In an interview, Francois Truffaut asked Alfred Hichcock if he ever used his dreams for film material. Hitchcock said, no - never. Truffaut asked why. Hitchcock said that once he woke up in the middle of the night after a dream containing a brilliant idea for a movie. So he got up and scribbled it down. In the morning, he remembered he’d written something down, and read his note. It said, “Boy meets girl”.
Don’t worry it probably wasn’t as good as you remember.
That reminds me of how a few years back I wanted to keep a dream journal to learn lucid dreaming. One morning I got out of the bed writing down the dream(s?) I had in detail and was happy with how much I wrote down. Then some time later I woke up with my notes nowhere to be seen to find out that I wrote the notes in a fucking dream, fuck. I’m still disappointed about that. I don’t even remember what the dream was about. I probably would remember if I had the notes. >:(
There’s also the opposite to this, when someone else reads your stuff and says they really like a certain part, and you look to see what it was and it’s something you wrote 'cause you just needed a transition from point A to point B and you put zero thought into it/don’t even remember writing it.
Nobody ever likes the bits you agonized over for ages and thought were really good lol.
Don’t worry it probably wasn’t as good as you remember.
That reminds me of how a few years back I wanted to keep a dream journal to learn lucid dreaming. One morning I got out of the bed writing down the dream(s?) I had in detail and was happy with how much I wrote down. Then some time later I woke up with my notes nowhere to be seen to find out that I wrote the notes in a fucking dream, fuck. I’m still disappointed about that. I don’t even remember what the dream was about. I probably would remember if I had the notes. >:(
There’s also the opposite to this, when someone else reads your stuff and says they really like a certain part, and you look to see what it was and it’s something you wrote 'cause you just needed a transition from point A to point B and you put zero thought into it/don’t even remember writing it.
Nobody ever likes the bits you agonized over for ages and thought were really good lol.