Anyone else have dreams which would make great story ideas? I have a lot. -My boss at the cinema I worked at in my teens was a vampire and all the workers had to team up to fight her. -Seen from the POV of a runaway preteen boy who walks through a snowy lane, emerging at the other end into a sunny park filled with happy families. He joins up with three girls who wear St Trinians' uniforms complete with straw hats, live in a burned-out car, and run with a wolf pack at night. That one was in rhyme. That happens sometimes and I'm always annoyed I can't remember the rhymes when I wake up, even though they were probably complete nonsense. -A really bad nightmare I'd forgotten about until I read back through my blog. My dad was trapped in another universe by a vague shadowy villain, and was dying. Universe-hopping was performed with single-use magical eggs, and I only had one (I hadn't at this point seen the Percy Jackson movies, BTW) so either neither of us ever returned home or I never saw my dad again. I woke up at the point I was trying to bargain the egg's power to the villain in order to send messages to and from my dad so I could potentially tell him how to save himself. -I was one of a bunch of college kids on a mission to overthrow Kim Jong-un. We cornered him in his palace and he was killed when the ceiling broke in and crushed him in a pile of money. That was satisfying. -I am terrified of slugs, and as I mentioned on Tumblr I think this is the ultimate privileged-person nightmare; six-foot slugs were legally declared British citizens and I was ostracised as racist for throwing up.
Yes! I don't always often remember my dreams, but my dreams tend to contain personifications and explorations of whatever's going on in my waking life, and always have a distinct (if bizarre, because dream logic) plot. I actually started to get the idea for a metaphorical comic I've been working on from a pretty symbolic dream I had recently! (I mean... I find dream interpretation generally silly - When it's done by anyone besides the dreamer. I personally find it useful as a brain-provided self-reflection tool. It's all about what kind of person you are and how you think and dream, really).
