August 8, 2008
Kathryn Smith Blogs on Dreams
Written by Jaunty Guest in Jaunty Guests
I’ve always had weird dreams. Bright, realistic technicolor dreams that freak me out more often than not.when I was younger I actually controlled them, prompting a friend to suggest I take part in a sleep study. I never did sign up for that study, and as I’ve gotten older, my dreams don’t need the ‘changing’ they once did. But, they’re still weird.
I once had a series of dreams about a serial killer that I still remember in vivid detail. I’ve dreamed that Freddy Krueger was my father. I’ve dreamed about blood and strawberries — yes, at the same time. And I’ve dreamed that I’ve killed people I love. Sometimes, it’s enough to make you want to stay awake. Of course, being the twisted sort that I am, I look forward to my dreams and all the bizarreness they bring with them. After all, we dream to work out the issues that plague us in the waking world, and sometimes our minds take all kinds of funky side trips to get us there.
These dreams formed the basis for my fascination with the dream realm and led to me writing BEFORE I WAKE, the first of my first contemporary series, The Nightmare Chronicles. In that series the heroine, Dawn is the half-human daughter of the God of Dreams. She’s as real in the dream realm as she is in this world and she can come and go between the two at will. She also sees some really freaky stuff!
Joining Dawn in all of this is Noah, a sexy lucid dreamer who draws the attention of a Night Terror bent on crossing over into the real world. This Terror doesn’t care who it hurts, and if it can destroy Dawn in the process of achieving it’s own goals, it will.
Sound a little dark and creepy? Well, it can be. It’s also got some moments that are funny and I hope a little touching.
So now that I’ve told you about my dreams, crazy as they are, I want to know about YOUR dreams. What’s the best/worst dream you’ve ever had? Have you ever had a dream where the meaning was so clear it was like the dream hit you over the head? Share! You never know, you just might provide me
with fodder for a new plot… 
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Shana Says:
Thanks for blogging with us, Kate! Lately my dreams are things like being afraid I forgot to feed the cat or worried that I missed an appointment. I’m too stressed right now to have creative dreams. You know how you go through times in your life when even sleep feels like work?
RobynDeHart Says:
I have bizarre dreams too. Once I dreamt I was wrestling a tornado (like swinging it over my head) and I’m terrified for tornados. But this wasn’t an ordinary one, this one, when you got close enough to see was made of letters and words, all whizzing around in a big cyclone of noise. I figured this was like a big metaphor that I was stressed about my writing.
Emily McKay Says:
My favorite dream ever I had a few months after my grandmother passed away. I dreamed I was on a train, one of the fancy old cars, with furniture. All three of the grandparents I’d lost were on the train with me. Somehow it was very reassuring.
Though I’ve had my share of creepy, strange dreams too,
Kathryn Smith Says:
Hey girls! Aren’t dreams neat? Emily, yours gave me goosebumps! I apologize for taking so long to get here — computer problems!
Michele Gardner Says:
Hi kathryn. I love this topic of dreams. Wow. Anyway, I try not to dream. The reason is because I dream actual events. My worst fear other than seeing a ghost is dreaming. My favourite dream is one to where it is a past life experience, its set in Medivel times Im in a castle my hair is long coin cold blonde with a blood wine red dress on like they wear, its costly looking with black embroidery around the edges, I have the feeling my parents lock me in this room that is my bedroom and Im looking out the window with one candle in it. Its a favourite dream because noone dies in it, and I dont see blood or dead people. Its my worst because its telling me that Im restless and Im still waiting for what people call a soulmate to put that candle out. The candle represents the inner me wiating. So I never understood it because Im married and have been with my husband for 19 years. Now I spoke with a physcic sister and she confirmed what I have thought all these years since the dream started. I wont tell though. But my one that I call a night mare is for 2 weeks I had a dream that my husband who was my boyfriend at the time cheated on me for two solid weeks I new what the girl looked like and how the events would unfold, when the time for the actual thing to occur I was in such a state of shock that I wasnt able to stop it from occuring. I met the girl before my husband had cheated and I dream all the time about events that will unfold but this one was so dead on that I froze.
mmhi Says:
Thank you