Awesome narrative dreams suck

[sessifet]

I love having them, but really only while I'm asleep and dreaming. Once I've woken up, I feel slightly sulky because a) I was having this awesome dream and now I'm not, b) I was asleep and now I'm not, c) I will never be able to explain the awesomeness of the dream, and d) I realise the dream wasn't actually awesome, it just felt that way because the brain is very good at fooling itself.

Still, armoured and intelligent dinosaurs running towards a space ark as the other side of the world is being engulfed in flames due to an asteroid strike is one hell of an image. The whale-like marine reptile having to stay behind because there wasn't time to fill the tanks with enough water to sustain him was just an attempt at gratuitous tear-jerkery on the part of my brain, though.

And the dream of the naked man with circuitry under his skin and tattoos on the outside was astonishingly vivid. Especially considering I was him. Which was a bit offputting when he pulled a live rodent (it was okay! Disturbingly fluffy and cute and willing to stay with the naked man considering the circumstances...) from his mouth because he couldn't breathe around it. And there was shouting in another room about royal symbols and prerogatives which had something to do with the circuitry and tattoos and possibly finding live rodents stuffed in your mouth.

Well, at least it wasn't hamsters with flashcards...

Comments

[ciciaye.livejournal.com]

I've had a couple of those, usually where I'm singing something, and the song sticks in my mind when I wake up, but not being a songwriter or musician there's nothing I can do about it. Either that or I'm reading a great book or watching an excellent film/television series, and am disappointed to wake up and find out that, since it was a dream, I can't find the rest of the book/series to watch

[ciciaye.livejournal.com]

Oh, and there was the one where Family Bites got made into a film. Or it might have been a television series. Either way, it had great casting and I had some money in my pocket...