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Stpwriter,
I'm glad my ideas don't come at that hour, because I'd never have the discipline to write them down. 
I am always utterly amazed at the similarities and differnence in the way people who write do their writing. I've been over to the site briefly and will visit again. Thanks. I also read the story about the popcorn, but I cannot remember if I commented.
posted by
word.smith
on July 2, 2005 at 9:15 AM
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WordWizard..
Now that's painful and it's happened to me time and time again. Now, if I don't have a scrap of paper I try to come up with some sort of rhyme or a sequence of words to jog my memory.
posted by
word.smith
on July 2, 2005 at 9:13 AM
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Tapsel,
Neither am I either, but it is disturbing when something you've dreamt about happens. I felt that way after my mother died and I kept seeing her in dreams. I think it was natural, having lost her, but the disturbing part was that I felt that she kept trying to tell me something - just couldn't figure out what.
posted by
word.smith
on July 2, 2005 at 9:11 AM
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John,
I just wish he'd write on his own time.
posted by
word.smith
on July 2, 2005 at 9:08 AM
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Ideas and dreams
Some of my best material comes at 3 am. I keep the notebook or paper and pencil by the bed, so I can dither it down and return to my soft pillow. I can never go back to sleep til I do
posted by
stpwriter1
on July 2, 2005 at 9:03 AM
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Mystic,
I just had to beg my way on to the computer. I do want to write, but I don't to kill his interest. Ah, between a rock and a hard place, I am.
posted by
word.smith
on July 2, 2005 at 8:35 AM
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I can't tell you how many times I've had an amazing idea....
didn't write it down, and by the time I got home or to my computer, it had gone out of the window of my mind. And I don't learn.... I guess, when we don't use the ideas, someone else picks them up. Ever noticed that someone else came up with the same idea you had - and didn't do anything about?
posted by
Wordwizard
on July 2, 2005 at 8:06 AM
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word.smith, I liked your son's post better than yours. LOL I'm just not much into dreams or writing about dreams or reading or interpreting them, etc.
posted by
TAPS.
on July 2, 2005 at 6:28 AM
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word
Your son is an obvious Pulitzer prize winner.
posted by
johnmacnab
on July 2, 2005 at 4:53 AM
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give that boy a journalism degree
posted by
MysticGmekeepr
on July 1, 2005 at 12:34 PM
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Tweeter
Not many people think to write down their dreams. I know I don't and this is the second time that I can remember having a dream that related to something that happened to me the very next day.
It must be very interesting though to actually write them down and be able to see similar events unfold.
Glad to be of inspiration for that blog. I'll check out the poem.
posted by
word.smith
on July 1, 2005 at 11:12 AM
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Word
Hey, I write down almost all of my dreams, and have for years, usually the second I wake up, so its fresh. This is a topic very close to me, I have an excellent guide book for the things I dont quite understand,but after doing this for so many years I am very capable of decifering most even the dreams of others as well. Please read my poetry post "White Wolf" It was written from a dream state.
There are sooooo many different aspects and types of dreams, some are visions, or a warning to pay attention to something that you might miss if the dream didn't que you (like yours). Sometimes they are guidence from highers ups trying to clue us in on dicision making, and sometimes they can even pertain to someone elses life, usually someone you are tight with, but not always.
Sometimes when I read past dreams I have written about, it is almost erie, I have actually experienced or been a part of those happenings. You should really pay close attention to dreams, (understanding when to weed out the ones related to stress.) Try writing them down even if it's only the real vivid ones, then go back months, weeks, even years, see if you are not shocked by the events being the same.
And now thanks to you I have a fabulous topic for my next blog.
Wendy
posted by
Tweeter65
on July 1, 2005 at 8:43 AM
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Hey Dr-Bob,
Thanks for the visit. It's kind of cloudy here today, which isn't bad. It was really hot yesterday. Summer is definitely here. Very few people here harness solar power. I think the utility company does to some extent and the owners of solar water heaters. It's a shame that in a country that gets as much sun as we do, that we don't use more solar energy. We do have a Radio Shack here. I will go check out the site. I have to let my son use the pc, otherwise I'd be in no ends of trouble. He'd only whine until I got up anyway. I got a pc fixed up for him. I now only need a sound card and a hub to connect it to the net, so I'll soon be able to use my own stuff as and when I please.
posted by
word.smith
on July 1, 2005 at 8:24 AM
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NCWriter
It's cool, so long as he doesn't get too close for too long when it's my turn at the keyboard. : )
posted by
word.smith
on July 1, 2005 at 8:10 AM
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Mmm-w
We never know what disasters can be averted if we just take the time to analyze those dreams. I have a budding blogger. I wouldn't be surprized if in another few years he wants to blog too.
posted by
word.smith
on July 1, 2005 at 8:08 AM
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Hey Wordsmith
Hello from Connecticut. I agree with your idea of a notebook and I think its a good practise both for night dreams and day dreams. SOLAR POWER is waht I would do for electricity in your area. You dont need a massive installation and can easily power things like radios and fans . Solar power is your power and if it became the norm in your neighborhood you wouldn't have them coming to your house. Theres lots about the subject on line. Do you have something like a RADIO SHACK where you are?? They probably have a catalog service that carries solar power stuff if in fact they dont outright carry it themselves. Go to www.ccrane.com and look at the radios and how they can be used with solar power. Interesting stuff. My Godmother used to take me to her husbands publishing house and let me play on the electric typewriter. It was a strange sense of empowerment even if i didnt understand that it was a language transcription tool. How nice of you to let your son have his first taste of being published. Warm and humid here today. Warm is good but humid is not. Have an iree day!!
Dr Bob
posted by
Dr-Bob
on July 1, 2005 at 7:48 AM
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he's brilliant!
Cool post! I love when stuff like that happens!
posted by
NCwriter
on July 1, 2005 at 6:35 AM
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he is amazing!!! what a post!!!!:)
i agree, as i have grown older, i believe whole heartedly that we are meant to maintain our dreams, atleast details of them... (sometimes they are just too off the wall)
posted by
mmm-w
on June 30, 2005 at 8:10 PM
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TF,
If I had the money, I'd probably get me a generator too. That'd teach them. Still, those are for people who know what they're doing. After the hurricane in September, a few houses burned down - one with someone in it - and two people were killed (inhalation of deadly gases) because of generators that were not properly serviced and/or used.
Someday soon, the little one's pressing at the keyboard will make sense.
posted by
word.smith
on June 30, 2005 at 8:00 PM
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I can't remeber my dreams except for a few and then after a while I forget them too. I have a friend and they shut his power off. He went and bought a generator. He still hasn't turned his electricity back on. I think that he's teaching them a lesson. He shut them off. Your son sure has a lot to say.
posted by
ThomasFranklin
on June 30, 2005 at 7:55 PM
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David, his idea of computer time when he's not playing games
is "Mommy, can I print some words?" I'd say imitation is the sincerest form of whatever, but holding down the keys till they yell, doesn't cut it. I had a check of a time making his 'writing' fit in here w/o widening the page too much.
I don't ever carry a tape recorder except for meetings, but it is a thought!
posted by
word.smith
on June 30, 2005 at 6:51 PM
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Oops, I was trying so hard to be funny I forgot to add this
I used to carry a tape recorder because I always seem to get "inspired" at the wrong times. I wonder if others do that too!
posted by
David1Spirit
on June 30, 2005 at 6:45 PM
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A chip off the old block huh?
He has his spacing down pretty good, and he is saying a lot in a few short paragraphs. Very good start!
posted by
David1Spirit
on June 30, 2005 at 6:44 PM
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