Waking Up: 3 Stories that Blur the Lines of Reality

WAKING UP: 3 STORIES THAT BLUR THE LINES OF REALITY is a 8,word, literary mini- anthology by Marc Paoletti, award-winning author of SCORCH.
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I went with my parents to pay the 1st year's fee. I got scolded by my father a lot as I lacked a lot of documents' photocopies. After all of the scoldings, I was still calm yet in a panicking mode. We were told to wait outside as they had to count all the money they had received. That's when dad met a man he already knew, a new friend of his that none of us was aware of.

With him stood a girl. She was of short height, wore spectacle, was very well dressed with her bangs covering her forehead and her light brown eyes were on the screen of her phone. She was beautiful, but the thing I liked most about her was her nose piercing.

I mean I have seen a lot of girls wearing it but not many of them were able to pull it off as well as this girl could. The feeling I got after watching her was emptiness.

I felt nothing, after all, she was just a stranger, how could have I formed any kind of image of her in my mind? I was told to go and see whether the class was open now by my father, so I went to see but I checked the wrong room, gave out the wrong information and got scolded. At which the girl laughed a hidden laugh, just puffing out a loud breath out of her nose while a smirk was slapped on her face. That made me furious.

I was not sure of whom I will end up befriending but I was sure she won't be on the list.

I didn't like the attitude that she gave off, it made me furious. Then came the first day of college. The prose must reflect this. What you're suggesting is very easy. It is probably the way you're thinking about it that makes it seem complicated. A man wakes up goes to the bathroom, looks into the mirror and proceeds to brush his teeth. He kisses his wife and child goodbye and sets off work. At work he has a really bad day. He goes to pub and gets drunk.

Finally he has the courage to face his wife so he get into his car and drives home. On the way home he's not paying attention. He runs over a child on a crossing. During the collision the air bag is deployed. His lips and gums are damaged. He spits the blood out of his mouth.

The book that blurred the line between fiction and reality

He looks down the blood is not red, it's white. He finishes brushing his teeth, kisses his pregnant wife goodbye, and heads off to work. By clicking "Post Your Answer", you acknowledge that you have read our updated terms of service , privacy policy and cookie policy , and that your continued use of the website is subject to these policies. Questions Tags Users Badges Unanswered. How do I blur the line between dream and reality? Sara Costa 3, 2 5 Since it's Science Fantasy, how "realistic" is the "real world" to begin with?

Is your dream world shared by everyone? Does each person have their own dream world? Or is it a mix, with personal dream realms and a collective dream world? People can have very different "styles" of dreaming.

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The real world is as mundane as ours, storbror. The magical aspect of the plot exists only in dream space, which is another aspect of the reality. You can say it is a mix of personal dream realms and a collective dream world, Patsuan. I've seen tons movies and TV shows where a long sequence occurs and then suddenly the character wakes up.

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I saw a ST Voyager episode rerun last night that did exactly that. The trick is that the dream has to be self-consistent and believable enough so the reader doesn't know or at least, isn't certain that it's not real. It's impossible to prove that you're not dreaming or in somebody else's holographic simulation right now.

Hindus see this whole universe as a manifestation of Brahma dreaming.

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Peers Anthony's The Blue Adept series is all about two worlds like this. You're unable to make the dream less absurd? Make the reality less real. One thing that isn't clear to me is whether the characters are aware of the difference between dreaming and not dreaming. If they are aware of the difference, but you try to hide that from the reader, it's hard to get into deep point of view where the reader feels close to the POV character.

When you are dreaming, you're very rarely aware you are dreaming - some people even don't believe such thing as lucid dreams exists at all. When you are not dreaming, tell me, how often do you consciously, purposefully verbalize the thought of "I'm not dreaming"?

You are aware you are not dreaming, but this is normal, standard, you don't think about that. So - being aware is one thing, bringing it up is another. Don't "hide" it, just don't talk about it!