Monday, March 25, 2013

The Dreams of a Writer

Throughout my life, on significant occasions I have had vivid meaningful dreams.  They reflected what was going on in my life; the stress or the joy or the loss.  They were pretty easy to understand and explain.

Once I made the decision to change courses with a project....an interesting thing happened. My dreams followed the same path and storyline as the book.  Every single one details a part of a chapter that as yet has not been written.  I keep a pad and pen by my bed to record the dreams and started to notice that the subject matter was identical to the book.

So the question is: the chicken or the egg?  Which came first?  It's interesting to ponder but the truth is it really doesn't matter as long as it works. The brain is so fascinating.  It's inner functions and workings determine how we think, how our body works and our creativity or lack of it.  My reaction to this is simple: just say "thank you" and get to work.

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