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> > > This will probably sound pretty silly, but my best inspiration has come from dreams.
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> > That's not silly at all! A large portion of my stories have started out as dreams, which I just built upon. The things your slumbering mind dreams up are so incredible...scary sometimes, but still incredible.
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> Well, I had a *really* stupid dream last night; maybe somebody can turn it into a decent science fiction story. I was planning on going out in the boat to look for whales today (which we did, and saw nothing AT ALL except one penguin), so I guess I must have been thinking about whales when I went to sleep.
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> Anyway, the dream was about how whales got NASTY, and were plotting ways to come up on land and eat all the humans, and everybody had to move off the coastline up onto mountains and things as a result. I think the whales had organised some sort of cunning plan whereby they were making the sea level rise, too. It wasn't a gradual thing, it all happened FAST, so there was this mad rush and we were all climbing up this cliff face with the water rising underneath us and hyperintelligent crazed evil fanged whales trying to get us.
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> Brunnen-"needs psychiatric help"G

Wow. That really dwarfs my dream from last night. I was in a band with a few other people, one of which was a pretty girl with short, blonde hair. After we performed a concert, we all went back to our home, which was this hole in the side of a smallish hill. Actually, if it had been in real life, not a single person would have been able to fit in it.

I've been making up a lot of songs lately and thinking of ideas for stuff to do in music videos and things to do for album covers and stuff. It's what's been bubbling in the back of - well, not the back of my mind, but the middle. I guess what my dream was trying to tell me was that, yeah, it may be great and wonderful, but I won't exactly be rich doing it.

My stepmom had* a book about dreams. I think it was put out by Dorling-Kindersley**. I've looked through it before and it's really quite interesting. Of course, it would be a lot better to have a person there to help you interpret it, rather than a book, but people cost money.

-eric "Dork Music Ltd." sleator
Sat 17 Feb A.D. 2001


*Actually, she probably still has it. The past tense should be on stepmom, not has.

**I don't remember the exact name of the publishing company, but it was definitely DK.