Keep a note-book by your bed and immediately on waking or in the night jot down the dream while it is still there. Best tip for storytellers.
Dream example
A man is laying two tons of gravel on a garden patio. There was a sinkhole and in the corner of the patio a six foot hole appeared. A ball went into the hole and a child went after it. The gravel was only small stones, the child had jumped in to rerieve the ball and the movement meant the stones started filling up. The closer the man went the more stones moved and the child got stuck. the more the child moved the more stones smoved, like quicksand...
What does that mean?
Some of the most arresting images are ones that are abstract or have another meaning. Dreams have been used in film for a long time.
Luis Bunuel (Un Chien Andalou, 1929)
David Lynch (Eraserhead)
Define three dreams that you could use as a narrative
Levi-Strauss Binary oppositions
Analyse your narrative in terms of binary oppositions
Aristotle Poetics
Analyse your narrative in terms of Aristotle's ideas about a beginning, a middle and an end and the unity of time, place and action
Barthes Codes
Analyse your narrative in terms of Roland Barthes codes
Todorov's equilibrium
Analyse your narrative in terms of Todorov's theory of narrative
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