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Story: Based on a dream
flyawave:
--- Quote from: deathman on September 28, 2010, 01:50:11 PM ---First of all seriously man you are overthinking your dreams...(do you have narration in your dreams???)
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well, some people (like me) get very detailed dreams, and I too have written notes of them down at some point, with the intention of writing them proper. never got around to doing it but still....
well well... It was nice and simple, nothing outrageously disjointed but a little lack of detail (although, dreams don't go into detail... you just sorta know the details, inexplicably) Last para and line were killer (no pun intended) and overall nice, short and sweet! (Rather like Yuki :3)
fohfoh:
--- Quote from: deathman on September 28, 2010, 01:50:11 PM ---First of all seriously man you are overthinking your dreams...(do you have narration in your dreams???)
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Like I said, it was based on my dream. The narration is added. That's because this dream was seen in the first person with barely any dialogue.
The oddity of the dream actually lies in the fact that it goes from 1st person to 3rd person. I wasn't able to explain this within the way it was written, but actually, the "scene" after the stall part was almost all in 3rd person. (The character is seen).
I'm not sure about the over thinking part, because I tried not to analyze it but write it "as is". The "scenes" were essentially shown, and then you're in the next one without knowing how it connected to the prior one (though it certainly feels like it's connected with the prior scene).
If I did have to analyze though, it would be based on the last statement on most of the paragraphs. There is a feeling that time isn't "flowing" correctly. afternoon, evening and night are in sequence, then (is supposed to be morning), noon and evening with a 3rd evening that's full of gloom. The first 2 "sets" feel like 1 day. The last gloomy evening feels like days, weeks or even months later. Like I said... it "feels". Another being the fruit and the phone. Everything else in the story seems real, but the fruit seems, odd. It's not a real fruit, nor is the black "decay" something that seems like an actual thing in our world. The phone is another, and I guess it's because of the way that I "saw" the dream and you the reader my visualize it. But in this dream, the whole area seems like a multi-layered small town. The market area feels like a festival that you'd see characters in animes participate in. There's very little technology. Also, there was no way to signify the gasoline as gasoline. It just behaved visually as gasoline.
This story/project was actually inspired by a social psychology class I took. The premise is actually based on sleep studies and differing brain waves. I thought the dream was odd enough to try and recall. You'd be surprised the amount of detail you can remember if you are able to capture the key words, concepts before you forget it.
If anyone is confused at anything, I can try and explain. There's details I had no idea how to incorporate into the narrative. There are things I can parallel that are similar to anime, but those are only after-analysis, and not actually part of the dream.
deathman:
--- Quote from: fohfoh on September 28, 2010, 07:08:04 PM ---
--- Quote from: deathman on September 28, 2010, 01:50:11 PM ---First of all seriously man you are overthinking your dreams...(do you have narration in your dreams???)
--- End quote ---
Like I said, it was based on my dream. The narration is added. That's because this dream was seen in the first person with barely any dialogue.
The oddity of the dream actually lies in the fact that it goes from 1st person to 3rd person. I wasn't able to explain this within the way it was written, but actually, the "scene" after the stall part was almost all in 3rd person. (The character is seen).
I'm not sure about the over thinking part, because I tried not to analyze it but write it "as is". The "scenes" were essentially shown, and then you're in the next one without knowing how it connected to the prior one (though it certainly feels like it's connected with the prior scene).
If I did have to analyze though, it would be based on the last statement on most of the paragraphs. There is a feeling that time isn't "flowing" correctly. afternoon, evening and night are in sequence, then (is supposed to be morning), noon and evening with a 3rd evening that's full of gloom. The first 2 "sets" feel like 1 day. The last gloomy evening feels like days, weeks or even months later. Like I said... it "feels". Another being the fruit and the phone. Everything else in the story seems real, but the fruit seems, odd. It's not a real fruit, nor is the black "decay" something that seems like an actual thing in our world. The phone is another, and I guess it's because of the way that I "saw" the dream and you the reader my visualize it. But in this dream, the whole area seems like a multi-layered small town. The market area feels like a festival that you'd see characters in animes participate in. There's very little technology. Also, there was no way to signify the gasoline as gasoline. It just behaved visually as gasoline.
This story/project was actually inspired by a social psychology class I took. The premise is actually based on sleep studies and differing brain waves. I thought the dream was odd enough to try and recall. You'd be surprised the amount of detail you can remember if you are able to capture the key words, concepts before you forget it.
If anyone is confused at anything, I can try and explain. There's details I had no idea how to incorporate into the narrative. There are things I can parallel that are similar to anime, but those are only after-analysis, and not actually part of the dream.
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Fist of all answer this...do you take drugs??? ;D ;D ;D ;D
flyawave:
--- Quote from: fohfoh on September 28, 2010, 07:08:04 PM ---This story/project was actually inspired by a social psychology class I took. The premise is actually based on sleep studies and differing brain waves. I thought the dream was odd enough to try and recall. You'd be surprised the amount of detail you can remember if you are able to capture the key words, concepts before you forget it.
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Psychology eh? elaborate plz
fohfoh:
--- Quote from: flyawave on September 29, 2010, 02:50:29 PM ---
--- Quote from: fohfoh on September 28, 2010, 07:08:04 PM ---This story/project was actually inspired by a social psychology class I took. The premise is actually based on sleep studies and differing brain waves. I thought the dream was odd enough to try and recall. You'd be surprised the amount of detail you can remember if you are able to capture the key words, concepts before you forget it.
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Psychology eh? elaborate plz
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It was based on sleep patterns. REM sleep, delta waves etc. that type of thing. That section of the class was based on a video that showed and outlined a sleep study that was done on participants. Participants were given a notebook and their brainwaves monitored. Once they hit a certain wave, they were "forced" awake and requested to write down on a pad and paper what they had just been dreaming. They were then requested to go back to sleep and the process was restarted again for different brain wave types.
Certain types of brain waves usually yielded an individual running over past experiences. The example was a tactile snowboard arcade game which the participants either played only once or twice, or continuously. Those who played once or twice, and even those who played continuously showed the greatest improvement after "sleeping on it". It generally had the idea of "simulation".
Certain types of brain waves were also sort of like simulation, but also "testing the realities of the "real world". Generally the "odd dreams". The example in here was an individual who claimed he had a dream where there was a grasshopper in his kitchen chatting with him or something.
Testing was also done in the REM state (rapid eye movement) and non-rapid eye movement. I'm not fully sure about this one, but I think they also confirmed that you can dream without REM.
But sleep study format in that representation.
1. Participant sleeps in a "clinical bed". Basic with a table beside the bed. On the table is a notebook and pen.
2. Participant is hooked up to all sorts of monitoring equipment. Video recording equipment is also set up
3. Participant goes to sleep and is woken in certain time intervals (which generally are "transition time intervals" from a certain brain waves to different brain waves)
4. Results are recorded each time the participant is woken up by the researchers as well as the participant. (Participant records the dreams, researchers record the physical state)
5. Comparison and reflection is done the next day.
5a. participants are requested to recompile the dream.
This is also repeated with individuals who don't write anything down. Those who record on notebooks remember way more than those who don't.
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