Dream Threads

"Rappel Upward on Dream Threads" by Joji

In a New Post on your own blog, try the following writing activity using the interesting sentences regarding dreams that you and your classmates came up with last week.  We'll call these sentences "dream threads," little bits that you've pulled from a bigger piece and that could be "woven" back together in interesting ways.

• Choose one of the sentences to begin your story.  You may use it word for word or alter it slightly if necessary.
• Choose another sentence to end your story.
• Fill in the space in between with a story connecting the two sentences. This will likely be fiction but it doesn't have to be.  It also doesn't need to be especially long and may only be a portion of a bigger, more complicated story--maybe 200 words or so--but it could be. It could also be a poem.
• Put the sentences you took from other people in bold or another color.
• Include at least one image.

Here's our list:

The unknown nature of it is almost frightening, and yet, exhilarating.

A dream that persuades my way of thinking

And wide-eyed I came upon the realization that would soon crash into
our Mother Earth.

I never want to wake up unless I'm having a dream I don't want to get back in to.

I don't ever want to wake up when I'm having a dream that I planned.

I feel like I've come close to controlling my dreams and my body while I sleep.

Those same sheets that express my restless nights

They both realize that they need to live in the real world.

Perhaps a blanket burrito is a Gen Z kid's modern dream catcher.

The thought is frightening to be alone in this but more tragic not to be.

I woke up to the sounds of bells and soft silk--something was seriously wrong.

Make a hole of pillows and cozy in.

When I dream I always lucid dream, which means my mind is never really at rest.

I like having two pillows and a blanket up to my neck.

A large metallic spider and spiky black caterpillars with stingers