I wish I could video record my dreams, and upload them to YouTube.

[capri0mni]

I have a feeling people would find the one I had this morning amazingly, cracktastickally, entertaining.

But I have no words. As in zip, zilch, nada, words to describe it.

Well, except, maybe, these:

Part of it (The most amusing part, anyway) involved characters from a (generic) fairy tale running around a real world museum exhibit of African masks. And there was a rivalry. There was a real, legimate, prince, and a real, legitimate, princess that had some mission they needed to complete. And there was an imposter prince going about trying to sabatage their efforts. And the imposter prince had kidnapped the legitimate prince's grandmother, and had hidden her somewhere in the musem.

The grandmother was about the size of a large chicken, and hidiing inside a costume that made her look a bit like "Cousin Itt" from The Addams Family, except that the hair was shorter, darker, and stood straight out on all sides, so that she looked a bit like a walking pom-pom.

... and all this running around was going on amongst the normal, muggle patrons of the museum who were looking at the exhibit, completely unaware of the fairy tale espionage intrigue going on around them....

...Um. Yeah.

Sometimes, I wonder about my brain...

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[indefatigable42.livejournal.com]

That's awesome.

Do you ever find that your dreams are logical or interesting enough to write into stories? A couple of times I've thought I had dreams that would make a good basis for a story because of the emotions I was feeling when I woke up, but when I actually started to write out the plot I realised it was nothing special. ^^; I had dreamed the emotions as much as I'd dreamed the events (or lack thereof); they were not triggered by the events the way they would be in real life.

[capriuni.livejournal.com]

Yes, as a matter of fact. My first attempt at a full-length novel was inspired by a series of dreams I had. The dreams themselves never repeated, but the same cast of characters went though all the dreams. They all involved a stereotypical wizard with a long white beard and pointy hat, and robe and all, and a band of kids from around the world. They would travel from place to place to wherever there was trouble and search for whatever lost spell was needed to fix the trouble.

When I decided to make these dreams into a story, I discarded everything except the premise of a "lost spell," amd used that as the catalyst for the "what if."

The wizard became a retired college professor who studied magic and philosophy on the side. The band of children became two best friends in the fourth grade. And the lost spell became a wrong doing in the past which the heroine and her friend need to correct by journeying into the realms of magic...

IF I'd tried to translate the dreams literarly, the story would have been an incoherent mishmash.

(BTW, I got as far as sending it to an agent to get it published, but then the agent rejected it, amd my mother died less than a week later, and I lost heart in the project).

[indefatigable42.livejournal.com]

Right! Sorry, yes, I remember you telling me about that. Ever have any thoughts of writing it up again?

[capriuni.livejournal.com]

Occasionally. In bringing down the book inventory of the house, Audrey happened to grab my first finished draft, complete with letters of critique from the class of fifth graders (they said my story ended too happily, and that I should kill one of my characters off ... They were right).

Sometimes, I think I should give that story another go. And sometimes, I think I should leave it in the past, and try again with a completely different story...

I wonder what premise I could take from this morning's dream... the tiny, costume-wearing grandmother in the cupboard? ^^

Speaking of which, yesterday's (http://www.ozyandmillie.org/d/20070926.html) and today's (http://www.ozyandmillie.org/comics/om20070927.gif) Ozy and Millie strips are right to the point of this discussion... -_^