You'll be Sorry you Knew that Dreams Come True

[steepholm]

I've been having very vivid dreams recently, and while nothing could be more boring to relate to others, last night's was unsettling enough and I woke from it suddenly enough for me to want to record the end of it. The earlier parts involved missing children, dark woods and severed limbs, so let's not go there, but it ended far more spookily, with a chorus of ghostly infants singing me this eldritch music. I don't recognize the tune, but could well have dredged it up from somewhere - any ideas? I've always disliked 3/4 time for some reason, and I think my id knows this and chose to twit me with it. As for the lyrics, all I remember is the penultimate line: "And you'll be sorry you knew that dreams come true."

And with that I started awake.

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[steepholm.livejournal.com]

I don't usually remember tunes (a line or two of poetry is more common), but I woke from this one suddenly enough to be able to get it down before it was sucked back into the void.

The images are vivid, but alas I can't draw well at all.

[lamentables.livejournal.com]

But with imaginary drawing skills, you'd be able to reproduce the images?

I think that I can remember dream images, but when I try to look at them, they're more like feelings than visuals. I can't see how I'd begin to capture them with my imaginary skills.
It's a bit like my memory of my grandmother - that feels vivid and yet I can't actually picture her face. I remember smells, a few dresses, things she did, and mostly the way I felt about her.

Words and phrases do follow me out of dreams though.

[steepholm.livejournal.com]

With imaginary drawing skills, I'd be great!

But yes, I know what you mean about the visual not being the strongest element of these things. The emotional content can't be conveyed straightforwardly at all, though - I think you'd need to change other things in order to get it across in a narrative. Words can't take the same shortcuts that dreams and memories can.