Simply Everything

By Peter K. Lam

Dreams have always been a great source of story material for writers. A good imagination and vivid, interesting dreams always tend to develop into stories one way or another. For me, I used to have a bunch of wild and bizarre dreams. I have written several stories based off my dreams. Just trying to make sense of the symbolism in dreams have always interest me. Unfortunately over the last several months or so, I noticed that I haven’t really dreamt when I sleep.

I’m not really sure why I haven’t had all that many dreams lately. I really enjoy dreams because every night is a new adventure. I never really know what to expect and I’m actively taking note should this new dream be good source material for another story.  I kinda miss not dreaming that much.

It could be due to any number of things. Every since I started working after college, I haven’t had time to read. I used to read a lot of books and comic books. Reading stimulates the mind and exercises the imagination. So it helps get the creative juices in my head flowing. The last book I read was almost a year ago. It was Gods Behaving Badly by Marie Phillips which was a really funny book. I read it during a very stressful point in my life. It was a great read and just a nice little escape from the stress of the world. So since then I haven’t read much. I’m in the process of reading Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman but I’m only 100 pages in so it’s still in the beginning. I’m sure if I started reading again my imagination will kick start.

The other issue is stress. I’ve been stressed over just life in general and it just drains my mind of creativity. I guess it could be with a heavy load on the mind, it’s kind hard to be imaginative and creative during sleep. The mind is taking a much needed rest so just silence and peaceful would take precedence over dreaming. Makes sense…

One of my goals for the future is to relieve some stress and read more. Being dreamless is really no fun. Having all those dreams at night really make a difference. It may help improve the creativity of my writing too.

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