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capri0mniI can't remember the last time I went to bed before midnight and actually slept deep enough for REM sleep, so all my dreams are, technically, morning dreams.
But this one was a proper morning dream-- meaning it floated through my brain as I was drifting toward wakefullness, and vaguely aware of growing light in my room (witness a scene in dream, wake up, realize I'm in my own bed, decide to go back to the dream, see next scene, vaguely connected to the last. Repeat):
Don't remember much of it, except that it was a Doctor Who story, with Troughton!Doctor as pilot, and Ian and Barbara as crew (can't remember if Susan was there, or not... she might have been). The console room was wood... like the secondary console room in Tom!Doctor's Whatchamacallit ep.
The story involved an old leather-bound book, with deteriorating pages. And there were ghosts ... I think (maybe?) the ghosts were using the book, or maybe the story told in the book, as a portal into this world.
The crew (Which I may or may not have been a member of... one of those dreams where I'm in limbo between witnessing and participating) had to decipher the story to figure out who the ghosts were, why they were coming here, and how to send them back. But key parts of the story were on pages that were missing, or bits of pages that had been torn or burned away.
Mostly, I think it was a color theme thing, as the brown leather and burnt paper of the book were the same color tones as the wood in the console room...
If I tried to write it straight from my brain into a story, it would be completely unreadable. But maybe that crew combination, and/or ghost-story-with-book could evolve into a plot bunny for someone?
Just a thought.
But this one was a proper morning dream-- meaning it floated through my brain as I was drifting toward wakefullness, and vaguely aware of growing light in my room (witness a scene in dream, wake up, realize I'm in my own bed, decide to go back to the dream, see next scene, vaguely connected to the last. Repeat):
Don't remember much of it, except that it was a Doctor Who story, with Troughton!Doctor as pilot, and Ian and Barbara as crew (can't remember if Susan was there, or not... she might have been). The console room was wood... like the secondary console room in Tom!Doctor's Whatchamacallit ep.
The story involved an old leather-bound book, with deteriorating pages. And there were ghosts ... I think (maybe?) the ghosts were using the book, or maybe the story told in the book, as a portal into this world.
The crew (Which I may or may not have been a member of... one of those dreams where I'm in limbo between witnessing and participating) had to decipher the story to figure out who the ghosts were, why they were coming here, and how to send them back. But key parts of the story were on pages that were missing, or bits of pages that had been torn or burned away.
Mostly, I think it was a color theme thing, as the brown leather and burnt paper of the book were the same color tones as the wood in the console room...
If I tried to write it straight from my brain into a story, it would be completely unreadable. But maybe that crew combination, and/or ghost-story-with-book could evolve into a plot bunny for someone?
Just a thought.
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Date: 2009-03-09 06:22 pm (UTC)Actually the wooden, Victorian-style console room lasted a season or so, from Masque of Mandragora(?) through at least Androids of Death. I think we first see the old one back in Invisible Enemy.
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Date: 2009-03-09 06:35 pm (UTC)Thanks!