Let me provide a bit of a preamble before I get to the actual premise because I think i it's important.
I had a dream the other night with a mysterious woman - unrecognizable to me when I woke up but it's been haunting me ever since. One of those dreams you wish you could go back to yet you have really no memory of the events that took place. It's a strange feeling but I'm sure we've all been there.
So, I've been thinking of a story revolving around this idea which I'm calling Dream Therapy.
The plot would be about a depressed man who undergoes dream therapy regularly. A weekly escape from his mundane life. During one of these sessions he dreams of a woman, and the story would be told through his dreams as well as his real life. She's perfect to him, and he longs for her when he's awake.
The therapist states that the dreams are not constructed in any way, and that everything he experiences, including the people in them is fictional. But somewhere along the way he realizes that the woman in his dreams is another patient undergoing the same therapy as him at the same time.
As for the conflict, that's where I'm struggling. The most rational would be the journey to find this woman, but that's kind of obvious and I wanted to stay away from that.
I had a dream the other night with a mysterious woman - unrecognizable to me when I woke up but it's been haunting me ever since. One of those dreams you wish you could go back to yet you have really no memory of the events that took place. It's a strange feeling but I'm sure we've all been there.
So, I've been thinking of a story revolving around this idea which I'm calling Dream Therapy.
The plot would be about a depressed man who undergoes dream therapy regularly. A weekly escape from his mundane life. During one of these sessions he dreams of a woman, and the story would be told through his dreams as well as his real life. She's perfect to him, and he longs for her when he's awake.
The therapist states that the dreams are not constructed in any way, and that everything he experiences, including the people in them is fictional. But somewhere along the way he realizes that the woman in his dreams is another patient undergoing the same therapy as him at the same time.
As for the conflict, that's where I'm struggling. The most rational would be the journey to find this woman, but that's kind of obvious and I wanted to stay away from that.