fallen was the star above the fortress hill

[hawkwing_lb]

Yesterday, while cleaning up some of the detritus of a week of alien invasion (I have the forces of the enemy in full retreat now, but that's besides the point) I came across one of my notebooks from two years ago.

It's a habit of mine to carry around a notebook with my kit - it's often handier to take short notes for college and societies and make the kind of lists that keep me moving forwards than to use my A4 pad, outside of lectures (around which my life still revolves) - and sometimes when I wake up from a dream in the middle of the night I'd be writing it down, especially if it involved strong imagery, people who are not recognisably people I know, and/or the entire plot of an epic mutli-volume novel.

(Trust me. The entire plot of the epic novel thing has happened more than once.)

So. It turns out I had a story-dream which I wrote down and promptly forgot about. Said dream involved an airship with clockwork "sunsails" (don't ask me, I just work here), "normal sails", prisoner-transport, "Badlands - jagged purple lightning, red rocky peaks, weird and uncanny forests, non-functional navigational instruments" and a cast of characters for whom, given that this was a dream I apparently immediately forgot, I wrote down rather a lot of incidents and backstory. Among which is my scribbled line "can be c'dmned slavery in civil suit? countersuit by cmpny/patron? = what result?", "communication by silver bowl" and "lost city?"

Yeah. Well, I read through that notebook last night before bed, and guess what? I dreamed about it last night. Again. In technicolour with chases, and explosions, and Character Moments (tm). I think that's weird. And slightly creepy.

Comments

[rysmiel.livejournal.com]

Those actually sound like they fit together, more than the notes for the end of Armageddon Dreams that I came back to this year after five years that say things like "chocolate/knives", "golem scene (this book contains no golems)", and "l'eucatastrophe c'est moi" I still have not figured out what the first one meant.

[hawkwing-lb.livejournal.com]

They do. The weird thing is that it only took me a few minutes after reading the notes to actually remember much of the dream - which contained a long and involved plot, had the sort of colour-scheme one associates with a sort of guts-and-cinema-vérité war film, and smelled like the dust smells on Gozo.

(I dream story dreams in full VR.)

Yours sound like extraordinarily disconnected notes by comparison. "golem scene (this book contains no golems)"? :)