Is there anything to writing about your dreams? When I'm

>>9359629
This is embarrassing-- but I once used to meet a person I was dating at a certain theater once a week that was a full three hours from where i worked, usually on a Thursday. I'd work all day, get there without eating as quickly as I could, then immediately commence falling asleep (and shaking myself awake) the moment the lights went down. These states of exhaustion elicited the most wonderful halbschlaf visions while the plays were being performed, some of which i wrote down, most of which were lost.

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Yes; I once came back from a party where loud music was played for hours and when I went to bed in complete silence I could hear very loudly full sentences and even instruments playing along creating different songs.

Funny you mention this cause earlier today I dreamed a sci-fi story about some kind of LHC experiment going wrong and literally bringing about hell on earth

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>>9359629

It is a known phenomenon, Dali used to do something like this (google something like "dali hypnagogic spoon" without the quotes) and a few other creative types also used this method. This is the first article that popped up when I searched for it, seems to talk about it in detail: http://www.artofmanliness.com/2015/02/18/hypnagogic-nap/

Some people used dreams differently. Van Vogt's work method involved waking multiple times in the night to write then go back to sleep. In music, the Aphex Twin guy talked about using lucid dreams to write some of his ambient stuff, etc.

It's not magic, but like meditation or anything else, you can take advantage of it.

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>>9361070
To add to this, when I say this is not magic, there is this famous anecdote about Hitchcock waking in the middle of the night to write what struck him as the best story idea he ever had. In the morning, when he remembered what he had done, he went to read what he had written down and it simply said "boy meets girl". So yeah, it won't necessarily make you dip into the great collective unconscious or whatever, but it can still be useful to get creative ideas.