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Post by ch00beh on Mar 10, 2011 11:26:17 GMT -5
So for creative writing, I'm thinking of doing a story set in the dreamscape just to show up the dream sequences that everyone else has tried writing. Just to give myself a bit more visuals to draw on, I also want to induce lucid nightmares on myself for at least a week before writing it. I mean, where else would I get the inspiration for embedded lucid waking nightmares except from IRL? (fuck inception)
Also, even if it doesn't help, it'll be a funny story in class. Also also, I just want to get back into the biz of remembering dreams at all. I swear I'm the only creative type that doesn't get super vivid dreams.
So anyone have any tips for such a task? My current plan is to start up my dream journal again, then when the week comes, just read Lovecraft before bed (haven't read any of that stuff yet, been meaning to, this seems like a good excuse) while listening to Tool, including the scary noise parts.
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Post by Tout-Perd on Mar 11, 2011 13:22:19 GMT -5
When you're about to fall asleep, force yourself awake and turn out all the lights. Then read through SCP and Nightmare Fuel articles for an hour or two. Fall asleep.
Enjoy.
(This of course, is best used to supplement above plan.)
I've also found that sleeping in a different position than normal, if you can swing it, works wonderfully. I tend to have violent, terrifying nightmares until I force myself awake and then move into a better position.
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Post by Ninety on Mar 11, 2011 17:49:02 GMT -5
Opeth is another band to listen to. Cynic may not give you nightmares but they've given me some vivid dreams. Richard Matheson writes good horror stories. This is a good, quick one to knock out. I've got a big book of stories selected by Alfred Hitchcock that is good bedtime reading. They're probably all available online too. Fishhead - Irvin S. CobbCamera Obscura - Basil Copper A Death In the Family - Miriam Allen deFord Men Without Bones - Gerald KershNot With A Bang - Damon Knight Party Games - John BurkeX Marks the Pedwalk - Fritz Leiber Curious Adventure of Mr. Bond - Nugent Barker Two Spinsters - E. Phillips Oppenheim The Knife - Robert Arthur The Cage - Ray Russell Casablanca - Thomas M. Disch The Road to Mictlantecutli - Adobe James Guide to Doom - Ellis Peters The Estuary - Margaret St. Clair Tough Town - William SambrotThe Troll - T.H. White Evening at the Black House - Robert Somerlott One of the Dead - William WoodThe Real Thing - Robert Specht Journey to Death - Donald E. Westlake Master of the Hounds - Algis Budrys The Candidate - Henry Slesar The ones in bold are ones that I remember being really good. I haven't read them all though and don't remember which ones are unread.
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