Why do my best ideas for "Wings of Quiet Longing" come to me just before I fall asleep?
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Why do my best ideas for "Wings of Quiet Longing" come to me just before I fall asleep? Conversations or quotes, ideas for scenes, you name it. I swear to god, I had to make about 10 notes on my phone last night. Every time I closed my eyes, I thought of something new. Am I alone here?
@floofpaldi nooope you're not.
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@Emmacox Oh no! I want to cry for you, seriously. That has to be the worst feeling in the entire world. I'm going to cross my fingers that the idea will return to you some night but write it down this time when it does. You're so clever, so it'll come back. Arms, legs, fingers, all crossed for you!
@floofpaldi I fear it has gone forever. Hopefully an even better idea will present itself. I'm about 3/4 done with the outline, but the last part needs a clever way for the antagonist get what's coming for him.
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@HeliaXyana @floofpaldi heh. Staring at the keyboard this morning. Sure I had an important detail flash through my brain last night.
Ugh. (I have a hellacious cold.) was it just a fever dream?
Coffee resurrected it. It was a nuanced - between the commas - little thing. And. It was real.
@slott56 @HeliaXyana I'm glad it finally came to you after the coffee settled in your system and helped! It sounds like a beautiful little thing as well!
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Ha, yeah, well, I'm pretty used to the whole lucid dreaming thing, but the missing notes mystery took me a while to figure out. I thought my notes app was broken or something, so went with pen and paper, but it kept happening. It took me waaaay too long to figure out I wasn't actually taking notes, just dreaming about taking notes. I'd be a rubbish detective.
@HeliaXyana We would both be rubbish detectives, so you aren't alone. I'm snickering over here. That's just too funny. Dreams are so weird, dude.
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@floofpaldi Sort of a dumping ground for stuff in my head. I adopted a rule when I was 8: learn something new every day and memorise it. And do not go to bed until you do.
BTW, chemically in the noggin, it is very similar to the "great idea in showers" phenomenon. Tired, super relaxed, brain wanders easily.
Kind of amazing how good the brain is at taking a shitload of data, cross pollinating it, and generating new ideas.
@retech But that's just the smartest thing to do, learning a little something every single day and trying your best to retain it. The human brain is a fascinating thing. And speaking of the brain, I agree with all of that. It happens to me in the shower just as much as before bed. I keep joking that I need a waterproof pad and pencil, just to try down the best of my ideas when I'm showering lmao.
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