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Inspiration during the night

Let's discuss nightmares. Do you have them? What do you think is the reason you do? What's the scariest one you've ever had? (BCoFs)

Nightmares are vividly realistic, disturbing dreams that rattle you awake from a deep sleep. They often set your heart pounding from fear. Nightmares tend to occur most often during rapid eye movement (REM) sleep.

I had one recurrent nightmare in a period twelve years ago suffering from PTSD at the time. I can’t describe it but it’s a feeling I will recognize when I have it. It is very scary as in I can’t breath freely and I am suffocating. Luckily I don’t have that nightmare any more, so I tend to forget what it was all about. I did some research on dream interpretation in my years teaching psychology at the university. I learned to interact with my dreams and am able to actively do something in my dreams that will change the outcome. I like that idea for when I am having a nightmare; I can actually change what is happening to me, so I am more in control.

Prompt: What is inspiration to you? Aside from writing from prompts, is inspiration something you run into while reading or living your day-to-day life, or do you have a mystical attitude about it as if it comes from dreams or during a trance-like state?(BC)

Inspiration is something mystical to me. I cannot influence it and it is a flow I enter which I totally adore when it’s happening. It is not something I can stimulate from the outside. My Muse dictates when I am in the mood for writing. I have had a writer’s block for almost nine months, which was devastating. It totally disappeared when I hooked up with WdC. That’s why I am committed to this site. It changed my life for the better since June 1. It’s only been, what? 70 days? It is feeling like a life time.

Day SEVENTEEN "Give It 100!"