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So that I don't let my Hebrew degenerate over the summer, I'm planning on writing a story series in Hebrew.
I was thinking there could be a dream world, in which an entire "planet" of people live based on one man's dreams. Time is different there, so once a week (corresponding to every 24 hours in the real world), the scenery changes because the man dreams that it does, and the inhabitants have to live with the consequences for the rest of the week. Obviously, it can be really dangerous, because if the man has a nightmare, the people have to live in the nightmarish world for a week until he dreams again. So people grow up going to special academies where they learn how to fight zombies and dragons and random monsters, etc.
If the dream guy dies, then he really does die in both worlds, and the world ceases to exist, since it only exists because he dreams it. If he dies in the dream, one of the dream-worlders has to be sacrificed to bring him back to life before the world ceases to exist. So that's what they do, and to make it fair, they have a lottery set up, and whoever is chosen by the lottery has to be the primary protector of the dreamer. If he dies, then that person is the one sacrificed. That way, the person is chosen randomly, and also if the dreamer dies, the person sacrificed is sacrificed because of his/her own mistakes in protecting the dreamer.
So I was thinking I'll write from the perspective of a girl who is chosen by the lottery to protect him. She maybe breaks some of the dream-worlder taboos in the process of protecting him. For example, you can't tell the person that they're dreaming. Telling him *might* save his life and thereby the life of the protector, but it could also result in him not caring about what happens to the dream-worlders, so for the sake of the whole dream world, it's one of the major taboos to tell him. You also can't explain the dream world to him. If you explain it to him, then there's a possibility that he will mess up the entire world a lot more by dreaming things that happen to the entire world, as opposed to things that primarily happen to his immediate surroundings. There might be other taboos, but I haven't thought of them yet...
There are also general survival rules that I've thought about, for the protector and other people around the dreamer. If you're carrying weapons to protect him, you need to avoid letting him see them, because if he sees them, he might dream that they don't work. That sort of thing.
I'm thinking maybe once I write these, I'll post them on LJ or something with a translation. So anyway, I'd really like peoples' thoughts, and it would be nice if I could get you guys to suggest random dream scenes. :D
And wolfbrotherjoe, if you find this a little similar to the dream that you posted recently, you may have been part of the inspiration. ;P
I was thinking there could be a dream world, in which an entire "planet" of people live based on one man's dreams. Time is different there, so once a week (corresponding to every 24 hours in the real world), the scenery changes because the man dreams that it does, and the inhabitants have to live with the consequences for the rest of the week. Obviously, it can be really dangerous, because if the man has a nightmare, the people have to live in the nightmarish world for a week until he dreams again. So people grow up going to special academies where they learn how to fight zombies and dragons and random monsters, etc.
If the dream guy dies, then he really does die in both worlds, and the world ceases to exist, since it only exists because he dreams it. If he dies in the dream, one of the dream-worlders has to be sacrificed to bring him back to life before the world ceases to exist. So that's what they do, and to make it fair, they have a lottery set up, and whoever is chosen by the lottery has to be the primary protector of the dreamer. If he dies, then that person is the one sacrificed. That way, the person is chosen randomly, and also if the dreamer dies, the person sacrificed is sacrificed because of his/her own mistakes in protecting the dreamer.
So I was thinking I'll write from the perspective of a girl who is chosen by the lottery to protect him. She maybe breaks some of the dream-worlder taboos in the process of protecting him. For example, you can't tell the person that they're dreaming. Telling him *might* save his life and thereby the life of the protector, but it could also result in him not caring about what happens to the dream-worlders, so for the sake of the whole dream world, it's one of the major taboos to tell him. You also can't explain the dream world to him. If you explain it to him, then there's a possibility that he will mess up the entire world a lot more by dreaming things that happen to the entire world, as opposed to things that primarily happen to his immediate surroundings. There might be other taboos, but I haven't thought of them yet...
There are also general survival rules that I've thought about, for the protector and other people around the dreamer. If you're carrying weapons to protect him, you need to avoid letting him see them, because if he sees them, he might dream that they don't work. That sort of thing.
I'm thinking maybe once I write these, I'll post them on LJ or something with a translation. So anyway, I'd really like peoples' thoughts, and it would be nice if I could get you guys to suggest random dream scenes. :D
And wolfbrotherjoe, if you find this a little similar to the dream that you posted recently, you may have been part of the inspiration. ;P