Thread: Dreams

the reason i am empathetic with simonj's dislike of dream recollection is because i am of the belief that one can not directly transfer a dream onto paper without fabricating or embellishing various parts of said dream therefore ruining the integrity

Originally Posted by faesce

the reason i am empathetic with simonj's dislike of dream recollection is because i am of the belief that one can not directly transfer a dream onto paper without fabricating or embellishing various parts of said dream therefore ruining the integrity

well yes, just like i can't relate a profound experience of mine by telling you about it, even if we were face to face.

regardless, it's interesting to see what other people come up with

and also it's a fucking dream of course things are going to get embellished. Sometimes the things in my dreams are massive embellishments themselves.

Originally Posted by faesce

the reason i am empathetic with simonj's dislike of dream recollection is because i am of the belief that one can not directly transfer a dream onto paper without fabricating or embellishing various parts of said dream therefore ruining the integrity

I can confirm this isn't true, as this thought has crossed my mind before and I'm very careful not to do this.
If I can't remember certain parts I will just write down the dream as I remember, which often means it sounds very disjointed and not flowing well, but at least I didn't fabricate or embellish.