Greetings all,
I love dreaming. I love learning about dreaming. And I aspire to be a master lucid dreamer (thanks, Lucas).
And so it is no surprise that I have an entire world (universe, really) dedicated to dreaming. In other words... it has an oneiric cobha.
Oneiric is a very rare word (except it was recently integrated into the name for the next version of Ubuntu, so it might become more common in future years, at least among geek circles) so I will not be surprised if you've never heard of it before. It basically means dream like or pertaining to dreams. Cool word, and it is pronounced oh-NAIR-ick.
Anyway, making an oneiric cobha is ridiculously hard. I mean, one of the most fundamental unique aspects of dreaming is the existence of false knowledge. Where you "know" that person is such and such or is going to do this or that and that you must do so and so because the whatchamacallit is going to do this and that. It isn't told you, it isn't even shown you. You just know.
And it changes all the time. Nothing is stable. Nothing is static. (Except when you have a static dreamworld, and those are simply awesome.)
How in the wide world of madness do you put something like that into a story? No idea. Don't ask me.
But I guess you'll have to, 'cause that's what this thread is about. Sort of.
It isn't about how to write about real dreams, but about worlds that are... like dreams. Whose cobha is oneiric.
So, I've got some ideas for my world, but I want to know what all your ideas are first before I go and spoil it all.
Anyway, yes, there are things one can learn from Inception to help you in developing oneiric cobha. But it isn't oneiric cobha... and it wouldn't really work too well as one.
I'm assuming the tricky part would be figuring out the underlying cobha. What holds the world together. That was the problem I had with my NaNo - I didn't take the time to figure out what was static and what could change about the world, and it made the book agonizing to write.
