Has a dream ever placed you in the setting of a book you've read?

[dfault01]

I'm mostly talking about fantasy or science fiction here. I'm halfway through the series A Song of Ice and Fire, (no spoilers please if you have read it!) and last night I had a dream I was reading a different book in the same setting.. Given, reading a book in a dream is much much different than being placed inside its world, but it got me to thinking how great it would be to see and walk around fictional places like Westeros, notably King's Landing or another castle like Winterfell. While it's entirely possible to have natural, non-lucid dreams about video games or films, I'm not so sure about literature because of the obvious reason: while you are reading, the setting is created entirely by words on a page, and is never actually "seen," and therefore not experienced. Thoughts?

[Krinks]

I've had one like this. I was reading "Lucifer's Hammer" by Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle, about a comet striking the earth. I had read the chapters where the comet hits, and it was an amazingly vivid piece of writing. That night I dreamed that I was trapped in a huge traffic jam caused by people evacuating the cities. I couldn't move anywhere, but I got out of my car and saw the comet streaking across the sky. It was a huge white fireball. The dream was also amazingly vivid. I'm also currently reading a book called "Ares Express," by Ian McDonald. It is set on a Terraformed Mars and centers on the clans of people who operate huge trains on the Martian railroads. The writing really gets across the sheer size of the trains (the engines are more like small ocean liners, run by fusion reactors). ONe night, after reading in bed for a while, I fell asleep and dreamed of the massive trains.

[Puffin]

Now that you mention it, I've never been in a scene from a book, only from movies. [OT: 2,000 posts]

[McGinnis]

I haven't yet made the journey into the world of a book that I've read, but when I was reading A Song of Ice and Fire (don't worry, no spoilers) a certain famous (in the books) dragon appeared as a summoned pet of mine and I flew away on its back.

[Pegorian]

Actually, just last night I had a dream very similar to a scene from a book I finished a couple of weeks ago. It was a really great book too, so the dream was enjoyable, even though it wasn't lucid.