I hate my brain. · 4:07am Oct 8th, 2013
I've spent the last week fighting distractions while I try to sit down and force some words out for stories that I'm working on and then I woke up this morning with a completely different story idea mostly formed in my head. I remember that specific parts of it were from a dream, and the rest kind of just formed while I lay there puzzling over how weird it is that I actually remembered a dream.
Seriously, I almost never remember my dreams. Even when I do, they're extremely... odd. The dreams I remember tend to be very nonsensical but in an oddly coherent way. Yes, I know that makes no sense. Stuff like playing tennis with a 30 foot tall virus that wants to stomp me into the ground if I lost while i was sick out of my mind with the flu. It's wtf level material that makes sense at the same time given the context around it.
The last two nights, though, I very clearly remember my dreams. The first one was typical fare, silly stuff about the FF6 opera scene and then I woke up with the song stuck in my head all day.
Last night, though, was a concept that just won't leave my brain. After I stayed in bed puzzling over for at least two hours it I wound up finally getting up and writing down a basic outline the idea that clocked in at three thousand words. So now I have this idea that I'm nowhere close to being ready to write and needs so much more work before I can do anything with it, while trying to finish up two other stories.
Seriously brain? I don't need more projects.
That being said. I can't figure out where this concept came from. I feel like I should be remembering a part of it from somewhere, but I can't really place where my brain picked the concept up from.
The basic idea is that it revolves around a dreamworld called the fading (name would be subject to change if I actually wrote this out) and a little girl that can visit it. The world isn't made up of traditional dreams in the way that you think of with stuff like Sleepless in Ponyville. It's more of an amalgamation of the hopes and dreams of the people around the character involved. She can look into the fading and see the hopes and aspirations of someone nearby, which is an amazingly astute way to look directly at someone's character. The whole landscape of the place is effectively shaped by the emotions of the people around her. And with the weight of something so heavy weighing down upon a girl so young, it affects her character and therefore the people around her.
I feel like I should recognize key parts of this from something but I can't for the life of me place it.
Seriously, please help, it's going to drive me crazy.
I hardly remember my dreams too, and when I do I go... wtf.
I know I have seen something like that... I even pictured it for a moment, but our minds are VERY good at playing tricks on us. For instance, Deja Vu is usually just your mind messing up and getting the same data twice rapidly.
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There's a lot more details to it, but obviously I'm not going to go in depth about a story idea that I might actually write in a blog.
I actually remember like 90% of my dreams.
Some of which are... peculiar.
Deja Vu is an interesting topic for me. PM me if you wanna talk about it. I don't wanna clog yo' blog
1403896 of course. Just saying our brains can be real pains. It makes me wonder if Pinkie's is just really good at processing ALL information, rather then just the necessary (as our brains do). If you do write the story, someone will probably make the connection if there is one. Then again, who knows for certain? All I know for certain is ghosts and nukes go well together, and I would read it.
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What about Science Vessels? Also it would probably not be pony related. They were very clearly ponies in the dream, but it kind of works better with humans I think.
1403926 Probably would, and science vessels are my crack, them some tanks, and some thors, and far too many air forces... Hated that last mission though, by the time I realized I should have been spamming perdition turrets for meat shields / more bullets, I was saved in a bad spot... That will teach me to do what I did!
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My dreams are kinda like that too. Things like someone sawing antique furniture in half with an electric shovel while I'm having a mental breakdown about it, and some Freudian stuff involving phallic symbols and game shows.
But I have had some coherant dreams too, ones that I wish I could have recorded. Ones that were very entertaining, with well-developed characters, intricate plot lines, and amazing miyazaki-level animated visuals. Ones I would pay money to see in a theater.
Oh, and that plot seems so familiar to me too... blast.
Kinda sounds like the Persona series (Shin Megami Tensai) with the whole "other world being affected by the hearts and minds of others" thing.