the imagist

You're not a story-dreamer; you're an image-dreamer. The morning after a vivid dream, what you have is a single frame: a yellow door, a bird on a powerline, a face turned three-quarters away. That's actually a powerful kind of dream-life — image-dreamers tend to be the people who use their nights as raw material later, in their work, in their conversations, in the way they describe the world. Almost every visual artist, designer, and good writer is some flavour of imagist. The thing to do is treat the image like the dream itself — don't reach for what came before or after it. Sketch it, photograph something that looks like it, write a single line. The image is the dream.