I woke at 5am and wrote on a pad of paper the main plot points of the dream I was currently in. When I finally got out of bed I read this...
plane crashed into boat
we put boat in [a very large] pool
stigmata blood everywhere [in the water and on the survivors]
pulled people out of crash
drained pool
talking to Jason [my brother] at night in the rainy backyard
mom covered head and face with foil
Notes to the reader are in [ ]
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I'd be interested to know how your memory of the dream connected to the notes you'd taken. We often tell our dreams in a linear storyline fashion, even though we don't really experience them that way. Sometimes notes like these feel like inadequate ways of relating dreams, other times they seem most appropriate to the actual experience.
Dreams, just like the real world, are too complex to cram into a list or short story. Lists and stories are low resolution maps to reality. I feel the story method works better for my dreams, however when one wakes me in the middle of the night, a list is as much as the most I can muster in my groggy state. But I will agree, there are some dreams which are not linear enough for a story and list are more appropriate.
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