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Do you take Burroughs' advice and keep a notebook next to your bed?

>> No.6118802

Of course.

>> No.6118806

I didn't know he advised that but I've done it for years anyway.

>> No.6118808

i do actually

>> No.6118834

No, but I keep my phone next to my bed. That way I can take both notes and voice memos.

Far superior to that dead tree shit.

>> No.6118838

>>6118787
yes

I wish i had something smart to write in it

>> No.6118841

>>6118838

Know that feel

>> No.6118842

Both Burroughs and Gore Vidal would write when they found themselves close to dreamstate.

>> No.6118854

I have an iPad next to my bed instead.

>> No.6118863

>>6118842
but writing stuff down kills any interesting thought process

>> No.6118878

>>6118863
Soon we'll have brain activity recorders

>tfw uploading your dream on VRtube

>> No.6118880

>>6118863
Or perhaps the act of recording your thoughts allows you to more fully grasp them, which forces you to reevaluate the actual quality of your thought.

For if your statement were universally true, then there would never have been a single good book written that wasn't dictated.

>> No.6118885

>>6118880
>allows you to more fully grasp them,
more like force them into a formal structure

>> No.6118887

>>6118880
dictating interrupts thoughts as well

The mere act of formalising what you're writing, trying to grasp hold of thoughts that come and go like smoke, necessarily interrupts their natural flow. Obviously, sober, clear thinking is important at some point, but generally you want to get the inspiration behind the thought out whole before strangling it with self consciousness

>> No.6118900

>>6118885
>>6118887

Thing is though, only a "formalized" idea can be communicated intelligibly.

>> No.6118911

>>6118787

will do.

gib more burroughs advice pls

>> No.6118914

>>6118911
build yourself an Orgone energy accumulator if you got the junk sickness

>> No.6118922

>>6118842

i always fap when into that state. i dont know if im getting anything good out of it

>> No.6118936

>>6118911
he says you should also write in the notebook

>> No.6118946

>>6118936
>he says you should also write in the notebook

whoa, slow it down smartass

>> No.6118952
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6118952

Written quite a lot of ideas when was high.
Glad that did it, as most of them are really original.

>> No.6119878

for a dream diary? i kept one under my pillow but i'd never actually use it: it's too dark and i'm too lazy to turn on the lights. thought of keeping my voice recorder but i wouldn't transcribe it.
dreams are pretty boring when written down. only interesting when you're actually living them.

>> No.6120140

>>6118878
God I fucking hope not

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>>6118946

I do this
the other day I wrote:

my cocaine

still laughing my ass off

>> No.6120340
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6120340

>sleep
>have this really interesting fucking dream
>wake up
>immediately think "this could be turned into a great fucking book"
>later that night
>"what was that dream I had this morning?"
>it was about people shaking hands with each other in a bathroom but my brother refusing to shake my hand
>mfw

>> No.6120346

>>6118834
>he thinks the purpose of taking notes is to go over them later

>> No.6120423

>>6120340
pretty much