I didn’t really sleep well last night, but the sleep I did get was rather useful.
I woke up at about 2:00 having just had a particularly strange dream. The contents of the dream weren’t too odd, but the way it was presented was. There was a female voiceover telling a story, whilst I saw what she was describing. The story was very poetic. It started with her saying “I remember the first time I went to the beach”, to which I saw a couple walking hand in hand along a beach. The whole story was basically her telling what happened on each occasion that she returned to that beach. It was very powerful…and having woken from it, I wasn’t able to stop thinking about it. I thought about trying to write it down, but as I was thinking that, I started to form another idea, and turned it over in my head for a while, planing to try to get it down in the morning.
By 3:00 I still hadn’t managed to get back to sleep…so I gave up and went in hunt of pen and paper. In the end I grabbed my laptop and took it back to bed, and managed to write a page and a half between 3:00 and 4:00 before deciding that I’d probably be able get to sleep now.
It’s not the story from my dream, but it’s inspired by the first sentence.
I eventually managed to get back to sleep some time around 4:30ish I think.
Overall, I’m feeling rather happy with myself, because this is the first time I’ve ever had a complete idea in my head. So I feel confident that I’ll be able to finish it. Whether or not it’ll be any good is another thing.
But not a very important one.
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