Sometimes my dreams scare me. Sometimes they make me laugh. Literally. The whole scene from the movie The Waterboy, in which a university professor asks the class why alligators are aggressive and in which Adam Sandler stands up and explains scientifically: “ Because alligators have all their teeth and not they have a toothbrush, ” he repeats in a dream. and apparently it made me laugh out loud in my sleep. Sometimes my dreams just tell me that I need a major vacation from reality, like when I dream that I’m reviewing the ever-fascinating prescribing information for a drug, that insert with the really little kind that contains all the potential side effects and warnings about the drug, which, if you really read it, can drive you completely insane.

My mother, my aunt and I always have really strange dreams when there is a full moon. What is the scientific explanation for this? I’m sure I don’t know. My mom once dreamed that she was covered in baked potatoes. He also dreamed that he was a basketball star and kept running around the court and dunking the ball (he’s five foot three, by the way, and woke up sweating). Most of my weirdest dreams have to do with food. One time I was floating in life-size ice cream with peanut butter sauce. On another occasion, he was skating inside a huge pinball machine and there were bars on the bumpers. I’m pretty sure I was dieting when I had those dreams. Why can’t I just dream normal Pierce Brosnan dreams or wait, I dreamed of Pierce Brosnan once and can’t get into the sordid details here?

Sometimes it helps to disassemble a dream and interpret it. Sometimes, frankly, the performance sucks; a dream is just a dream. But let’s try one of mine. The giant ice cream. Dreaming of ice cream obviously denotes pleasure and satisfaction with your life, good luck and success in love. I have yet to find a dream book that has entries for peanut butter sauce. I dreamed that there were tornadoes swirling around me the other night, this supposedly suggests that I am experiencing extreme emotional outbursts and tantrums (wait, that’s just my daily work day!). I also dreamed that I got kicked out of American Idol (at least I was in the final round), and again, I laughed in my sleep. On a more serious note, several days before 911, my mom and they both had strange dreams; I dreamed that I was among many people running out of a very tall building in New York City and she dreamed that a submarine was hitting the ocean floor so hard that a building was collapsing. That was, frankly, weird.

My point, and I have one, is that dreams can be good fodder for a writer. I read somewhere that we all daydream an average of 70 to 120 minutes a day. Obviously, there are some who take time wasting to another level, daydreaming 18 hours a day. That’s a lot of time wasted unless you put it to good use, say, like in your novel. I highly recommend activities like sleeping and daydreaming that let your mind wander and lower your level of consciousness to the point where you get lost in your imagined story (not, of course, when you are operating heavy machinery or driving in a freeway lane or performing brain surgery). For my first fictional thriller, Dead On, I was thinking so much about my characters that I actually started dreaming about them. Chapter 21 of Dead On is actually the result of a dream I had, which I think may in part be an inherited memory or traumatic past life that I lived before recorded and often skewed textbook history. I used most of the dream from the book and added a little bit to it, because of course Dead On is fiction.

Dreams can heal, entertain, inform and stimulate. Some dreams are quite common, like being caught naked in a public place or being back in high school where you can’t remember your damn thing. locker combination. In the case of the writer, dreams can help you plot and explore while your grumpy, fussy, self-destructive critic is depressed. Dreaming can help you be the writer you always imagined yourself to be, it can connect us with the human race and our art. However, the benefit of topping with baked potatoes is still being studied.

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