A Drug Induced Dream "The Apostrophe"

Strange lady doctor. Did not look like one. (Doctor I mean, she didn't look like one.) We were in her apartment maybe? Darkish hair. Not too long. Contemporary casual dress. Hair pulled back sort of, sometimes. Lived alone. Glasses? House not too clean, not too not. Had notebook or something she was holding and a pen or a pencil. I was reading before she came into the room and I saw an apostrophe on the page move, like a mite, or apostrophe looking bug, go right off the page.

This is what I’m remembering. But it’s happening too. The apostrophe was on the word “it’s”, second line from the bottom. It just...

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Letting Loose Your Dreams in Story Form

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 tendancy 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 unequivical 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…

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The initial recording of your dreams, and why you sometimes cannot.

Part 3 Dream Series for Writers

So here it is, your dream, in your mind, you’ve woken up by the alarm.  It (the dream) is slipping away.  There is no time to think about it, to hold onto it.  In fact you may not even remember that you have dreamed as the alarm has blown all chance of recollection.  Sad indeed.  Though nothing lost, because what you don’t know you had you’ll never miss or think to look for.

​The fact is, however, that no matter what you may think, you do dream every night.  There are many stages of dreams as well… the getting to sleep dreams (sometimes noted by the feeling of falling, or your body jumping, both of these actions waking you up a bit); the R.E.M. dreams, the longest dreams, though not necessarily the most detailed dreams, these are the dreams in which you can fly…

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