Do you ever dream what you write?

[Thadlerian]

The classic question has been discussed countless times: Do you write down stuff from your dreams and put it in stories?

But here's an opposite: Do you dream stuff that you've previously written? Elements from stories that you've made up while awake?

This never happens to me. Like, really, never. I've been writing for the better part of 6 years, and I can't remember ever having a dream about stuff from my stories. I find this very curious. My stories occupy much of my thinking while awake, why doesn't it then haunt my dreams as well?

 

[MissGuidedFee]

I dream about my characters, and sometimes dream about scenes I have not created yet. I have on occasion had a dream about a scene I have just written or read, usually before I've nodded off.

 

[jenna]

No I'd love to dream about my book!

 

[manephelien]

No, I haven't, because I've never really written anything. However, there are scenes and characters from a still unwritten story that sometimes pop up in my dreams.

 

[SpaceShip]

Sometimes - and when that happens the story changes so I have to go back to my script and change it. Why is it that my dreams are sometimes better than my imagination in the first place? Could it be that I'm still working the story out in my subconscious and end up changing it while I'm sleeping?

 

[Leandra]

It's a really cool idea. I have dreamed about my character from a RP, and then about Allanon the Druid when I was writing fanfiction. Never, though, about a character in a story of my own.

 

[Rhuidean]

It's a really cool idea. I have dreamed about my character from a RP, and then about Allanon the Druid when I was writing fanfiction. Never, though, about a character in a story of my own.

Allanon from "The Sword of Shannara"?

 

[Talysia]

I've dreamt about my characters on many occasions, but it usually involves them in situations out of the story world, or out of context. I've only dreamt about the storyline on a few occasions, although I do tend to get most of my ideas whilst I'm just dozing off, and I've learned to keep a notepad and pen by my bed, just in case.

 

[Leandra]

Allanon from "The Sword of Shannara"?

The very same :] I was so mad about him that I didn't get past the Elfstones - I didn't want to read about Allanon dying.

 

[Adasunshine]

I haven't written anything for quite a while now but when I did, I never used to dream about it.

I do, though, always dream about the book I'm reading, Harry Potter especially. Books that really capture me and take me into their world, play with my subconscious when I'm asleep and I love those dreams, they're great fun!

xx

 

[Rhuidean]

The very same :] I was so mad about him that I didn't get past the Elfstones - I didn't want to read about Allanon dying.

Sad. But he later exists as a shade, though.

 

[Leandra]

Sad. But he later exists as a shade, though.

It's not the same, though. *pout*
And the dreams were amazing, even though they were kind of crazy. I remember one in which Allanon and I went back to our old house to rescue a pet elephant which we had forgotten during a house-move.

 

[Sapheron]

The most important thing in my book, the way I portray fate, and two of the most important characters, good and evil, came from a recurring nightmare I used to have.

 

[Off-worlder]

I have had several dreams related to the universe my book is set in. The most memorable, and the most recent, about one of the bad guys I came up with.

 

[Eleika]

Nearly all of my dreams involve some sort of adventure or quest, a mystery, and powers. The trouble is I sometimes only remember fragments.

However, I blog my dreams when I can, and yes, things I dream of have appeared in my writing. The reverse is also true, and I've dreamed about things I've written.

 

[Mouse]

I had a dream last night about three of my characters! Never happened before. Was very cool cos I was one of them!!

 

[Raven Dane]

Once in a beautiful blue moon, I will wake up early in the morning from the cat jumping on the bed or I need the loo etc. Then I go back to sleep and have a wonderfully lucid dream about one of my books. I wish I could have one now, I have the writer's blook from the darkest pit of hell. I usually am very aware of my favourite character Jaz close by, helping me with the storyline, especially his storylines. Its spooky, almost like channelling from another dimension where it is all real. But even my beautiful bad boy has deserted me lately!

 

[RyFrye]

Two nights in a row I woke up in a half sleep, half awake state and saw the dark outline of the protagonist in my story...scared the crap out of me until I realized I could easily handle him with my pen...