Put all of your Mab dreams here!

[Arwen17]

Here's a great idea. Anytime you have a Mab-dream, put it here! It usually makes great fanfic or discussion!


ok I just had this seriously crazy mab-dream and I didn't remember it until hours after waking up.
Basically I thought I was watching an unofficial "cut scene" from the Merlin movie and I had to keep moving closer to the TV to try to make out what she was saying and kept rewinding/pausing it. You know kinda like some unofficial cut scenes that were never meant to be release to the public, it had crappy audio. Some unofficial material that escapes to the internet has zero audio.

She was fighting with two samurai swords LOL. I think I watched too much RWBY because she was in her normal battle dress, but using the swords to slice and throw magic at people like they do in RWBY. She wasn't doing any crazy flips like they do in RWBY, just swirling around a lot and slicing magical waves through the air lol. I'm not sure what she was fighting... maybe zombies or undead or evil magickal fairy beings or something. You know strong enough that she was having to put some effort into the fight, though she was powning them like a badass and hissing magic spell words or threats or something. Remember the bad audio? I couldn't hear it very well.
I think the zombies might have been an idea my brain got from the "Outsiders" in the Dresden Files where Winter Queen Mab is cruel, but utilmately the protector of the universe because she's the only one with the power to fight the Outsider demons.

So that's what happens when you fall asleep after reading Dresden Files Mab fanfiction and watching several episodes of the new season 3 RWBY.
It was a damned cool dream and I'm glad I was able to remember it. Too many good dreams slip away after you wake up and you never remember them. I'll have to think about this some more, but I could write a one-shot fanfic on it. I've written fanfics on stuff I've dreamed before.
And I found out that the Wicked Lovely author, Melissa Marr, she too dreams entire situations and puts them in her published books!


I usually try to write down dreams I enjoy, else I'll never remember them long-term. Looking thru my files I found this:
6/13/2013
queen mab dream
she's hiding around the corner of the porch. I don't think she's afraid of me or anything, she's just teasing. She knows I want to see her, so she's making it difficult. She allows me to walk down the steps and finally see her. I try to start up a conversation, I think with the ultimate goal of asking her to take me to faerie, but she vanishes before I can say much.

I also remember having a dream of the final battle between Merlin and Mab in the round table room. But then someone chucked a vase at someone's head and went down like a cartoon knockout and I laughed myself awake. I thought I wrote that dream down somewhere but can't find it at the moment, so that's the only detail I remember.


I'm a very lucid dreamer and this stuff seems 100% real until I wake up and realize its not. OR often I will wake up with no memory of having the dream at all, but then something hours or days later will trigger the memory. For example, I started watching more season 3 RWBY episodes and eventually the memory of having the mab dream suddenly came back to me.

I've had so many Regina dreams too. Meeting Lana in person didn't help lol. Now I just have more Lana-scenario dreams in addition to Regina dreams.

[sleepyqueenie]

People! Yaaay! Life to this forum!
Okay, on topic, Mab dreams. Yep, I quite often have those. When I have good dreams they are usually very adventureous, much running about and encountering whoever wants to show up in my dreams, beautiful building hideouts and some monsters.
My most frequent Mab dream is the one where there is a sequel to the film, deleted scenes or a retelling of it ("Mab the Movie"). I always enjoy watching this very much and feverishly try to remember all that happens/all of Mab's expressions for when I wake. I rarely succeed, it is very likely that I have some notes on such dreams in my piles of paper and story ideas.
I once had a dream that stuck with me in which Mab was sitting in the same room as me, we were talking, I remember looking down to see her wear fluffy socks. This is one of my great Questions about fae people: do they wear socks? This dream clearly told me that they can.
I like it that authors get ideas from dreams. Yes, some of these ideas/stories will be silly, but who cares, dreams create brilliant stories too. It would be a shame, as an author, not to use dreams when these colourful ideas fill your mind every night without you having to 'work for it'. I imagine dreams often solve story issues that authors have been worrying about all day.
Thank you for telling your dreams. What are your Regina-Lana dreams like?

[maellowyn]

Wish I'd be blessed that way... 😢
The only dreams I have, are more like me fully consious making up the stories. kind of day dreaming before falling asleep.