[[No Way Out]]

[kitsuneoni]

Fandom: Saiyuki
Title: No Way Out
Genre: Angst/Drama
Rating: Pg13
Pairings: 39, 58
Link: www.fanfiction.net/s/2013631/1/
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Now that this is the project I'm currently working on, I'd love to hear what you think of it.

Questions? Suggestions? Ideas?

[cesmith]

I really like your story No Way Out. I felt a little sad that it turned out to be a dream, but I loved the scene where Goku told Sanzo about it and Sanzo's reaction. I also like how it keeps flashing into Goku's mind as he looks at the others. The dream seems so intense, was it really just a dream, or a premonition? Look forward to more.

[kitsuneoni]

Any ideas or guesses as to what will happen?

I'm glad you found the dream intense, that's what I was trying to get across. Like how a nightmare still frightens you after you've woken up... ever had that?

[Me-Nuriko]

Just read your story and sent a review. I liked it. Terrible nightmare that. *shudder*

Yeah, I've had those when I was still scared half to death when I woke up.

[kitsuneoni]

Thanks for the review... Your guess actually is headed in the right direction...

Ever had a dream that changed how you felt about someone? Every time you look at them you have a flashback and you feel confused...?

[cesmith]

I haven't had a nightmare in years, but my earlier ones were usually more about places than people, or about choices I was going to make. The nightmare about the choice (actually 2 of them) helped me to change my mind about a career I was toying with.

[kitsuneoni]

I have nightmares more about people than places. It's the people that can make a place scary for me...

[Me-Nuriko]

Dreams that has changed how I felt about someone? Yes, dreams have made me getting crushes on people. Silly, isn't it?

[kanshu]

People in dreams usually represent a part of yourself. What's more important than the people is how you feel in the dream, what emotions come through.
For example, the feeling of betrayal that you describe in "No Way Out" might be closely related to the loss of an 'environment' that you considered 'secure' - or by feeling about something that happened in a way that you consider 'inappropriate'.
Dreams are fairly simple to interpret, most of the time.

[kitsuneoni]

Me-Nuriko said:

Dreams that has changed how I felt about someone? Yes, dreams have made me getting crushes on people. Silly, isn't it?

Not silly at all! That just recently happened to me, and when I saw the guy the day after I'd had the dream I kept thinking back to it and blushing. AND it made me look at them more closely than I normally would've.

Moose: Interpretation of dreams... Freud made a mess of that! Now he was a pervert. Anyway... I think you're right. Many times my dreams reflect emotions I've felt.

Sometimes however they seem like a reenaction of a fantasy novel. Those are fun! *g* I never want to wake up when I have a dream like that.

A dream that plagued me alot a couple of years ago was one where I was in a circular tower which had steps winding up the walls and a big hole all the way down the middle.

Every night I dreamt I was walking up and up and up and I *had* to get to the end, but I was just concentrating on walking, as if it was an ordeal I needed and had to get through.

I dreamt it for a whole week and was getting really sick of it. Then the next time I dreamt it I finally arrived at the top, and there was a white door, and I reached out to open it, happy but tired and curious and a little nervous.

As I opened it a bright light came out and I strained to see what was inside, what I'd been walking up the stairs for, but I slipt and fell down the hole... and woke up because I was falling out of bed. (I did fall, and hit my head. Mew ...)

I never dreamt it again.

Once I woke myself up because, as I was falling asleep, I had a nightmare and started running, as in actually moving my legs in bed. Lol!! It shocked me back awake.

[Me-Nuriko]

Oh, I wished you could have seen what was behind that door.

Dreams like fantasy novels. Yes, I have had dreams, both fantasylike and others, that have made me feel very, very happy, and not wanting to wake up. When I have had one of those dreams I can live on it for weeks after. The feeling of them makes me feel so light, and I can handle troubles so much easier.

[kitsuneoni]

I live on it for weeks too. When I'm half-asleep I call back the dream and "continue" the storyline. Sometimes because I'm falling asleep I end up dreaming about it again, but that doesn't work all the time.

[kanshu]

I get some inspiration out of dreams, too.

As for the motions, they can help you identify the problem/situation that currently bothers you.
But the mechanism also can backfire. Running up that tower was frustrating. It might have been a situation during that day, or a few days before, where you tried to do something and just couldn't get it done.
But then, you were frustrated because of your dream and that you couldn't reach the top. So the dream became the source of frustration. Once you managed to solve the situation in your dream, your subconsciousness moved on - no more nightmare.

I tend to have dreams of volcano disasters and evacuations going not as planned whenever a project of mine threatens to run out of time. The dominating feeling then is "Darned, why doesn't this go as planned" and "Why aren't they doing as they were told". Most of the time, I end up returning to the disater area and try to rescue whatever I can... But there's only so much you can do against lava.
Another dream I tend to have in that connection is one of a train that I just miss, and I know I should've gotten to it because all my preperations were right, and I arrived at the station in time, but it still left without me. The same basic feelings as before are involved, plus a big "What did I do wrong?" feeling.

[cesmith]

I haven't dreamt much in years. Maybe it's the fact I don't sleep much. Anyway, the last dream I remember was from about 10 years ago. I was in a building that looked oddly like my old High School, but was supposed to be my College. To this day I don't know why I was dreaming about College, because I had graduated 15 years before. Dreamt this dream several times, each time with a different fear. Getting lost in the building, it had mazes and hidden floors and elevators and inner corridors. Being late to class, they always overlapped, or I'd show up on the wrong day, or I'd go to the wrong room and have to search for the right room and get lost. The last one was when I had to take finals. That was the worst one. There were classes I'd never been to, but I had to take tests in, or the classes that I had gone to that had nothing to do with the class on the final, or not being able to find the room and arriving with only 10 minutes to do a 1 1/2 hour test. Symbolically it probably was just expressing how my life was at the time, but It was so bizzare.

[kitsuneoni]

A dream was the source of "Lividi" as well. "No Way Out" arose more from a mixture of dream-images and imagined-images