Pro tip: My friend said my dream about the grocery store was 'too linear'

He pointed out that I just walked in and bought milk, no flying or sudden lava pits. Now I try to add at least one impossible physics rule per dream. What's a good baseline weirdness quota?

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4 Comments

james_mason782mo ago

Honestly, that's a solid plan... I started doing something similar after a dream where I was just doing laundry. Now I try to make sure gravity works wrong in at least one scene, like the couch floating up to the ceiling.

knight.dylan2mo ago

I read about a writer who puts one impossible thing in every chapter.

blair_taylor322mo ago

Wait, you can just add weird stuff like that? I used to get stuck trying to make everything make sense, but hearing you put a floating couch in a normal scene actually makes me want to try it.

michaeltorres1mo ago

Yeah, exactly. I have this rule now where every story I write has to have one moment that would never happen in real life, no matter how grounded everything else is. My last one was a guy who could only speak in movie quotes after midnight, and his girlfriend just rolled with it. It makes the whole thing way more fun to write and keeps me from getting bored with my own story.

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