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All that I see or seem is but a dream within a dream
Edgar Alan Poe
Never state an horror when it can be suggested.
H.P. Lovecraft
Incite the muse creative to plumb the depth and breadth of that which thrills with chills even in the heat of day ~ Come explore with us that which incites fear ~ the unknown and untested and until now perhaps unrevealed ^_^ |
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In Your Dreams - how often have you said that, or heard it said, with sarcasm. Perhaps when you know (or think you know) someone's lying about an accomplishment or adventure. But look at it another way - what if it's true. What if the phrase, like many others, is derived from reality, before society 'teaches' us how to correctly think. Where but in our dreams can we engage the terrors that lie within or without our mortal realm?.
Think about it, it's only humankind that kills or tortures for pleasure, is it not? In our dreams we can be empowered and best the beast within - and without. We also supposedly use only 10 or so percent of our brains in daily existence, so the other 90+% is where we create and travel and perhaps encounter horrors outside daily discourse.
What if we are not the only sentient beings on this planet either as residents or visitors. In our dreams we can explore what we dare not give breath to in the daily mundane and, if we’re lucky, best the beasts.
By dreams, I'm thinking daydreams. Perhaps you’ve relished the ozone aroma as cellphones tattoo themselves into the cheeks of a busload of babbling banshees caught beneath the sizzling live wires of a broken utility pole. Perhaps the train station’s dead end is a real ‘dead’ end, the exit leading to another plane (not airplane), and you have to get off before the train stops, somehow.
Or maybe … fill in your own dark, terrifying vision. And you have a horror story fit to write, and share with your readers.
It's been said that Einstein and Newton each arrived at some of their most meaningful postulates while daydreaming. This wasn't zoning out, mind wandering without direction while you're supposed to be attending to technical details, instructions, and the like. Conscious daydreaming, I think, is following the random thought or image that appears while attending to a mundane task, watching a boring show, something that doesn't engage the mind.
Consider, perhaps, while doing spring cleaning, dusting and vacuuming, raking last fall's leaves. You aren't really considering the leaf being raked, the bottles being dusted, but, what if, that bottle morphs to a flagon of cheap wine being substituted for a quality one, which is then served at a special dinner to the guests’ gastronomical mortification. After he slept it off, could one of the guests have dreamed the Cask of Amontillado? If Poe left such a note, we’ll likely never know, but you see where I’m coming from. Follow the thread of the images that peek in to keep the mind awake; empower your darkest dreams (and daydreams) in a horror story or verse. Your readers will get it, and you’ll sleep well, with the incubus of the story off your chest, or not?
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Write On !
Kate
Kate - Writing & Reading
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I invite you to not just 'follow' your dreams, be they in sleep or awake, but grab the thread and wind it into a story or poem.
Until we next meet,
Dream On, and
Write On !!
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