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I think I need to go to bed earlier, mostly because it's in those moments between waking and sleeping that I get stories; the times when I'm lying there dozing, still sort of dreaming , or at least mulling my dreams in my head, but my conscious brain is just awake enough to direct them, or apply logic, or to fill in some gaps, but not awake enough to poke holes in it. That's where I've had the three dreams associated with the fragments of a dream post. If I go to bed earlier, I ought to be able to do that *and* have less sleep debt. (ETA: The problem here is that I'm also a night person - and my artistic side does its best work between 9 PM and 2 AM. Hrmph.)

I tend to wake up about 5:30ish, since I think the mild sedative effect of the Strattera I take at bedtime wears off about then. I don't mind too much - except when I'm running a big sleep debt - since that's the time when I can usually induce that dreamy-dozy state and sometimes come up with something. (Didn't happen this morning since my brain was preoccupied with other images, but I'm sure it'll happen again soon.) And then I shape it more in my head when I wake up more and am driving to work - obviously I can't pay full attention to the thing in my head as I'm driving, so I think the internal editor is less concerned with the words and story and more concerned with not dying in a fiery crash. That fragment was written in my head on the way to work, and then I posted it before I logged into my work email.

I'm also at a quandary point in that 'fragments of a dream' thing - I sort of want to post notes that I know about it - having an audience somehow makes me more likely to work on something - but I don't know if it'll survive it yet. :/

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As the same sort of night person, and much more inclined to do creative work at night, I sympathize greatly.

The dream fragments are fun, by the way! Thanks for sharing. I often dream in stories, I love it when that happens, and it's neat to hear somebody else's.

:) I think the internal editor needs the harsh light of day, or something. At night when I'm a little bit tired, I can let loose. (Sometimes. It doesn't always work that way. XD)

Thanks! I often dream in stories, or at least my half-conscious brain shapes them into stories as I wake up when there's enough material to do so. Not this morning, however, which was just a sort of mishmash of anxieties and random Japanese experiences that didn't hang together in anything but a few scattered images, none of which are concrete enough for me to draw or anything.

Post it locked to yourself, and then open it as you feel safe.

I have more actual dreams - at least ones that I remember - when I get more sleep. But if I've had a rotten day, I always want to stay up and read or play online because, dammit, I deserve it! It's really stupid of me ... .

I daydream bits of stories all the time - almost all fanfic, these days, but they always really were, except they were my RPG characters before, and now they're manga characters. I usually end up sharing them with one friend whom I can depend on to be a good sounding board, by e-mail.

I remember my dreams more with interrupted sleep, because that way I wake up in the middle of them. XD

I've got lots of stories going on in my head at any particular time, but they're usually heavily based on whatever I'm reading at the moment, with me or some sort of analogue of me as an OC. So: too Mary Sue-ish or too personal to be written as fanfic, not different enough to be written as original fic. XD