Reading and Dreaming

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@HazySue (39264)
Gouverneur, New York
November 21, 2017 11:20am CST
Have you ever found yourself dreaming about a book you are reading? I mean, are you in your dreams continuing on with the storyline once you are sleeping? I often find myself speculating about what will happen next in a book that I am involved in. Sometimes I am right and sometimes I am wrong The interpretation could be close to what the author sees as the storyline. sometimes I am way off. When I first starting doing this way, way back I thought - what the heck is wrong with me? I realized finally that it is just my overactive imagination that is taking control of me. Do you ever do this? Anticipate the ending of an interesting book in your dreams?
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@just4him (306239)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
22 Nov 17
Yes, I do. Not only a book I'm reading, but one I'm writing.
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@HazySue (39264)
• Gouverneur, New York
26 Nov 17
I am constantly dreaming about what I am writing. It's wonderful to see your characters in action isn't it?
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@just4him (306239)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
26 Nov 17
@HazySue Yes, it is. I haven't started dreaming on this book yet. I wish I would. Oh well. At least it's coming together now and making sense, since I took the time to get it straightened out, something you're not supposed to do until after NaNo is over. You're supposed to quash your inner editor for 30 days. Now tell me - just how are you supposed to do that?
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@HazySue (39264)
• Gouverneur, New York
27 Nov 17
@just4him I don't think you can squash your inner editor, it is a part of your writing. I would find it impossible. Sometimes you just know it is going in the wrong direction and if you continue to go that way your book will not be what it should be.
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@Dyvette16 (4301)
• United States
21 Nov 17
Yes I have before , and I believe it was like a mystery book
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@HazySue (39264)
• Gouverneur, New York
26 Nov 17
We can become quite involved in an interesting book. Sometimes so involved that it shows up in our dreams.
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@Dyvette16 (4301)
• United States
26 Nov 17
@HazySue yes very true , & somewhat crazy
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@celticeagle (159032)
• Boise, Idaho
21 Nov 17
I have done this in the past. I also do it with my writing. If I am thinking about it before I go to bed I may dream about it.
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@celticeagle (159032)
• Boise, Idaho
26 Nov 17
@HazySue .....Yes, I agree. I have dreamed or day dreamed scenes and such too.
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@HazySue (39264)
• Gouverneur, New York
26 Nov 17
I think that many times writers do dream the plot and storyline of the book they are writing.
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@HazySue (39264)
• Gouverneur, New York
27 Nov 17
@celticeagle The creative mind seems to never rest.
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@valmnz (17099)
• New Zealand
26 Nov 17
Not quite the same as that, but a good book can weave its way into my dreams by me dreaming myself in similar situations or places.
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@valmnz (17099)
• New Zealand
27 Nov 17
@HazySue I agree.
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@HazySue (39264)
• Gouverneur, New York
27 Nov 17
If a book does that then it is a good book.
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@DianneN (246819)
• United States
23 Nov 17
I don't, but I do think about the books I read.
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@DianneN (246819)
• United States
26 Nov 17
@HazySue I've had my share of whoppers! lol
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@HazySue (39264)
• Gouverneur, New York
26 Nov 17
Some of us dream about the strangest things
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@JudyEv (325758)
• Rockingham, Australia
21 Nov 17
I can't say I have. I do have some really nice dreams though.
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@JudyEv (325758)
• Rockingham, Australia
26 Nov 17
@HazySue Sometimes I know I'm waking up and I'm trying desperately to stay asleep and continue the dream.
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@HazySue (39264)
• Gouverneur, New York
26 Nov 17
It's nice to have good dreams.
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@HazySue (39264)
• Gouverneur, New York
27 Nov 17
@JudyEv now that's a great dream. I hate when they are getting to the good part and your eyes spring open.
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@maezee (41997)
• United States
22 Nov 17
Yes! If its a really good book.
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@HazySue (39264)
• Gouverneur, New York
26 Nov 17
It is something how involved we can become when reading a good book.
@toniganzon (72285)
• Philippines
22 Nov 17
I have been very fond of reading from the time I was able to learn to read. Back when I was in high school, I would miss having breakfast because I was so engrossed with just reading my book. It's the last thing I'd touch by the end of the day and the first thing I open the moment I wake up. And yes there were times when I would dream about the story line.
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@toniganzon (72285)
• Philippines
27 Nov 17
@HazySue That is so true. I had a lot of spare time back then but now I don't. But I still read once in awhile.
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@HazySue (39264)
• Gouverneur, New York
26 Nov 17
Loving to read can become a exciting all consuming thing at times.
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@jstory07 (134460)
• Roseburg, Oregon
21 Nov 17
Yes I have done that. Plus once I had a dream and woke up and everything in my dream was happening. That was really strange.
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@HazySue (39264)
• Gouverneur, New York
26 Nov 17
Now, that is strange. I think I would become a little frightened if I woke up and my dreams were the same as reality.
@sallypup (57869)
• Centralia, Washington
21 Nov 17
Generally when I do such things I am in the middle of writing a short story and I dream scenarios like I am in that story world.
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@HazySue (39264)
• Gouverneur, New York
26 Nov 17
It seems as though we never stop thinking, even when we are sleeping our brain is working on that storyline.
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@FayeHazel (40248)
• United States
22 Nov 17
Actually no, but it must mean you have a great imagination
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@HazySue (39264)
• Gouverneur, New York
26 Nov 17
Maybe. I think it means I am so involved in the book that I can't stop thinking about it.
• United States Minor Outlying Islands
28 Nov 17
Yes, and yet, No ! it the feeling well.. I have like tried to kept up with dreams it almost like a movie theatre only I am the main character at timeAlso, right now I am contuining on dreaming a specific dream that I have enjoyed and thinking of writing it in my Visual Graphic Game Novel... .
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@HazySue (39264)
• Gouverneur, New York
28 Nov 17
It is like watching a movie in your dreams.
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