happygoluckysockmonkey79
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i get ideas for my stories from everything
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Does anyone else daydream?
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Super Fantasy
Maester
Often
I've always done this, and every other writer I know does it. What messes with my head is wondering what non-creatives think about all day, if it's not imaginary friends and lives lived that aren't our own.
AlexArcter
Scribe
I used to day dream about cartoon and anime style fights. But nowadays I occasionally slip into my universe for some daydreaming. It's kinda cool.
I'm a little jealous, I've always wanted to get into lucid dreaming.
Empathy001
Dreamer
Oh I absolutely Daydream. Once when I was little, I had a daydream that I could literally travel to other worlds (basically reality shifting, but I didn’t know there was a name for that at the time.) I was so convinced that I made a bunch of my friends that I could do it, and then they began to claim they could as well. Looking back, I just wanted to be special, and my friends didn’t want to be left out, so we all collectively gaslit each other into believing it was real for like a year lmao.
If I'm to judge by my non-creative daydreams, it's probably intense debates on topics that weren't brought up. I'd be a wealthy man if I could cash in the amount of times I've been enraged by an illogical argument an imaginary strawman made in my head.
That is hysterical, mostly for me because my wife did that with her entire 6th Grade class, teachers and all, roleplaying an espionage thriller about a clandestine military organization during the Cold War. Appropriate, as it was in reality during the Cold War. The 80's were trippy.
Super Fantasy
Maester
I feel as if when awake im only day dreaming.
Perhaps I should write a poem about such day dreaming?
Perhaps I should write a poem about such day dreaming?
Empathy001
Dreamer
Uh, ABSOLUTELY write that? You have the talent and the idea, here’s the support!
Super Fantasy
Maester
Day dreaming.
When day dreaming, I feel my mind a cloud.
And this day dreaming helps me think of poems to write.
Such as this poem.
In the morning I feel I am counting sheep out of spite.
As they are out of sight.
And when I daydream so, I feel like I am rather sleep walking.
Like my waking dreams the previous night are mocking.
When day dreaming, I feel my mind a cloud.
And this day dreaming helps me think of poems to write.
Such as this poem.
In the morning I feel I am counting sheep out of spite.
As they are out of sight.
And when I daydream so, I feel like I am rather sleep walking.
Like my waking dreams the previous night are mocking.
SandyC
Acolyte
That's very interesting because it works the other way around for me. If I don't write it down immediately, preferably straight after waking up, the dream fades too quickly. But if I do, I can often return to it the next night when I think about it as I fall asleep. Sometimes it continues.
Mireille
Scribe
I work in the exams office in a school. I couldn’t do my job well if I couldn’t daydream. 2 hours in silence, watching students’ stress requires an active inner world.
LuminaryGhost
Scribe
I find it hard to stop!
Daydreaming is honestly where I do most of my planning (now if I could actually get around to writing those damn daydreams down, we'd be cooking with charcoal...)
One of my fave things to do is what I personally call the "Clue" method. I imagine an interaction between characters, a fight, o whatever, then dial it back and ask "okay, but what if it happened like this?"
Daydreaming is honestly where I do most of my planning (now if I could actually get around to writing those damn daydreams down, we'd be cooking with charcoal...)
One of my fave things to do is what I personally call the "Clue" method. I imagine an interaction between characters, a fight, o whatever, then dial it back and ask "okay, but what if it happened like this?"
I too, almost never remember my dreams. I try to keep a notebook & pen handy at all times. But ... in the middle of the night, with the possibility of waking up 'you know who', I decide I'll remember in the morning. I concentrate on the bits I remember, attempting to repeat them over and over until I'm sure I can't possibly forget ... and then I eventually fall asleep, again. In the morning I always remember that there was a dream I should remember ... but! Daydreaming is useful. It's exploring possibilities with the ideas you already have. Write everything down. It can be a part of your 'Zero draft.'I almost never remember my dreams. And certainly not long enough for them to become a story. I day dream on purpose. When i younger i did that whenever i could. As an adult its more focused. When in writing mode, i imagine the story and scene well before writing it. Dreams mattermy characters better appreciate them.
Pesimystical
New Member
Hi all, I daydream too often, so my current book is busy writing itself, I am bursting with ideas just don't have the time to write it all down. So I've learned to daydream at 4a.m. Often giggling to myself when a new idea materialises.
jjxtra
Dreamer
My head is usually in the clouds. Being autistic, I find myself lost in random thoughts frequently. As a kid, it's practically all I did at home. That and play on the computer.
