Last night, like so many times before, I had a dream which contained profoundly important information for me. All dreams are a direct communication from the unconscious and are therefore important, but usually a bit of interpretation is required first. For me, and I’m sure many of you, occasionally the u conscious throws a bone in the form of a rather obvious message.

Many a person has been guided by a dream to impressive scientific clarity. Chemist August Kekule discovered the ring shape of benzene with guidance from a dream and Barthélemy Thimonnier invented the first functional sewing machine with the help of a dream. That one is kind of interesting, well they are all interesting to me, in that Thimonnier dreamed he had been sentenced to be stabbed to death and as he was being stabbed he noticed the spears used to carry out his sentence had holes with a tiny piece of string passed through them at the tip. Just like that he solved the riddle which had perplexed not just him but everyone for years.

My dream did not solve some scientific mystery or provide the necessary engineering insight to solve a mechanistic puzzle. probably because I am not working on such things, but I digress.

No my dream was of a nearly complete screenplay.

I woke up several times throughout the dream and thought this the screenplay for a movie, I must write it down. Which I did. It isn’t really in screenplay form yet mostly because I have never written a screenplay before and have no idea how to do so, but I did get the dream bits down and even came up with materials to fill in the gaps in the story and stitch the thing together (pardon the sewing pun, I couldn’t resist).

I find this whole thing a bit disturbing because I haven’t had such a compelling feeling of need to write associated with a dream before. Well not in this way. I write all of my dreams in a special journal and have done so for years but I don’t recall ever dreaming so complete a storyline before. Not in the, this would make a great movie sort of way anyhow.

Usually it’s more of a feeling of insight toward myself sort of a thing.

Another reason I find this disturbing is that, as all of you who have followed me on this journey know, I have many writing projects already cooking away and none of them are much closer to being complete yet.

So yay another writing project has bubbled to the surface and appears it will be distracting me from my other writing projects (I think I’m up to eight or nine now) which I really need to finish.

When I started this blog 15 months ago I had the simple goal of writing more and discovering if anyone would actually be interested in reading what I had to write. Now I find I am rapidly approaching 500 followers across multiple social media platforms (eternally grateful for all of you) and I have more writing projects not only planned but begun than I ever imagined possible and thinking I need to hire an agent and maybe some sort of writing coach to help keep me focused.

You know y’all could have warned me this could happen…..