Inspirational dreams..

[Aegle]

Most of my inspiration is derived from ongoing dreams and nightmares I've been subjected to.
Last night I had a dream I was a drow/dark elf, and I was pillaging a village - of which had already, strategically ransacked! At least I was mounted -- and rode across the countryside and up mountain sides. ;D

The clarity and vividness of my dreams is truly overwhelming! Sometimes it's somewhat 'exhausting' to remain asleep in a dream state itself.

 

[Hëradïn]

I had a dream last night that I was telling one of my stories to my psych class... then it took a strange turn when I was suddenly flying over a desert. then I ate an apple and woke up.

 

[Meg the Healer]

My dreams of late have either been apoclyptical in nature or they've been about trying to access memories using lightning rods or floating orbs or something (they've been strange).

I try to write them down because I know that somehow it will make its way into my stories somehow.

I did sumbit one to the showcase - The Game - which was a recurring nightmare I had as a kid. It still needs some fleshing out, but everything else was exactly how I dreamt it. It was terrifying.....

 

[Aegle]

The majority of my dreams are Apocalyptic material. It's quite uncommon and obscure, if a night slips by without the euphoria of my subconscious elaborately terrorizing me. XD Frankly, I find it impressionable, as I remember those ongoing nightmares moreso than 'memories' of my past. o.o

 

[Misusscarlet]

I have random dreams. Really random. One night I'll be having an apocalyptic dream, where I find hundreds of dead mutilated bodies outside my apartment complex. I'll have a dream where I am now good buddies with the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. The dream I had last night was about spanish speaking aliens. (not to be confused with the border hoppers).

 

[Johnny Cosmo]

I have a lot of dreams about a zombie apocalypse, and other nightmarish things. I always prefer them to my nice dreams, because I wake up with an intense feeling, and they are more memorable.

 

[Emeria]

I'm glad I'm not the only one who has really intense dreams and stuff. I wonder if it's something more common amongst people who write, particularly those of us who are fantasy or science fiction writers...

 

[Xanados]

I don't dream. That's probably because I don't sleep, though. Interesting, isn't it? Actually, when I do dream they are usually about nuclear war and natural disasters. So that's fun.

 

[Dragonie]

Same here! Normally what I do is pick out certain elements from my dreams and incorporate them into my writing. Sometimes it works! Sometimes...it doesn't. Writing about something I've experienced in my dreams is kind of hard.

 

[Mistresselysia]

I have incredibly vivid dreams that bug me for days until I write them down - I then use these notes as the basis for my stories. I have even been known to dream in installments, where I dream the first half of a story one night then continue on with it the next. On one hand it's quite cool, but on the other it is a little creepy... I mean, what is going on in there?!

I also have a lot of zombiepocalypse (and, more recently, dinopocalypse) dreams, to the point where I now have my Zombie Apocalypse Survival Plan. Maybe that's why my subconscious swapped from Zombies to Dinosaurs... need a new strategy to deal with the Dinopocalypse