Writer's Block: Tossing and Turning

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[Error: unknown template qotd]Recently I dreamt (on two separate occasions -- but basically the same dream reprised -- that I'd murdered somebody and stupidly used this as the basis for a piece of published fiction, and in consequence was terrified of getting caught. (Normal people have nightmares about being pursued by mad axe-murderers: apparent my nightmare is that I might be the murderer...)

I tried keeping a dream-diary once. This demonstrated two things: first, that I dream every night (so far as I remember), often several times, and secondly that my past crops up a lot more in my dreams than I normally realise. My dreams are frequently of a remorselessly everyday nature rather than excursions into fantasy realms -- even the nightmares which constitute a high proportion of them -- which means that it is sometimes quite hard to be absolutely certain whether I actually did something dreadful or merely dreamed that I did.