You’ve woken up with an amazing story to tell, but everyone’s eyes are already glazing over. Here’s the fix
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s everyone knows – or ought to know – there is nothing as boring as listening to someone tell you about a dream they have had. This is a shame, as there is some good, out‑there content going begging. There could be gold in there, if only the dreamer knew how to deliver it. This is the problem: not the dreams themselves, but how bad we are at sharing them.
Keenly aware of the wondrous magic in some of my own dreams, and anxious for no one to miss out on hearing about them, I have been working on my dream-telling technique. And I’ve come up with some guidelines.
Or, rather, one guideline. There is only the one: you have to keep it brief.
