Hey everyone! (If you aren’t interested in the setup, Skip to the end of this to get to my question.)
I had a pretty lucid dream just now, in which I was in a technology lab with all my friends and classmates from High School. Someone told me to wear earplugs to save myself, so I did. It turns out this lab place was turning everyone into a mindless zombie using some sort of sonic wavelength. For the remainder of the dream, I had to pretend I was in a mindless mind-control trance, too.
We eventually got sorted into boys and girls, and the boys all “camped” in one room, similar to a prison cell with bunkbeds of sorts. I was now in a private room with all of my boy crushes from HS, and they were all mindless puppets essentially. I came up to one of my crushes and slapped him across the face in an effort to try and wake him up from the control, but his face just took the slap and limply fell to the side. However, It wasn’t a sexy moment, considering I actually believed I was in this situation.
Then I woke up and immediately used it as a source for a story idea. (Also was bummed I didn’t take advantage of the dream scenario in a hot way)
BUT the point of me sharing this dream story, other than to tell a hot dream I had, was to ask if you guys ever reference your dreams at all when coming up with concepts for stories. I know people dream in different amounts and in different vividness, but I was curious.
Yes, in a way, but what you call a “lucid dream” is described as a dream where the dreamer is aware that they’re dreaming.
For me, the line is blurred. Especially when I was younger, I had very sexual, juicy fantasies in bed, involving many of my kinks, which then faded into actual dreams or vice versa. I guess this is quite common.
And some of those fantasies were then fleshed out in stories I’ve posted over the years. Some more … special fantasies are still sitting there, waiting for me to find the courage to write them down and publish them.
Yeah, I do have lucid dreams, but this wasn’t one of them. I was more using lucid as an adjective in that scenario just describing that it was vivid, but I wasn’t controlling it.
If I was controlling it I would’ve had a lot more fun ahaha.
But, I think you should flesh them out even if its just for your own sake : ). I love writing down my dreams even if they don’t turn into stories just because it helps me remember them more. I would love to hear your dream scenarios as wacky as they may be!
I don’t recall ever having an original idea that specifically came from a dream. My creative ideas are either original to me, or taken from other fiction I’ve read and then either pastiched wholesale or altered as variations on a theme. Then I work on them on a conscious level.
Sometimes I have erotic dreams that specifically conform to my kinks. (And which are disappointingly few in number, to be honest. Or maybe I just don’t remember them.) But in those cases the inspiration is working back the other way, from conscious level interests to dream manifestation.
I’ve had a few dreams that I remember well enough to make into stories but they often don’t get finished because either I don’t remember it all or it makes leaps of dream logic that just doesn’t work or I write the outline as soon as I can before I forget but then have little interest in finishing it. Another great workout I think is the only one here that came from a dream the rest are just on my desktop waiting for the day I might finish them.
When I begin posting stories (as Spiders) all my stuff was from dreams.
I had a kind of late and fucked up puberty where I didn’t know I was gay for a long time, and my wet dreams were really odd, and in some cases quite unsettling.
As time went on, I ran out of weird dreams to write about
