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Do you remember your dreams? Do you ever work them into your stories? Dreams can help your readers relate to your characters.
This week's Drama Newsletter, then, is all about dreams - the common and the not-so-common.
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Do you remember your dreams? I still remember some of the dreams I had when I was a small child. There was the one with all the ladybirds, and a recurrent one with birds as tall as skyscrapers.
Some people say that dreams have meanings, others that they’re just the brain processing recent events. I guess that both can be true at the same time, but I wonder what my brain is processing when it makes me defend my town from invaders by wielding an endless amount of plastic chairs, or when it throws me into medieval times and I have to figure out how I am not going to be taken for a witch by the people I encounter.
I dream fully and wholeheartedly. Everything feels real – so real that I’ve woken up laughing, or crying, happy or grumpy, depending on what I’ve experienced during the night. That said, there are times when I don’t like the dream and I can change what’s going on. For example, if I am attacked by a giant spider, I can change it into a pink, fluffy, friendly spider, or when I want to enter a concert but I don’t have a ticket, I can grab a piece of paper and make the staff believe it entitles me to enter the venue.
One of the things that I like about dreams is that some are common and, therefore, relatable. Many people have dreamed, at some point or another, that they can fly. I haven’t had a dream of that kind for many years now, but I had loads of those when I was young – so many that I have an actual memory of floating down the stairs of my great-aunt’s home. It’s got to be the result of some extremely vivid dreams because, well, people don’t do that.
I’ve had the ones where I’m back in high school, and it’s halfway through the school year when I suddenly realise there’s this class I was signed up to. I’ve also had the ones where I have to sit an important test that I didn’t know about/had forgotten about and, therefore, failed to study for.
I’ve had the ones where you’re trying to get somewhere, but no matter how far you walk or run you seem to be getting no closer. Either that, or no matter how many corners you turn, or corridors you go down, you cannot find where you’re meant to be going. Those types of dreams are exhausting. As are the ones where you’re trying to escape something terrible, but you can’t seem to shake it off.
Have you ever felt as though you’re dropping from a great height, and you wake up and it feels like you’ve struck the bed? Have you ever been for a strenuous run in your dreams, and your legs feel all heavy in the morning?
As a writer, you can work the common into your stories to help your readers relate to your characters. By giving it your own spin, you will create something unique; something memorable that taps into your readers’ emotions and makes them want to tag along for whatever you have in store for them. Dreams can be a handy tool for this – we all need to sleep and cannot escape from what lurks in our minds.
Of course, the uncommon can be used to great effect, too. It can be excellent fun to get creative and give your characters some dazzling, bizarre or plain creepy dreams to assist the mood you are going for.
I wish you wonderful stories, beautiful poems and happy dreams.
Until next time,
NaNoKit
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