Dreams make the best fiction
So this morning had a waking dream and I feel like I need to write it down. I was dreaming in the 9min times between snooze button slaps. I find that during this time I have a small amount of control over what is happening in my dreams. So I think that the current dream could make a good short story or even a novel if I were so inclined.
The dream, I am not sure where it started out that has faded into the realm of forgotten dreams go. The setting is very Ayn Rand. We start off in a world of the very near future. People are working and society is functioning as normal. As time progresses products disappear and the government steps up its control of the people. The cityscape starts crumbling more and more rapidly. As the gov't increases its control it starts listening in on peoples conversations in their house from trucks in the street. As resources become more scarce people begin to use their houses and belongings for electricity (there are power plants in everyone's basement that will take any kind of fuel.) The wealthy begin buying up the houses of the middle class and just dumping them into the generators. Cars are only driven by the govt at this point.
This is the most vivid part of the memory of the dream. An underground movement of bicycle riding youths (16-25 or so) start planning to leave the towns where the govt controls everyone through fear and surveillance and increasing thought laws. The masses are complacent and just go about their lives living on the places where their houses used to be.
I had to get up for work so I couldn't conclude this dream so I don't know where the conflict will come from but I am sure that I can mull this over in my head and find something. Also I need to cement down who the characters are going to be and whether I can follow 1 person or several characters from several different POV.
If this dream is actually just my brain replaying a book or movie please tell me since I can't for the life of me remember anything that is identical to this. But I did finish reading and then seeing A Scanner Darkly.
The dream, I am not sure where it started out that has faded into the realm of forgotten dreams go. The setting is very Ayn Rand. We start off in a world of the very near future. People are working and society is functioning as normal. As time progresses products disappear and the government steps up its control of the people. The cityscape starts crumbling more and more rapidly. As the gov't increases its control it starts listening in on peoples conversations in their house from trucks in the street. As resources become more scarce people begin to use their houses and belongings for electricity (there are power plants in everyone's basement that will take any kind of fuel.) The wealthy begin buying up the houses of the middle class and just dumping them into the generators. Cars are only driven by the govt at this point.
This is the most vivid part of the memory of the dream. An underground movement of bicycle riding youths (16-25 or so) start planning to leave the towns where the govt controls everyone through fear and surveillance and increasing thought laws. The masses are complacent and just go about their lives living on the places where their houses used to be.
I had to get up for work so I couldn't conclude this dream so I don't know where the conflict will come from but I am sure that I can mull this over in my head and find something. Also I need to cement down who the characters are going to be and whether I can follow 1 person or several characters from several different POV.
If this dream is actually just my brain replaying a book or movie please tell me since I can't for the life of me remember anything that is identical to this. But I did finish reading and then seeing A Scanner Darkly.