Do you dream about books?
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Re: Do you dream about books?
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My answer to the original question, yes happens to me only when I spend all my free time readin non-stop day-in and day-out for like 3 days though. But at that point I'm basically walking around day dreaming and mumbling my own made-up scenes. It's quite a specticle...
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I often dream that I'm "inside of" one of my own books and at the same time I'm writing it. Now I write modern crime fiction that tends to be fairly violent at times so I often confront a dangerous situation that came from my own book. What a drag, ha ha.
Other times I replay a scene from my novels and sometimes that helps me, in that upon waking, I remember a detail or problem that I'd not resolved too well, and I have to go back to the text and correct the problem prior to submitting it to the publisher. Eeek!
As for dreaming from someone else's books? Occasionally. I'll tussle with a dangerous foe or get involved in some scene of a book which I've just been reading. In these, I'm usually a bystander and not involved in the story line, just watching from the sidelines.
Since I've seen this thread I'll report on specific dreams that fit the test as they occur.
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"Where is the fish? Where could it ever be? Is it over there....? Is it over here....?"
(from Monty Python's Meaning of Life)
Is it fish in a tank to look at? Is it fish to catch in the lake or river? Fish to eat?
Or is it flaming hordes of demonically possessed vampire-zombie giant person-eating fish who are just about to bust down your front door? Eeeek!
(oh, sorry, did I somehow influence your dreams?)
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-- 07 Oct 2015, 00:14 --
I thought I was crazy when I woke up after dreaming about books! I'm relieved that I am not the only one. I have had dreams where I continue reading in my sleep and start to morph the story into what I think is going to happen next. I usually wake up shortly after thinking, who does this, I must be a complete cook! It's comforting to know that this happens to others!
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