Paul Simon dreamed his latest album, titled Seven Psalms, into existence. It’s a great piece of music.
He
had a dream during the pandemic in which a voice told him that his next project
would be called Seven Psalms. He got up every night for ten months and wrote
down words and music that came to him between 3:30 a.m. and 5 a.m. Simon’s
dreams were normal, not lucid, but lucid dreams are even more exciting.
Robert
Louis Stevenson usually got his ideas from dream incubation. The Strange Case
of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is the best-known example.
Lucid
dreaming is the next step in learning from dreams.
Lucid
dreaming happens when you become aware you’re dreaming, and that’s when the
dreamscape becomes as real as waking reality. It’s an altered state that is
within everyone’s grasp.
If
you want to know what you should be writing or harvest characters or ideas from
your subconscious, use lucid dreaming. In lucid dreams, you can interact with
situations and people and have perfect control over the dream.
Try
out a plot, ask what the next chapter should be, or allow the dream to show you
possibilities you hadn’t thought of.
Explore.
You are, after all, a writer. It’s what we do.
~William Hammett
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