Harry Potter Vs. Twilight Article: My Dream

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posted by emilyroxx

So, I dreamed that I was on a bus, and my bus driver was none other than the hated teacher at my school. As in all of my other dreams, I didn’t find anything wrong with this, but I did feel like something was off. All of a sudden, the bus stops and she turns around and says, “Alright, I want everyone to tell me where the lord God told (what she probably sinabi was Moses, but I just looked it up right now to find out what the story was. Because I didn’t know anything about the 10 Commandments, the word ‘Moses’ sounded garbled. Things in my dream that I don’t know anything about are always blotted out, like in Slughorn’s memory in HP 6) Moses the 10 Commandments and name the eighth commandment. I won’t ilipat this bus until you do.”
Well of course I stood up and said, “You can’t do that. This is a public school. It says in the Constitution that there’s a separation between Church (or Temple, or Mosque) and state! Even though we aren’t on school grounds, so long as we remain on this bus, we’re on school property and you can’t make us discuss the bible or force your religion upon us.” (That is definitely something that I would say in real life.) All I remember after that part is that she got mad at me, because then the dream shifted.

It was my school still, but it was apparently during the Holocaust or something. This part’s kinda blurry, but I wasn’t ME in this dream, I was some other person my age. The weird part was, I KNEW that she wasn’t me. I just kind of sat back and let the other person take control. She was hiding in one of the supply cabinets because raiders would come into the school and steal everything. I knew what would happen if she didn’t get caught and didn’t get her little item that she was trying to hide stolen, and it was my job to make sure that she didn’t until I reached the part that I knew what was going to happen. Confusing, I know. That’s probably why I can’t remember anything past that little bit of the dream.

It then morphed back into my original dream. The bus had stopped in the middle of a forest on tuktok of what was probably a 30 foot high blow-up rock climbing wall. The only problem was, I wasn’t in the bus, I was on the ground. The teacher told me that if I hated the bible so much I should use that to climb up the rock climbing pader to the bus. My reply was also exactly something that I would say in real life: “That doesn’t even make any sense, not that I’m surprised. susunod to nothing that you religious-nuts say makes any sense at all.”
I did start to climb, though. I reached to grab the blow-up rocks when suddenly the teacher shouts that I need to sing the Alphabet backwards while doing it. Then the rocks changed into alphabet letters with faces and started pag-awit like the little letters at kendi Mountain in the first Charlie the Unicorn.
Then I woke up.

This might sound like a really irrelevant artikulo for this club, but it’s not. It actually has a lesson: dreams are random, strange, weird, and most of the time make horrible plot ideas. Just because something appears in a dream does not automatically make it good, nor does it mean that you should ever ilathala it. Cassie, Youknowit, just because sparkling Bampira appear in a dream does not mean that it makes sense or that it’s a good idea. Don’t use, “Oh, it was part of her dream” as an excuse for sparkling vampires.

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RavenclawRocks Um, this is a bit stupid to post. And I've got other things to say. *Not all stories based on dreams are bad. Heck, I dreamed up one myself and personally I think it's quite good. *It's obvious you made this up. Dreams fade within minutes of waking up and even if they don't, one can barely remeber enough detail. You put too much detail in. *Not meaning to be rude, but it sounds childish that you put Cassie and You-know-it in your article. Yeah, they like Twilight better than Harry Potter. Live with it. *Not ALL of Twilight came from Meyer's dream. Just the main theme. *You don't need to write alot of rubbish that nobody bothars their ass reading. *Well, yes Twilight fans CAN use an excuse for things. I use excuses for things I don't like in other books. And you can't blames the fans on this spot. Have fun charging up to Meyer's house and blaming her. *Meh, I didn't mean to write this much. I just want to add this article is terrible. Hope I didn't offend you.

emilyroxx What? That, offend me? Nah, how could anyone ever find that offensive? *cough* I didn't say that all stories based on dreams were bad. I said that MOST OF THE TIME they make bad story ideas. It's great if you had a dream that you think would make a good plot. I was saying that most dreams are very disjointed and confusing. Actually, most of my dreams do fade away and I can't remember them. That's the reason I wrote this one down. My dreams aren't usually this vivid. I remember what everything looked like, what I said, and what I thought. I've had a few dreams like this, where I can remember everything. "Yeah they like Twilight better than Harry Potter. Live with it." This is the Harry Potter vs. Twilight spot. The point is to DEBATE. If everyone "lived with it" as you put it, no one would ever debate anything on here, and that would be no fun. The reason I mentioned Cassie and Youknowit on here is that I recently read them saying that the reason that SM made the vampires sparkle is that she saw them in her dream. By the way they phrased it, it sounded like they thought that that was a perfectly reasonable reason for sparkling vampires, which it wasn't. Sparkling vampires came from her dream. See above. Well, you read it, didn't you? *Sigh* I'm fine with people using excuses for things as long as it's a REASONABLE excuse. I love it how you write "Hope I didn't offend you" after writing a paragraph (more or less) completely insulting me. Nice.

Lunalovely I agree 100%

alexthedog ^With who?

CheekyCheese @RavenclawRocks - If I got that response from someone, I'd be very offended. Even if you didn't like it you can't just say rude things like that.

Lunalovely with Emily

bri-marie [i]Don’t use, “Oh, it was part of her dream” as an excuse for sparkling vampires.[/i] Except that it [i]is[/i] an excuse... You're right. Smeyer didn't [i]have[/i] to include the sparkly vampires. She didn't [i]have[/i] to write down the dream she had at all. Then again, JK didn't [i]have[/i] to write down the idea that popped into [i]her[/i] head either. JK didn't [i]have[/i] to make Harry a boy, make Hogwarts in Scotland, kill Harry's parents, make Hagrid a half-giant, make Ron poor, make Hermione a know-it-all, make Severus have greasy hair, make Dumbledore over a hundred years old, make Harry and Ginny get together, kill Fred, make Voldemort nose-less, put Harry in Gryffindor, make James his father...

cassie-1-2-3 If I had known this was written for me, I would have read it sooner. Judging by the title, I figured it was a transcription of a dream you had about Harry Potter and/or Twilight, thus, I was uninterested. I accidentally clicked on it in the updates and saw my name, so I read it. Thank you for letting me know. Anyways, I don't recall saying all dreams make great novels. I know I never said all your dreams would make good novels. Meyer had a dream that she could write about, that does not mean that a random dream you had one night will also. Your dreams and Meyer's dreams are unrelated to each other. You said yourself that not all dreams make good plotlines, and I agree. Meyer's dream wasn't even a plotline. It was simply an initial spark of an idea of a plot line. Also, I do not believe that all dreams are random. Some are, but some are not. I've had vivid dreams that have helped me understand situations I was, at the moment, very confused about. When your sleeping, your bain is usually at rest and relaxed, allowing to think about certain ideas in the most unobstructed way. If it was anything your conscious mind takes notice of, you'll remember it when you wake and can use it. What I was saying about the sparkling was that it would have been strange of Meyer to be inspired by every part of the scene in her dream EXCEPT for the sparkling. I didn't say anything else.

youknowit101 Wow, I said even less than Cassie, but that's an interesting dream. You could probably write a good story about it too.

cassie-1-2-3 That is true. You could write about a girl who has to constantly defend her faith (or lack of faith, whatever you prefer). She must overcome an obstacle (climb a mountain) to get back to the place where she will not be ridiculed (school bus). Someone tries to make her journey more difficult than it has to be (making her recite the alphabet backwards), but she manages to turn her crux into a crutch (turning the mountain into the alphabet. There's also a nice play on words you can use). The Holocaust was probably intertwined in the dream because it was an event where so many people were killed simply because of their faith. If you're been bothered by outsiders criticizing your personal beliefs lately, than maybe your dream wasn't so random afterall.

youknowit101 Good story idea. Mary Shelley wrote a story after seeing Frankenstein in a dream. Did she have a bad "excuse" for making Frank the way he was? Stephen King writed books based on dreams too, you think he has poor excuses for plots? Dr. Jeckle and Mr. Hyde was seen in a dream too. It happens all the time. Dreams aren't "excuses", they're inspirations.

emilyroxx (That's actually a really good story idea! :) ) What I meant when I wrote that was that even though she saw that in her dream, she should have thought it through. If I were to write a story about the dream that I had, I would probably not include the dancing letters (if the story was meant to be believable) because it would be ridiculous. If I had a dream about vampire love, and the vampires sparkled in my dream, if I wrote a story about them I would leave out the sparkles because I would look at that and think, "That's ridiculous."

DracoLuver I don't think she got the sparkling idea in her dream. For her dream, she saw a young girl and boy in a bright meadow. The boy was telling the girl how they can't be together, and the girl was trying to convince him otherwise. That inspired her to write, so she wrote that scene first before building all the details

cassie-1-2-3 This is an excerpt from her website "I woke up (on that June 2nd) from a very vivid dream. In my dream, two people were having an intense conversation in a meadow in the woods. One of these people was just your average girl. The other person was fantastically beautiful, sparkly, and a vampire. They were discussing the difficulties inherent in the facts that A) they were falling in love with each other while B) the vampire was particularly attracted to the scent of her blood, and was having a difficult time restraining himself from killing her immediately. For what is essentially a transcript of my dream, please see Chapter 13 ("Confessions") of the book."