random dream = book idea?
I've always wanted to write a book. I don't have the patience for it. But every once in a while I get this urge to write something. Or read something really well written. Most especially, I have this desire to read this truly great science fiction story. There have been some the approach my desire. The Giver. Ender's Shadow. The movie Children of Men was almost there, but the book was awful. I read books A Brave New World, which my husband counts as one of his favorite books ever. It was slow and the story was so undeveloped. The Handmaid's Tale had some promise, but I wanted to know the background of what had happened, not just what was currently happening. Basically I think I want a huge epic, akin to Lord of the Rings, but more futuristic. One with a cool alternate reality, where there are marked problems with mankind or humanity, with a hero or group of heroes that have to overcome some sort of oppression. I want to know the entire story, bring me up to where the current plot is occuring, so I know all the background and then get to the part of the story we are reading. I don't really know. Last night, I had this great dream, it seemed like such an amazing story. I want to remember it, I'd like to watch it in movie form.
I was a teenager, around 19. My brother and I were sleeping and when we woke up we were falling from the sky in these tubes. We landed in this room full of people, where there was obviously a meeting going on, something like a town hall type meeting. They were voting on people, one guy at the front who was very attractive and slightly older was reading off names, and each time a name would be called another person was writing them down on this big electronic board. We stood at the back of the room and watched, until a name was decided upon. Immediately, these LARGE alien guys that looked a little like squid walked in the room and took the man that had been chosen. The room was entirely silent, no one watched as he was taken away. Then they noticed we were in the room and there was a huge uproar and we were instantly surrounded as they ripped off our "earth" type clothes, threw them in a fire and replaced them with these brown tunics and brown pants. The guy who had been at the podium was sorta the leader of the group. So we were staying at his house. There was a whole lot more plot, at one point involved me falling in love with this leader, learning his wife had been chosen for the Alien guys years before, learning that the chosen people were basically being sacrificed, one per week so the alien things could experiment on them... All the people were working for the aliens, growing fruits and vegetable for them, cleaning, building,etc. They were essentially slaves for this alien colony. But eventually in my dream, the leader guy and I decided to lead a revolution, to try to get out. We were worried that the longer we waited, the harder it would be because our numbers got smaller and smaller. We started having people build weapons while they were working, and started growing some sort of poison plant to feed to the aliens. I woke up before I got to see the entire plan play out, but there was much drama with several human members getting killed, including my brother.
i wish I could have slept a little longer to see what happened.
I was a teenager, around 19. My brother and I were sleeping and when we woke up we were falling from the sky in these tubes. We landed in this room full of people, where there was obviously a meeting going on, something like a town hall type meeting. They were voting on people, one guy at the front who was very attractive and slightly older was reading off names, and each time a name would be called another person was writing them down on this big electronic board. We stood at the back of the room and watched, until a name was decided upon. Immediately, these LARGE alien guys that looked a little like squid walked in the room and took the man that had been chosen. The room was entirely silent, no one watched as he was taken away. Then they noticed we were in the room and there was a huge uproar and we were instantly surrounded as they ripped off our "earth" type clothes, threw them in a fire and replaced them with these brown tunics and brown pants. The guy who had been at the podium was sorta the leader of the group. So we were staying at his house. There was a whole lot more plot, at one point involved me falling in love with this leader, learning his wife had been chosen for the Alien guys years before, learning that the chosen people were basically being sacrificed, one per week so the alien things could experiment on them... All the people were working for the aliens, growing fruits and vegetable for them, cleaning, building,etc. They were essentially slaves for this alien colony. But eventually in my dream, the leader guy and I decided to lead a revolution, to try to get out. We were worried that the longer we waited, the harder it would be because our numbers got smaller and smaller. We started having people build weapons while they were working, and started growing some sort of poison plant to feed to the aliens. I woke up before I got to see the entire plan play out, but there was much drama with several human members getting killed, including my brother.
i wish I could have slept a little longer to see what happened.