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Post by Deleted on Apr 5, 2010 9:51:34 GMT -5
Do you incorporate your dreams and nightmares into your stories?
Last night I had a horrible nightmare which involved the death of a 1 year old. As a father, it shook me to my core. As I tried to shake the images from my mind, I wondered, what is the limit for putting something in a movie. There is no way in hell I would write a scene like I saw last night in my nightmare. It was just too disturbing. Even though that idea is something I would never want to see, I have been toying with an idea about a horror script where ex-wives are hacked to death.
On the other hand, I have had dreams that were quite interesting as concepts that I thought I could use. I recall having one dream where I was walking down a freeway, post "end of the world as we know it". The city was an auburn color due to the dust and smoke in the air. I walked past a family that was burying their loved one in the dirt area of a freeway off-ramp. There was no more room in the cemeteries, so people were burying their loved ones wherever they could.
When I awoke, I actually wrote down the dream because it was quite the scene visually.
Have any of you put your dreams/nightmares into a script? If so, what was it of?
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Post by trellicktower on Apr 11, 2010 19:53:02 GMT -5
Unfortunately I haven't been blessed with a great story in my dreams yet (that I can remember!)
However, I was once semi-consciously aware that, while asleep, I wrote the most perfect song ever (I also write songs in my spare time). I remember thinking to myself that it is a truly incredible melody, and that I need to get up and record it so I don't forget it. I didn't, and of course I didn't remember it in the morning!
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Post by tous on Apr 14, 2010 0:33:28 GMT -5
mybrainshurt- I'm all about writing dreams. I think that's where the most interestingly involved ideas come from, but its so hard to translate. Or at least delve into with the story of your dream as the concept, as opposed to a small little part.
But I have a whole file filled and I've actually been - (on the side) trying to incorporate it into visual terms of writing, like screenwriting, because they are all about visuals. But Dreams are very emotional too, extremely so- So much that they are sometimes better written as just prose, all cluttered and unresponsive.
So I entered my dream on 2 separate nights as an alias. I've lost the name, but I was a detective, but i didn't know what i was doing in this outside parking lot, when these punk looking guys taking apart a car came up to me and then I realized they didnt know i was a detective (hat/trenchcoat didn't give it away- go figure) so i knew that i was undercover. But, im big on dreams so realizing this was a dream. I actually just dropped all my shit and was like Fuck this. And just started flying about. Haha, ya. So I've been playing with that.
OH ya! LAst night though- had a dream. It was a goddamn musical. Anyone ever have that? Just straight up music video, people dancing in the airport. Share share share!
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Post by mo on Apr 14, 2010 17:30:52 GMT -5
@mybrainshurt - I have to say, your horror-dream sounds very exciting. Even if you don't to write a similar scene, try to figure out what disturbed you so much. If it moves you so much, it probably will other people to. Embrace the dark stuff.
A couple of weeks ago I had a dream where a lady sucked on a cut-off finger like a lollipop. It was very Lynch-esque but it really interested me. So now I try to figure out, how something like this could have happen. Reverse-engineer the story that lead up to this image. But I haven't got very far until now...
I definately noticed that my dreams become very cinematical. With great action and nice camerawork. Really great stuff and very entertaining. In preparation for the new season of Lost I watched 4 seasons in 4 weeks; sometimes 8 episodes in a row (I am a student and think great fiction needs personal sacrifices). In the nights after these sessions: MAN, I was on that island....
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Post by Deleted on Apr 25, 2010 8:07:05 GMT -5
tous - I think you could come up with a story where the protagonist is dealing with some sort of dementia. That would enable you to incorporate the dreams you have had. Bend the rules of reality. Let the antagonist move through dimensions. Why not? I think it would be odd and amazing. Mo - I don't know if I could call it exciting. Being a father, it was very hard to watch a 1 year old be killed, but it was especially horrible in the way that I saw it in the dream. I could absolutely use the same killing method in the horror script about ex-wives, but I do not think it would have the same impact. Quite frankly, I also think it would turn off an audience. There is a LARGE part of the population that wouldn't mind seeing their ex bumped off, but NO ONE wants to see a child hurt. For that reason I don't think it would ever work in a script. There might be a way to get it in, but why would you want to? True story perhaps?
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Post by dwight on May 11, 2010 1:25:41 GMT -5
I love this topic. I'm fascinated with dreams. I often have amazing lucid dreams. Caffeine/green tea in the evening definitely responsible majority of the time. Definitely stresses my body more than it needs to, but i will be fully conscious in a lot of dream. For story ideas... Oh so many. I've gotten about 4 full movie ideas from dreams that I absolutely love and would make entertaining concepts. So I hope to tackle all of them as I improve on the craft. So when it comes to choosing concepts, I tend to take them from my dreams, from concepts i have a personal connection to, or mix theme. Being an extremely deep sleeper, i've spent a lot of good time in dreamland, i definitely need to get these lucid dreams onto paper... well not the pervy ones . but the great concepts. Two big reoccurring themes i'll have in dreams. First is father son dreams, the heavier ones are me losing him. Second, more lighter hearted, falling for a girl who is on the 'bad guys' side. So pursuing her and trying to win her heart. I will often get close, but usually she stays evil and double crosses me, or something happens to her. A definite loved then lost idea. (i'm sure that can bet translated into always chasing the unobtainable woman hehe). Time to jump into dreamland now... Hopefully i'll get that million dollar movie idea!
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