On stories and dreams

I have these words in my head, and I need to get them out. At the moment, I’m not sure how to do that. Reading quotes from Neil Gaiman always seems to help.

“Write your story as it needs to be written. Write it honestly and tell it as best you can. I’m not sure that there are any other rules. Not ones that matter.”
― Neil Gaiman

“People think dreams aren’t real just because they aren’t made of matter, of particles. Dreams are real. But they are made of viewpoints, of images, of memories and puns and lost hopes.”
― Neil Gaiman

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3 thoughts on “On stories and dreams

  1. “Write your story as it needs to be written. Write it honestly and tell it as best you can. I’m not sure that there are any other rules. Not ones that matter.”
    ― Neil Gaiman
    yes, yes, and yes. This is a fundamental truth that guides the universe.

    As for the other quote? It is beautiful, but I can’t go there today. Perhpas never, as Sunshine has begun studying some pretty heavy neuroscience and neurophysiology and philosophy, even to the point of reading some guy who argues that there is no “now”, because everything that we are “experiencing” actually occurred before we “experience” it. See, while it seems instantaneous to us, the brain DOES take time to process the input from our senses, so that guy is right. There is no now. Which cooks my noodle. And I just went somewhere I said I couldn’t go today, didn’t I?

    I love this about you. You make me think, and examine; your ideas challenge me. #thisiswhyiloveyou

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