Ever Have One Those Dreams?

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Christine62

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Last night I had one of those dreams...maybe God was merciful or maybe He decided I had gone way too long without writing. Or maybe it was the goat stew and pinto beans followed by chocolate cake l ate last night. Anyway I had one of those dreams the kind that you feel to your very core and you just lay in bed after you wake up and try to hold on to that feeling as it disolves before you.

In the dream I was in some kind of writing class taught by famous writers (like you know whom) but I was very frustrated because it seemed like the students didn't want to write as much as play on their IPhones.

Then here came The Old Writer--he didn't look like SK but he gave me that feeling that is who he was. The Old Writer came to me and said why am I so worried that the other students weren't writing when I had more talent and creativity than all of them combined and I wasn't writing either.
And then he walked away and I was left with this amazement and realization that, "wow He really thinks I could be a good writer!"

Then this other writer came to me and said the same thing and a third offered me a job writing for a very famous liteary journal for a year. I was just blown away because these writers were trying to pass this torch to me before The Old Writer died--which he did at the end of the dream.

It wasn't the kind of the dream that the details were that crystal clear but the feelings it evoked were palpable after I woke up and even now when I write about it. I want to remember this dream I want to re-feel it every day as a reminder to always be writing....always be writing. It was one of the best dreams I ever had in my life.

Anyone else have a dream so deeply moving like this?
 

Kurben

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It's not fair. I never have good dreams like that. The only one i can remember are the ugly ones. I had one recently that i was being attacked be someone that sneaked into my bedroom put i put up a fioght but he won and i woke up and was still in the dream for many minutes believing it really had happened but i found out i had fought in my sleep. You should ha ve seen the mess on my bedtable that struck a solid blow during my fight. I guess i have good ones too but never remember them.
 

kingzeppelin

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I used to have very vivid dreams when I was in my 20's. Unfortunately the details of them have been "lost" to me in the mists of time, as it was over forty years ago.
I do recall however that they all involved my being in peril, and being pursued by something evil although I never saw what.
What made them so memorable was the fact that I knew that I was asleep and to be "safe", just needed to wake up but couldn't!
Until that is I'd dream that I'd re-enter my house, climb the stairs and get back into bed.
Low and behold, I'd wake and was safe!
Weird, but in my youth I was heavily into Dennis Wheatley, who wrote a lot of books involving the "Astral Plane" and "out of body experiences", which might have had something to do with it.
These writers have got a lot to answer for!:wink2:
 

blunthead

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Last night I had one of those dreams...maybe God was merciful or maybe He decided I had gone way too long without writing. Or maybe it was the goat stew and pinto beans followed by chocolate cake l ate last night. Anyway I had one of those dreams the kind that you feel to your very core and you just lay in bed after you wake up and try to hold on to that feeling as it disolves before you.

In the dream I was in some kind of writing class taught by famous writers (like you know whom) but I was very frustrated because it seemed like the students didn't want to write as much as play on their IPhones.

Then here came The Old Writer--he didn't look like SK but he gave me that feeling that is who he was. The Old Writer came to me and said why am I so worried that the other students weren't writing when I had more talent and creativity than all of them combined and I wasn't writing either.
And then he walked away and I was left with this amazement and realization that, "wow He really thinks I could be a good writer!"

Then this other writer came to me and said the same thing and a third offered me a job writing for a very famous liteary journal for a year. I was just blown away because these writers were trying to pass this torch to me before The Old Writer died--which he did at the end of the dream.

It wasn't the kind of the dream that the details were that crystal clear but the feelings it evoked were palpable after I woke up and even now when I write about it. I want to remember this dream I want to re-feel it every day as a reminder to always be writing....always be writing. It was one of the best dreams I ever had in my life.

Anyone else have a dream so deeply moving like this?
The effect this dream had on you suggests to me that you have a very strong desire to either get into writing on a more routine level, or to find out whether or not writing's really for you. The fact that the first author is gone at the end of the dream seems like your subconscious mind (that is, you) reminding you that time's a wastin'. The need for subsequent authors suggests your recognition of your procrastination, your need to be reminded. The reason for the dream is to make you feel more confident that writing is something you can and should afford to focus on, as it's apparently true that writing would be very fulfilling to you. That feeling you had after the dream, which you never want to forget, is the feeling that writing will give you.
 

Christine62

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The effect this dream had on you suggests to me that you have a very strong desire to either get into writing on a more routine level, or to find out whether or not writing's really for you. The fact that the first author is gone at the end of the dream seems like your subconscious mind (that is, you) reminding you that time's a wastin'. The need for subsequent authors suggests your recognition of your procrastination, your need to be reminded. The reason for the dream is to make you feel more confident that writing is something you can and should afford to focus on, as it's apparently true that writing would be very fulfilling to you. That feeling you had after the dream, which you never want to forget, is the feeling that writing will give you.

Wow that was awesome...eh...how much do I owe you?
 

GNTLGNT

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...well, time to ride off into the sunset...got Flake to hide her eyes again....
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