The Dutch Ghost said:
Actually I had a couple of such dreams, and they did give me inspiration for ideas and stories.
Me too. In fact, in the last 2 weeks or so, dreams of this type came more often than usual.
Surf Solar said:
That's a pretty 'epic' dream, a powerful one definitely. Such dreams are rare, though. I rarely dream of cosmic things. But when I do, it is often in a way that I'm standing on some height, if you can say so of cosmos, a vantage point in a sense, and there is this amazing cosmic panorama before me. Pretty cool.
All right, here's something more.
As you might have read in one of my previous posts in this thread, I've recently had the pleasure of finishing a great body of H. P. Lovecraft's works (thank you, Surf Solar, for reminding me of this), and I was a bit struck by the way he imagined his Dreamlands.
What struck me most is that Lovecraft apparently made Dreamlands from his dreams, so to speak, that majority of those things he actually had dreams of, and that they're not simply made up. Thing is that the Dreamlands are a mapped land, like many imaginary world's in fantasy and sci-fi works etc.
So what struck me is that our mind, a mind of every person, creates their own "dreamland", a place which it occasionally visits. And this is not random talk, it is somewhat factual, if you can say that for something one's imaginative mind creates.
So I gave it a little thought, while lying awake in my bed during the night. Apparently, while I'm in that state, I can recall my dreams better that in any other situation, as opposed to, say, mornings, when I don't remember a thing about what I've had in my head minutes ago.
Anyway, I realized that I do, in fact, have my own "dreamland", a place which I often visit in my dreams. Not that often, actually, maybe twice a month (I plan to start making a record of this).
My dreamland is actually a distorted, perverted version of my hometown, to say at least. It is essentially a mixture of various towns, cities, villages I've visited, and random locations I've seen on many photographs and in motion pictures. This "town" has a consistency to it, which is the most amazing thing. Locations hardly ever change their places, it's just that new places, buildings, neighborhoods are added to previous ones, expanding an already vast, imaginary area, which is definitely far greater than my hometown.
I can almost clearly recall this city from my head, as if it is a real one. Furthermore, I'm pretty sure that many places from my childhood - places which exist no more - are present in my dream, and are some of the most essential elements of this imaginary city.
I'm actually planning on making a diverse map of this place, as far as it is possible, whilst trying not to make my "waking" imagination fill all the blanks and blind spots.
So, has anyone made a discovery of this sort (it is great discovery for me, to be honest), or was aware of such things a long time ago?