marry a giant and live in a castle. My mum had probably given me a pep talk about getting a career before marrying. Needless to say I had three children before getting anything vaguely answering to the name of 'career', but I don't live in a castle, and my husband is average height.
Emma Bryant
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You definitely don't dream in black and white. And as for your dreams begetting more dreams; your dream causes you to see yourself - as if holding up a mirror to the psyche (wow!), and is a revelatory experience begetting further discoveries, sometimes in further dreams, which might follow a pattern with some specific purpose for your own psyche.
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