Letting Loose Your Dreams in Story Form
The oddities of dreams evoke, make us look, stay with us.
The best excersize for writers is to simply write. This holds true when writing our dreams. Write as if it’s not a dream, but as though your dream was something that really happened.
Easier said than done, yes, I know this; we have the tendency as I mentioned in the second article in this dream series Dreams Make the Best Stories?, we are too caught up in thinking of our dreams as being just that—dreams. There is an unequivocal match, however, between picking out objects and moments in dreams for the sake of analysis and retelling our dreams, drawing out the details that make our dreams the awesome stories that they are.
If we can separate ourselves from this traditional way of thinking, and instead rewrite our mind’s stories, not holding back anything, we find that something great happens. We find that we begin to write outside of the box, bringing to life the magic moments that build our lucid mind’s eye.
If we were to relax and take a deep breath, if we were to take out our journals and composite their contents into legible and honest renditions in story form, we find that so much more can go on in our writings, style, telling, descriptions, and etc. than we ever expected. The way that we choose to write the odd, the uncertain, and the questions, strengthens our writing style. This is because we cannot copy another’s style while doing this; in fact you will find it almost impossible. What we tell is our story in our own words. There is no faltering and the only quibble we may immediately have would be with ourselves. An easy fix. Simply don’t hold back.
In a dream group that I began for writers in a small and private writers group I work with, I have noticed that no matter what type of writing these comrades of mine may do, their true, pure, and unique voices appear in their telling of their dreams. Not only does this make for the most pleasurable of reads and discussions, but it also feels right. Feels right to the reader. Feels right to the author. There is a confidence that comes out when writing about something that is so personal, yet is complete fiction.
Take the following post, A Drug Induced Dream “The Apostrophe” as an example.