Is that the book where everyone’s teeth fall out? I remember a King book with that “sign ” and dreamed all mine fell out. I literally woke up and ran to a mirror! Lol
YES! I keep having dreams about the people in a book I’m reading now. It’s the first time I’ve had dreams about a book in a long time. Usually I have dreams from movies.
I’ll try to put The Scylding down after I finish reading it again, and I’ll try to read Endless Night. I don’t know how successful I’ll be. I keep rereading this one, and Dark Ages, and I can’t seem to get any others open while I’m thinking about these. :/
No, but when I was 14 I braided my hair into one long braid down my back, slept on a mat on the floor and tried eating only rice and tea, like the characters in The Good Earth. Pearl Buck was the first author that made such a big impression on me, and I still remember a line, “Meat is meat,” said by the mother as she retrieved a piece of meat someone had thrown in the dirt and returned it to the pot. It was the first time I “felt” the suffering and experience of the characters that much or lived their lives vicariously through reading.
Amazing experience of a book. Out of curiosity, have you read The Monkey King by Timothy Mo? I always think of these two books together; separated by close generations. Third world and First world.
@Kevin No, but you have me intrigued. I’m sure I might view The Good Earth differently if I read it now as an adult as compared to being an impressionable 14-year old.
all the time, even dreaming the ending or chapters ahead.. sometimes I’m even right in my outcome.. most times I’m not.. I mingle along with the characters in my dreams and travel all over the world.. the down side is when I’m reading a mystery and I’m the one being chased.. mostly it’s a very pleasant time.
Yep. And I mostly read mysteries, so they can be quite disturbing.
The dreams I had while reading World War Z were out of control. I woke up one morning convinced my roommates were zombies ???
Yup
Yes
Did you know that your dreams while sleeping on your left side are more likely to be craziest and disturbing?
Yes
Only if it’s a book about Johnny Depp or Jon Bon Jovi.
Yes
I did when I read Station Eleven and 11-22-63.
Uh, oh…I just picked up 11-22-63…
Very seldom …and I dream (or remember my dreams) all the time.
Yesss lol I was going to make the same question cause almost every time I read right before bed I dream about the characters I’m reading about haha
The Stand… I dreamed I was in Boulder Colorado. Kojak was mine.
Is that the book where everyone’s teeth fall out? I remember a King book with that “sign ” and dreamed all mine fell out. I literally woke up and ran to a mirror! Lol
All the time!
I dreamed about priests when reading The Exorcist
Yep. The book was It and I woke up practically screaming…
Yessss e
Yes, just recently I put down a Reacher before I finished at bedtime. Dreamt I was helping Reacher figure out what was going on.
YES! I keep having dreams about the people in a book I’m reading now. It’s the first time I’ve had dreams about a book in a long time. Usually I have dreams from movies.
Yup
Omg yes me
I had a nightmare when I read Endless Night by Richard Laymon. Awesome book!
I’ll try to put The Scylding down after I finish reading it again, and I’ll try to read Endless Night. I don’t know how successful I’ll be. I keep rereading this one, and Dark Ages, and I can’t seem to get any others open while I’m thinking about these. :/
Yes I do. All the time.
Yep , Henry Fielding’s Tom Jones
No, but when I was 14 I braided my hair into one long braid down my back, slept on a mat on the floor and tried eating only rice and tea, like the characters in The Good Earth. Pearl Buck was the first author that made such a big impression on me, and I still remember a line, “Meat is meat,” said by the mother as she retrieved a piece of meat someone had thrown in the dirt and returned it to the pot. It was the first time I “felt” the suffering and experience of the characters that much or lived their lives vicariously through reading.
Amazing experience of a book. Out of curiosity, have you read The Monkey King by Timothy Mo? I always think of these two books together; separated by close generations. Third world and First world.
@Kevin No, but you have me intrigued. I’m sure I might view The Good Earth differently if I read it now as an adult as compared to being an impressionable 14-year old.
Yessss
all the time, even dreaming the ending or chapters ahead.. sometimes I’m even right in my outcome.. most times I’m not.. I mingle along with the characters in my dreams and travel all over the world.. the down side is when I’m reading a mystery and I’m the one being chased.. mostly it’s a very pleasant time.
From time to time.
Yeah, sometimes… I remember when I finished the Infernal Devices trilogy, and I had dreamed about Jem for a couple days after it.
Yes, whenever I read before going to sleep. I find myself as the female character. In some of the books, that can be wild! ?
I do! I also dream of my characters I write.
All the time
sometimes. happens more often when I am writing. I live, eat and breathe my characters