Your works in your dreams

Well, this was inspired by a quick post I made in Writer's Block Daily. Have your works ever invaded in your dreams? Not half-formed plotlets or ideas... aspects of your works. Did a character show up? Or, perhaps, did you find yourself in your world?

I'll copypaste my dream from a few days ago- Vince was standing over my shoulder telling me what to write and occasionally hijacking my keyboard. And I was cool with it.

I don't know, that might not be a good omen.

Anyone else got a story to share?

Yes... Flinn once appeared in a dream of mine. He was helping out the protagonist (my dreams often star people who aren't me) through a sort of a maze or series of challenges, with the help of a set of instructions that his own future self had written.

It kept leading them wrong, and the protagonist would say "Flinn! What the hell were you thinking? Are you going to be thinking?" and Flinn would say "I don't know! What's the matter with me?"

But then it would turn out to be a necessary diversion in the end and saved their lives.

... yeah, I have wierd dreams.

I've had a couple of ideas come to me in dreams like Towards The Valley of Flowers and my Metroidvania idea Macrocosm (itself coming about because the previous night I had played a hell of a lot of Bunny Must Die).

Beyond that, I've had a few things that dreams either made have more sense. For example the idea that my main character Mathias Watkins in Endless Conflict has a younger sister named Samantha was clarified in a dream.

My characters are yet to invade my dreams.

I'm a bad dreamer. I should really start that dream diary.

A couple of nights ago, I dreamed that all my background research attained a physical avatar and ruined my entire play. Believe me, if something does possess me to stick to the strict history, it would be indistinguishable from Upton Sinclair. Fuck that noise. (I did change the name of one of the organizations as a result of the dream, though.)

Occasionally.

However they more often involve people from reality staring in works of fiction that go into a file I keep for the purpose and never write for again.

I've tried, occasionally, but it doesn't work since being a dream it's not like they have characters worthy of the name and the whole thing veers a little too wish-fulfillment.

My dreams tend to be a bit too lucid for something like that. Semi-lucid, generally, with an established set of rules I built up over the years. There's not much room for my characters in there.

Of course, if they were, and they had any idea I was the writer...well, that would turn into a nightmare pretty fast.

I don't dream that often, but when I do, it tends to be some pretty surreal shit. So I wouldn't be surprised if they showed up eventually.

I've had three dreams involving my characters, and two were fairly run-of-the-mill (for their settings, at least). The third involved me sitting in a theater, watching a horribly butchered adaptation of my story and becoming increasingly distraught.

I've had bits of my story invade my dreams from time to time but by the time I'm fully awake I don't remember all the details, just that it had something to do with the story - usually mixed with something else that's going on in my life or that I've watched recently - and (usually) that it was "weird".

By the time I've finished my morning coffee and cigarette, the best that I can recall is "I had a weird dream about my story last night, somehow the characters from Being Human were involved as well."

No, thank goodness, since my story implies that dreams are a major mechanism for an alien chessmaster to recruit spies.

edited 28th Jul '11 9:01:42 AM by Yej

Well, I basically only write Naruto fanfics at this point, and I've had several dreams with the Naruto characters. Probably because I also basically only read Naruto fanfics at this point.

That probably doesn't count, but whatever.