Ideas from dreams.

[Gord.T]

Sorry folks, nobody around here I can share this with so your it.

I've been struggling with an idea for an animated short.Well, one with a good story. This morning while sleeping I'm having an abstract dream:

A few people in a room, an actor/actreess being interviewed and mentioning his/her last movies. There were 3 movie titles mentioned that I thought were really good. At that point I was entering the twilight zone and becoming awake and thought, I've got to remember those. As I awoke the first 2 titles I instantly forgot but the last was called Kakos Whale. I thought that sounded like a good title for an animated short.

So I got up , lit up a smoke and googled it (actually sympatico-d it). And there was 'Whale watching in the Caicos Islands.'

I swear I had no idea there was such a thing in such a place. And while my spelling of Caicos was wrong I was pronouncing it the same. Caicos & Whales.

Must have been back in my subconsious somewhere but wierd that my subconsious has heard of it but I haven't, hehe.

My brothers last two shorts were also originated from his dreams.
Not a bad source I guess.

I've heard of other dvxusers having the same kind of thing.

[OldCorpse]

Good for you, since you can pull it off. In reality, I find that 99% of the time, when folks dream they have a great film/novel/music idea, when they wake up, the idea sucks. Same as when folks are high on something - the great idea, and often they discuss it with their friends who are also high - well, when they come down, the idea sucks.

Of course, exceptions happen. I myself one time had a pretty decent idea while dreaming - but that was once out of maybe 50.

In any case, if you can do it, more power to you!

[Gord.T]

Meant to say I've heard of whale watching ofcourse, just not in the Caicos which ???.

And I mean the topic in my case. I can build another story around that. That idea is enough. My brother tends to see more of the story in his dreams then, in hoffnungs case we tried and develop it into a short story using the basic 'scenes'. Not a great short in the filmakers sense, if you know us, but that's the drift.

There is a famous Canadain writer that writes almost, if not all, of his movies based on nightmares he's had. My bad for not remermbering his name at 'this' moment. I'm sure it will come to me in a few seconds as soon as I post this.


//Doooooohhhh. David Cronenberg. I know the face and the movies. Just had a brain fart there. lol.

//For me it's more like 1/300. The rest is plagerized or sucks like you say.

[bill totolo]

Go to bed with a bell in your hand, when you begin to drift off you'll drop the bell and wake yourself up. Having a notebook by your bedside, you can write down any ideas that occurred to you during twilight.

[Anhar Miah]

Hmm, some of my dreams are kind of scary, because I had a dream I think like 12 years ago it was an image of a dismembered human body (it was a nightmere) but the real scary thing was, a few years back at my first Uni, one of my friends "introduced" to me some certain websites that can only be described as "not conducive to humanity" shall we say, it was a complete psychological shock, those images shouldn't be seen by normal humans, they are just sickening, thankfully after many months of mental "cleansing" I've managed to wipe those images from my mind.

But the scary part was that one of those images matched (somewhat similar) to my dream I had 12 years ago, bit freaky for sure.

But on the bright side (after that rather morbid titbit of my life),
I once had a dream of a lion, and when I woke up I drew it almost exactly and got an A for it in art lesson :)

[stephen_nugent]

Been enjoying sleep paralysis (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_paralysis) lately, usually accompanied with the paranoia that someone's in the room. Could well be an idea for a short. After the first time i lost the excitement though, now it's just this stranger who comes in and lets the tap running to annoy me.

[Anhar Miah]

has anybody else has that experience, when you just fall asleep, but wake up REALLY suddenly as if you have just tripped over (but just before you land you wake up) ? does it even have a name?


//edit
never mind found it:

http://www.failedsuccess.com/index.php?/weblog/comments/falling_sleep_hypnic_jerk/

[Drew Ott]

I get those often. It's when you're in a really light sleep and your mind starts to shut off your physical body for your sleep. If you are woken up somehow during the transition you can jolt when you wake up.

By the way, "Keiko" is the name of the whale from Free Willy.

[ilauzirika]

has anybody else has that experience, when you just fall asleep, but wake up REALLY suddenly as if you have just tripped over (but just before you land you wake up) ? does it even have a name?


//edit
never mind found it:

http://www.failedsuccess.com/index.php?/weblog/comments/falling_sleep_hypnic_jerk/

yes and it's really weird.

[thematthewbone]

i do this all the time. i always wake up with the dream super vivid and it seems like such a great idea for a story.

thirty seconds later when I grab the pad I always feel like the idea is ludicrous.

I think the emotions you attach to the idea in the dream is what makes it so appealing. I think as soon as your conscious mind takes back over and the emotions slip away it feels silly.

now, if only I could capitalize on those emotions eh?

[Gord.T]

...By the way, "Keiko" is the name of the whale from Free Willy.

Haha. Figures. Another plagiarized dream. Drats.