Proof positive that writers' brains are messed *the frell up*.

[megwrites]

You should go take jaylake's poll on dreaming. Especially if you are a writer/artist.

I find it very interesting that he's got a poll on dreaming not two days after I had one of the most surreal and disturbing dreams I've ever had.

Amazingly enough, the entire cast of my novel was in my head. And the scariest of my characters winked at me. And then, for complicated reasons that seemed perfectly sensible and obvious in my dream (as they always do), we all touched this big stick which made us sick as dogs. The point of which was to suss out who was guilty of something by who passed out first.

So for a very long time, we're all puking and writhing and screaming and sweating and I'm very intensely trying to *not* pass out.

And with the way I dream, it was very visceral and very real. Literally.

In fact, when I dream intensely enough, it stays with me when I wake up. So if I dream a very, very pleasant dream - I wake up with that in my head. And the same remains true for nightmares.

Fortunately, I have about a 1000 to 1 ratio of good dreams (or at least dreams which are not disturbing, painful, or soul-crushing in anyway) to bad dreams.

But you know you're a writer when your first two thoughts are:

1. "I need some water and I need light RIGHT THIS MINUTE.*"

and

2. "Maybe I can use that somewhere. Hmmm."


*So, apparently, when I have nightmares I turn into a plant. Who needs consciousness when you can have chlorophyll?