(GASP!!! NOT A DEPRESSING BLOG ENTRY!!!)
Once in a while I have what I call "story dreams". They're dreams that are so vivid and follow a sort of continuous story line that I get ideas of a plot and possibly maybe a story if I ever sat down to flesh it out.
Last night's was rather interesting. Lately I've been getting quite a few dreams where I have telekinetic powers (I know, kind of weird) and in each dream these powers get stronger and I have more control over them.
In this particular dream the world was dealing with almost zombie-like beings. These beings were violent, almost along the lines of the reavers from Firefly, though I didn't get the sense of terror from then as one gets from the reavers. (Probably a good thing, otherwise this dream would have been horribly terrifying.) These beings came out from hiding at twilight to hunt in the darkness, and either killed their prey or they somehow sort of...infected them to slowly turn the prey into one of them. As far as it was known, there was no way to reverse this process, so if a friend or loved one was attacked by them and lived, they were as good as dead.
The only protection that the humans had against the beings during the night hours were Sacred Stones, stones that held a great deal of healing protective energy. Depending on how powerful the Stone was, the area around the Stone that was protected increased or decreased. The beings could not cross the area of influence around the Stones, so powerful mages erected these Sacred Stones in the towns and along the roadways. Pretty nifty, really. Only problem was that some of the Stones were weakening, and the attacks from the beings increased as the area of influence shrank.
When the dream started I was just outside the gates to a small town. It was twilight, and I was surrounded by the beings. The only reason I was able to defend myself was because I possessed telekinetic abilities, so basically I was just chucking rocks, boulders, broken arrowheads, anything that was within reach of my powers at the beings, knocking them away until I could get within those gates. I was able to make it in untouched by the beings.
Slowly I became part of the townspeople, and over time, I lost a few friends to the beings (they were infected). Eventually one of the leaders met me and discovered I had telekinetic powers and that I even had a small amount of control over fire. Later I would discover that these were not my only powers.
One night, the Sacred Stone failed. It had been weakening for some time, but then it just gave out. The beings swarmed into the town, attacking everyone in sight. Panic, screams, fire everywhere. I ran to the Sacred Stone and laid my hand on it, and suddenly I felt power leave me and rush into the Stone. Light and glowing symbols danced in front of my eyes as the Stone's power became whole again. The beings, suddenly caught within the Stone's area of influence, screamed in pain. I shouted into the night sky, "BE HEALED!!!" Then everything went white.
That was pretty much the end of my dream, but I had some sense that the beings were suddenly completely human again. Truly it was a fascinating dream, and I would love to be able to work on it to see where it goes.
Hmm...I should post some more of my story dreams. It'd be nice to see what others think of them.
Oh, sweet. That's an awesome dream, and would make a good story! You should use that as the basic plot and write something from it, even if it's just a short story. Eventually, though, that could be enough for a short novel, I think, if you added in enough other parts to it.
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