I've observed that

[capri0mni]

I've observed that dreams, which seem, upon waking, that they would make fantastic stories, rarely, if ever, do.

After two days of trying, I've come to a similar conclusion regarding poems...

*sigh.*

I think the metaphors in dreams are just so personal to the dreamer that trying to convey their impact to someone else just makes them collapse under their own weight.

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[raze]

Agreed. At best, I can usually write a story based on extrapolating one specific scene or feeling from a dream, but writing the dream outright? Pretty much always a fail.

Incidentally, Arks Be Damned is based off of a dream I had, but very loosely.

[capri0mni]

*Nod*

The middle-grade novel I wrote as an independent study, my senior year of college, was built around a central premise in a series of periodically recurring dreams (each dream was different, but the central conflict was always the same). But that driving idea was all I kept...