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stgulik ([personal profile] stgulik) wrote2011-06-29 06:57 am
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Beta dreams

Good morning. Amazingly sleepy. My head is still swimming with beta dreams. Whenever I do beta work right before bedtime, I have beta dreams, which are like regular dreams, except for several major differences.

First, people in these dreams are almost exactly like regular dream characters, except they carry their  personalities outside their bodies. A personality is nearly invisible, resembling a silo of swirling, translucent smoke that floats above a character. Nobody remarks on other people's visible personalities; it's as normal as skin. And at crucial moments in a dream, I am capable of stopping the plot and messing with the personality silo of any character, changing the dialogue and all subsequent decisions.

Second, at these same crucial moments, I also run back and change elements. In last night's dream, I added cars to a passenger train so my characters would neglect to sit together when they boarded. You'd have to have been there. On second thought, it's a good thing you weren't, because I might have messed with your personality silo.

[identity profile] mimimanderly.livejournal.com 2011-06-29 04:25 pm (UTC)(link)
That sounds SO FREAKIN' AWESOME!!! Sort of like a lucid dream, then? I guess you know you're dreaming when you are having this experience?

I'm a bit envious, as I scarcely remember my dreams, and when I do, they seem so pedestrian.

[identity profile] stgulik.livejournal.com 2011-06-29 04:36 pm (UTC)(link)
I only really remember my dreams when I'm awoken in the middle. And I don't exactly know I'm dreaming but I know I exist outside of the plot ... if you follow.

[identity profile] teddyradiator.livejournal.com 2011-06-29 05:33 pm (UTC)(link)
That is cool. Only very, very occassionally, will I realise I am in a dream, and then I do my darndest to manipulate it. It usually unravels soon after, but I do get a huge kick out of recognising I'm in a dream. Most of the time I'm just carried along in a series of events.