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

[skylarker.livejournal.com]

I often have those split dreams, too. One of the weirdest (and disproving a common superstition) is when I died in a dream, buried under a mudslide, but then shifted perspectives to another dream character.

I suppose people could be found in real life who looked like strangers in our dreams, but I don't think that would prove anything either way.

[cloudscudding.livejournal.com]

I'm amused that this is the second "don't fear dream death" response.

And yes, there are a limited (though large) number of variations on a standard theme when it comes to faces. Almost everybody has a nose.