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i used to have a sleepwalking problem...i did it all the time and had alot of nightmares, then the sleepwaling stopped only to return when the nights were too hot in my room, but then even as the sleepwalking stopped, i've always had trouble sleeping because of extremely vivid, sometimes extremely distrubing, dreams....yeah...that's my life..^^;

I have had a dream like that. Mine was the most vivid song that I wrote during the dream itself only to forget later to my frustration. It was really annoying actually. evil

Jurori, you sound like you have really cool dreams. I particularly thought the dream where there was the visual dream and the written dream were awesome.

Once I had a dream entirely in French. Instead of seeing and comprehending my dream in English, I understood it entirely in French and only French. I speak English and only learned some French in high school, so I obviously have never been fluent enough in French to have a dream entirely in French. After waking up I decided, after much thought, that in my dream my mind must have made up fake French words to substitute for the words I didn't actually know.

Another time I dreamt that I was reading the greatest book ever written. The story was amazing. I remember flipping the pages and experiencing the whole story with rapt awe. As I read I couldn't believe I hadn't read the book before, as it was the story to end all stories, the story I'd been wanting to read and know all my life. Within the dream I lucidly realized that the story that I was actually reading was in my dream, which meant that I had written an entire story in my mind, the greatest novel I could ever think of, and I would wake up and probably not remember a bit of the story. I finished the book and woke up. And it was true: I remembered that it was a long and wonderful story, and I didn't remember a single detail of it. It was very depressing. gonk

I haven't used those two particular dreams in my writing. However, I frequently incorporate my own dreams into my writing. Whenever a character experiences something surreal or is dreaming themselves, I usually use a real dream. Somehow it makes it more realistic for me to know that I didn't just come up with a random, fake dream, but used something that came to me in a dream in real life. I've usually dreamt something that is relevant to the situation I'm writing.

Thank you. I think they're pretty fun myself, and people seem to like hearing about them, so... *Shrugs* I've figured out how to remember at least one dream a night, so things have gotten even more interesting.

You all sound like you have pretty neat dreams too. alianorastar, your dream about the greatest book ever written reminds me of another dream I had a year or two ago... very cool. Draconis)Wyrm, it can be fun (though sometimes a little disturbing) to encourage your brain to be as random as it wants. It's amazing how fast your mind can move from thought to thought, so if you let it go, you can be astounded at what your mind comes up with... Keiko_Mushi, I know exactly what you mean. My one dream that was a entire musical? I can still remember all the notes, though I can't quite remember the lyrics anymore. And in another dream I saw a paper with some really cool lyrics and stuff written down, but I never wrote them down myself. I'm so annoyed because now I can't remember...

My dreams are always confusing-I write most of them down, then trn them into stories. My latest dream, there was a guy who was in a very famous band that a couple friends and I were visiting. He was obviously sad, and while my friends were busy talking to other people in the band, I ended up talking to him. Just before we left, I wrote down my number for him.

I've had many strange dreams, and I always remember my dreams. I had one once that hadd an opening title (It was called Shadow of the Wolf) then ending credits when it was over. Very strange.
One dream that I wanted to use in a story was one that was at my school, except everyone was mice. Then there were two albino mice, and brother and sister, who also had special powers and they had to save their school. It was very complicated.

I sleepwalk sometimes, I talk in my sleep too.

Sometimes (acctually quite often) I dream that something happened and it is so real that I really think it happened untill someone that was there askes me what on earth I'm talking about.

I am afraid of coyotes and hights because of one dream I had that I was riding my scooter in my year, though it was greatly defected, and a pack of coyotes suronded me and I ended up backing over a cliff.
Also I've drempt that a coyote was infront of our house and I looked out the window and it jumped at me. I woke up infront of the window.

I had this wonderfully scary dream about a month ago about a royal family which comprised of werewolves. I tried to make it into a story but I'm so bad at continuing what I've finished.