I have weird dreams. Weird, vivid dreams. I generally write them down, and a couple of them, suitably polished, have gone on to earn me spots in professional-level anthologies[1] -- not bad for what is effectively the output of my slumbering brain.
I was flicking back through my dream logs yesterday, looking for something that might inspire a new piece, and noticed that my dreams have become even more vivid and surreal, even for me, since we started working from home. This is an actual phenomenon, and actual scientists are actually studying it for actual science.
https://www.lockdowndreams.com/aboutI've got one that took me 6 pages to write down, in which I was staying with a family in Canada whose son Daniel became possessed by some kind of evil spirit. It played out like an episode of the X-Files.
I had another one in which my mother owned a collection of rare books in a building so distinctive I spent a couple of hours searching for it on google. There was a fire, and I got into a fight with a fireman about saving the books.
The other night I dreamed I was taking part in a reality survival show on an island in Antarctica, and the sea was literally heaving with an over-abundance of marine life, including whales breaching and fluke-slapping metres from the shore. One of the other contestants killed a leopard seal and was slicing big steaks out of its back with the same tool the Faroe Islanders use for slaughtering whales. I wanted to feel it was wrong, but there were so many of them, and we were all starving.
What dreams have you had that made you think, "Woah, that's freaky"? I won't steal any of them unless you tell me I can
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Sam
[1] Details available upon request