I’ve noticed that when I’m in a state of semi-sleep I’m able to make up stories. This isn’t like lucid dreaming – it’s more a hypnagogic state, or something. Hell, I dunno. What I find is that I start telling a story in my head and it’s always fucking great, the best thing ever written. I don’t so much see the action as see the words emerge. The trick seems to be to just let it happen, gently guiding but never trying to control it too much.
Of course when I wake up I forget the whole thing, which is an utter downer as they’re really good stories that I’m sure you’d all enjoy, but last night there was a phrase that was struck me as genius. It hung around, basking in its glory and impressing me so much that I forced myself to stop telling the story and wake up to write it down. Here it is:
“Simple presentation of what Anglicized countries mean.”
Y’see? Utter genius!
It’s utter something… ;-)
I’ve experienced the same thing but I was convinced I was writing wonderful song lyrics. If I tried to intervene in the process they seemed to stop being so great so like you I just let them flow. But of course in the cold light of day I have no doubt they would turn out to be gibberish although gibberish with a kind of weird skewed logic like what you just wrote.
On the h2 g2 site there is a related conversation of people recounting what they have heard people muttering in their sleep. Pretty funny:-
“he’s got a big cake and I don’t like it one bit. So make sure you trivy it. Don’t shout at it, you’ll hurt it.”
“My team will beat yours, because we’ve got shoes”
“Don’t get it wet, you’ll ruin it, and I’ve only got one”. Followed by “Germans, of course. No one else wears sausages”.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/F19585?thread=1156277
Haha. I used to give lectures to packed auditoriums in my dreamings and ocassionally I would wake myself up by the speaker, and they really were quite brilliant.