Dream Diary #127: Character Building

I was on a ship in the middle of a beautiful ocean.

I was working on an actress of a movie; the plot of the movie involved a group of individuals who were hired by a wealthy man to retrieve a ancient ring from an exotic temple as he wanted it to propose to his significant other. 

The movie, which was directed by Keanu Reeves for some reason (?), had all the typical characters you'd expect to see in such a film - there was the handsome main character (the hero), the pretty girl (the hero's love interest), the comic relief, the villain etc. - but I couldn't figure out for the life of me what my role was? It seemed as though if you removed my character from the movie, it would make no difference to the story whatsoever. 

I brought this up and was reassured that although there was a script, depending on how we interpreted our characters and the chemistry between us actors, our roles within the story were fluid and could change at any given moment. 

I suddenly got a flash forward to the end of the movie and the main character was embracing me instead of the actress playing the love interest!

Sure enough, once we started filming our scenes, my character did indeed have more natural chemistry and rapport with the lead actor than the actress hired to play the love interest. 

Filming inside all of the temple's caves and tunnels was so much fun, I completely forgot that we were in a movie. 

The dream then switched a little and I had given my mum and my sister an excerpt of a love scene I had written for them to read. I was apprehensive and nervous at exposing that side of my writing to them but they told me they thought it was really good and that they enjoyed it. 

Feeling proud myself, I took the pages from them and tried to put them in order as they were all jumbled, but couldn't because after several attempts to make sense out of what I'd written I realised it was still in my head and I hadn't written my love scene down yet.

Dream Diary #118: Riding The Waves

I was strolling along the seafront with a friend that I didn't recognise as anyone I know in real-life, when with an almighty roar and crash, a tidal wave descended down upon us, without warning.

Miraculously, we somehow survived, but knew we were on borrowed time as the tide started to retreat out to sea again and we knew another wave was on it's way. We didn't know if we could survive a second time around.

Of course, the logical thing to do was to find our way to higher ground, so we found a nearby hill to climb up, that frankly would've done absolutely nothing to protect us if it were a real-life tsunami situation. 

Thankfully, as it was a dream, we could sit from our spot and observe the natural phenomenon in safety.

To my surprise, The Obnoxious Girl showed up; and although I was surprised, I was sort of expecting her as well, as though my unnamed friend had been discussing her coming along with us, prior to the tidal wave.

Normally the presence of The Obnoxious Girl annoyed me, but due to the common 'enemy' of the tidal wave and our shared amazement at the phenomenon, we actually started to get along and she joined us on the little hillside as we watched another wave form in the distance.

Dream Diary #97: Ethereal Guy

I was half-observing, half-participating.

A girl was jogging along a secluded beach when she discovered a mysterious man washed up on the shore.

He wasn't physically hurt, but seemed confused and excitable. He wasn't a local but was unable to tell the girl where he came from.

They ended up walking along the beach and then the town together, just talking and having fun, until they had spent the best part of the day with each other. It seemed as though he was seeing and experiencing some of the things they were doing for the very first time and the girl was enjoying showing them to him. 

It was becoming very clear that she was falling very much in love with him.

At first she assumed that he was an angel that had fallen to earth because of his mysterious origins and innocent personality.

It turned out she was very close, as he was actually a mer-man from the ocean!

After spending the day together on land, he took her on a tour of his world under the sea. They interacted with the other marine creatures that they met along the way, and he took great delight in showing off his prowess by demonstrating how high he could breach the surface of the water, like a killer whale. 

This is where I stopped observing and became a participant in the dream because he then grabbed my hand and took me up with him. The entire experience was breathtaking and otherworldly.

The girl reluctantly returned to her life on land, with only a vague promise that they would meet again, but it quickly became apparent her encounter with him had changed her life forever. She no longer fit in with her family or peers and life now just seemed all the more mundane and dull in comparison.