I had a very intriguing conversation about comic books which led me to question my lack of interest in them. I finally decided it must be because of my dreams.
I dream in storyboards. The scenes are sketched out, with just a hint of color shaded here and there. I can actually see the pencil/chalk lines (I guess my inner artist fancies pen & ink over paints). Occasionally, there will be a word or two on the page, usually to add emphasis. Overall, they remind me of architectural proposals or movie staging. Since I do the same thing to everything I read, the images in the comic book conflict with my own visuals. It’s like falling in love with a character in a book, and then totally hating the actor picked to play him in a movie because that’s not how you pictured him.
What about you? How do you dream? Do you dream in color? Does it look like a live action movie? Are you a participant, or a passive observer? Are people speaking your “first” or “primary” language? Does anyone else dream in storyboards? If so, how do you feel about comics?
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Hmm, that is interesting. I’ve never heard of anyone dreaming like that before. Have you spent a lot of waking hours working on storyboards, or is it just something your psyche chose at random?
Me, I dream fairly normally, though not very vividly, and usually it makes no goddamn sense whatsoever. Just the other night I was having one of those anxiety dreams about taking a Japanese final, where everything kept going wrong and I kept accidently writing things in English. There was some Japanese, but I suspect it was probably nonsense. That’s what you get for spending the hours before bed writing that final paper ^_^
Comment by Dahne — May 22, 2007 @ 4:35 pm