Talk:The Dreamer
Story of a boy, who grows into a man, who has many vivid dreams. In his dreams, life flows smoothly, almost perfectly. In reality, he suffers many problems - with money, love, and so on. He frequently takes walks through scenic settings, especially pausing at the apex of a bridge to look down at the water below. On one occasion, as he looks down at the water, he slowly steps off, focusing down at water, falling down towards water he flies away, into his dreams.
Short story version: just his story, the dreamer, his personal development, his love life, his failures, his difficult life, his flight to freedom.
Longer version: short story as frame, and also incorporating many individual dream sequences. Dreams could form vision of brighter future.
notes: even the subjects of his dreams, e.g. the importance of love, could fail to help him in waking life. e.g. he could fall in love with someone, yet still choose to go away into his dream world.
he could struggle for ages with a lover who doesn’t fully appreciate him, then find happiness with e.g. a plainer lover who shares his dreams.
