I Am Amused By the Workings of My Brain.

[abracanabra]

In my dreams, half the time I'm male, and half the time I'm female. One-quarter of the time, I'm much older than my real age, and half the time I'm younger. I find this interesting. Last night, I was an older man, kind of a retired-badass sort of character. Also, there was river surfing on 2x4s, which totally wouldn't work in the real world.

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Some combination of my mule-headed stubbornness, devil's-advocate tendencies, and "I can write anything"-itis results in my brain clicking over into plot-generating mode as soon as somebody issues a challenge, or doubts that a story type can be done well, or mentions how rare a certain kind of story is. That's how I got a Highlander parody involving the evolution of mallows nesting in my story idea file. Can't somebody just pay me for my plots?

Comments

[seabream.livejournal.com]

Highlander and the evolution of mallows? Your sleeping dreams, mundane perhaps, but not your waking ones. "pay me for my ideas" - funny enough that for all that one needs a good screenplay to get hired, so little (in terms of dialogue as written) of so many screenplays make it to their on-screen versions (with many exceptions being writer-director productions). Of course, that doesn't make the screenplay any less work. (p.s.: noting that andpuff has blogged her brief experience screenwriting (in between her day job as a _hmm_ normal(?) fiction writer [I'd say novelist, but she also does short stories, poetry etc... and 'screenwriter' still overlaps with 'fiction writer'. I wonder whether they're still authors.]) around April 2007)

So, out of curiosity, is "retired-badass" functionally the same as "retired, badass"?

Are you mostly you, broadly speaking, in the dreams when your age and/or gender aren't?

I'm another of those who tends not to be in the subset of dreams remembered on, or in process of waking. I'm not even in them in the sense of being a viewpoint character. Generally I dream in something like a directed, medium focus, third-person omniscient. Directed meaning that I know that I'm dreaming, and can choose what I'm attentive to, though not what is happening in the setting.

[cloudscudding.livejournal.com]

More "retired from being a badass."

I always feel like myself, though in dreams I often have memories or history that me-outside-of-dream does not.

I wish I could get back to directed dreaming. Mostly tha would entail a lot more recording of dreams.