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Guys, I had this cool dream. There was this internet site where we described conventions and patterns in TV shows, and we were describing how many shows were based on a dream. Dreams are weird and surreal, which usually makes them interesting. Your subconscious can come up with some unusual or even bizarre imagery, scenarios and concepts when left to its own devices. So it's not surprising that writers, artists, and other creative types sometimes use their dreams as inspiration for their work. Works based on dreams can be a bit trippy if the dream logic is retained. They also have a tendency to be horror... or occasionally Wish-Fulfillment. Compare Dreaming the Truth, in which the dreamer subconsciously connects the dots and figures out the solution to a problem. See also Author Phobia, which can overlap with this when writers derive inspiration from their own nightmares. The more general film theory term for a creative work being dreamlike is "oeneric". Art films and experimental films may have oeneric sequences. Sub-Trope to Inspiration for the Work. |
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Teppei of Time Paradox Ghostwriter has what he assumes to be a dream of reading manga from ten years in the future, which he bases his first successful oneshot on. It's only weeks later, after the oneshot has been published, that Teppei discovers That Was Not a Dream, he actually plagiarized a story someone else will write in the future. | |
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The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl: Robert Rodriguez created the film based on the dreams and ideas of his son Racer. The entire project was dedicated to his son. | |
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Adventure Time: In the episode "Fionna and Cake and Fionna", when asked where he gets the ideas for his Fionna and Cake fanfics, Ice King says "they're beamed into my melon at night, same as everybody else". However, it's subverted at the end when it turns out they're literally being projected into his mind by a mysterious energy beam while he sleeps. | |
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In the Post-Crisis Superman story "Panic in the Sky", Brainiac built his skull-ship, resembling the one from Pre-Crisis minus the tentacles. He claims the design came to him "in a dream". At the time, it was believed that it was from a subconscious memory of his pre-Crisis incarnation. Post-Birthright/Pre-New 52 stories reveal that that Brainiac was just one of his probes who recalls the original Brainiac's actual skull-ship. | |
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One Far Side comic showed a boy using a "monster snorkel" to breathe comfortably while hiding under the covers of his bed from a pair of monsters, including a bidepal wolf with pure white eyes. This monster was taken from a vividly-described childhood nightmare that Gary Larson's brother had. In The Prehistory of the Far Side, Gary speculates that this dream stuck with him far more than it did with his brother. | |
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Clive Barker's The Hellbound Heart was inspired by a dream. | |
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Mary Shelley got the idea for Frankenstein from a nightmare she experienced during sleep paralysis: | |
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Jimmy Neutron Happy Family Happy Hour, an infamous animated short, was apparently based on a dream (according to the YouTube description) by seinfeldspitstain. | |
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Meredith Ann Pierce has stated that The Darkangel Trilogy was spawned from a dream involving "vampires on the moon". | |
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Wes Craven's New Nightmare: Wes Craven explains to Heather Langenkamp that he is plagued by horrible nightmares of the Entity trying to break into the real world as Freddy Krueger. He writes the script for the movie, which somehow gives shape to reality itself, based on these dreams. | |
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Eighty-six (2012) was based off of a dream Sumi (the creator) had back in 2008. | |
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Rachel Sermanni derives most of her more narrative songs from dreams. But really, how else did you expect a song about a cursed chocolate bar to come about? | |
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The Flash: When Barry Allen met the Golden Age Flash for the first time, it was explained that in the former's world, the writers of those comics saw Jay Garrick adventures in their dreams and turned them into comics, explaining how Barry could have read those stories and been inspired to use the name himself (as stated in his debut comic). | |
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The Incal was first thought of when Alejandro Jodorowsky dreamt he was floating in space between two pyramids. | |
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Alien's creatures are the work of H. R. Giger. Creatures he took from his nightmares.note Giger is possibly the most widely-known victim of night terrors. | |
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Diamonds Are Forever. Albert R. Broccoli had a dream where he went visiting his friend Howard Hughes and an impostor was there instead. This inspired the Evil Plan where Blofeld secretly abducts a Howard Hughes Homage so he can take over his empire. | |
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"La Villa Strangiato" was inspired by a complex dream Rush guitarist Alex Lifeson had. | |
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In the SCP Foundation, author Faminepulse based SCP-1782 ("Tabula Rasa") on a dream he had, which goes to explain the Mind Screw behind its concept. | |
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In Supernatural, the whole Supernatural books series is based on one guy's dreams. They turn out to be visions sent by angels because he's a prophet. | |
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Tiffany and Corey was inspired by dreams creator Max West had about being accompanied everywhere as a little boy by a beautiful woman in a dress and high heels. | |
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It's sometimes said that Dracula was inspired by an Acid Reflux Nightmare, although The Other Wiki fails to confirm this. | |
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Laurie Halse Anderson stated in an interview that the idea of her book Speak came from a nightmare she had. | |
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My Singing Monsters features the Dreamythicals, monsters formed by the dreams of the Mythical monsters and Cataliszt, which coughs up hairballs infused with dream energy which bring the Mythical monsters' dreams to life. | |
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Lunarosse has a double example. Both Isabelle's sidequest and the game as a whole were based off of dreams the creator had. The sidequest one is much more a case of Real Dreams are Weirder. | |
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The Portrait of a Large Pile of Ash from The Parselmouth of Gryffindor… and Luna Lovegood's dream at that. Since it's a magical, talking portrait, the result is an extreme Cloudcuckoolander, not only in appearance but also in behavior. | |
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2000 AD: The "Dreams of Deadworld" four-partner is based on a nightmare that the artist had of the Dark Judges, a group of hideously evil undead executioners. | |
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These Words Are True and Faithful: The passage describing the faith-healing ceremony was based on a dream. The dialog in the "Pastor Mandeville is for sale to the highest bidder" passage came verbatim from a dream. | |
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Tempest is based on a recurring nightmare designer Dave Theurer had of monsters crawling up out of a hole. | |
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Aqua Rhapsody's original concept came from a dream the developer had, but the final product ended up having some key differences. | |
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Pencil Whipped, a weird 2001 game whose graphics resemble pencil drawings, is based on a bad dream from its designer, Lonnie Flickinger, who is then the sole graphics developer of Chiselbrain Software. | |
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LSD: Dream Emulator is based on a developer's dream diary. | |
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My Inner Life was reportedly based on dreams the author had every night where she was Link's wife and had kids with him. | |
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The Na'vi from Avatar, another Cameron film, were partially inspired by a dream his mother had about a tall blue woman. It seems to run in the family. | |
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Sinister: The general premise, along with "Family Hanging Out '11", was based on a nightmare C. Robert Cargill had after watching Gore Verbinski's version of The Ring. | |
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Flame, from Walter Farley's The Black Stallion books, was inspired by a dream the author had under anaesthetic. Within the novel, it becomes the dream of Steve, the young man who eventually finds and tames Flame. | |
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It Follows was inspired by a recurring nightmare the director had as a child about being constantly followed by some unknown entity. The passed-on-through-sex bit was added later as he fleshed out the story idea. | |
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Sparklehorse's first album was named after the plot summary of a dream the frontman once had - the album in question was titled Vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot, and the dream involved Robert E. Lee using a primitive submarine in The American Civil War. | |
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The Rolling Stones: Keith Richards got the guitar riff for "(Can't Get No) Satisfaction" in a dream. He woke up, turned on a tape recorder, and played the riff before falling asleep again - the tape would later have about forty seconds of guitar and an hour of his snoring. | |
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In the first Gabriel Knight game, Gabe's father was said to have got the inspiration for his creepy paintings from his dreams. | |
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In Dishonored, Piero mentions the design for the player's mask came to him in a dream. It's mentioned that the Outsider is particularly fond of inspiring people in dreams. | |
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Hypnagogia and its sequel Boundless Dreams are made up of several dream worlds based on the creator's various dreams. The original comes with a text file explaining the inspiration for each world, while the sequel has the explanations in the optional Dream Hub unlocked after beating the game, along with passages from the creator's dream journal. | |
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The title character of Eugenius! writes a superhero comic based on his dreams. He later finds out he's dreaming true events that are happening in space. | |
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Bob's Burgers: In "Running on a Gene", Gene has a dream where he writes the perfect song, but can't remember it afterwards. After some practice, he manages to recreate the dream and write it down, but when he performs it for the family, their response is disappointing. Later, however, Gene writes a much better song based on the experience. | |
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Cow and Chicken's Red Guy came to David Feiss in a dream, complete with the "Hello, it's me" introduction catchphrase. | |
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Deltarune was inspired by a fever dream Toby Fox had, before the creation of Undertale, about a retro game with an emotional ending; after a failed attempt to turn this into a game, he created Undertale, and then decided to fuse it with his dream, creating Deltarune. | |
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Elvis Costello's "Are You Straight or Are You Blind" was inspired by a dream he had of a doll being pulled apart. ("She's the kind of doll that you'd like to pull to pieces.") | |
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In Futurama, this is how Professor Farnsworth gets the ideas for his inventions. "It came to me in a dream, and then I forgot it in another dream." Later, his clone Cubert learns how to fix the spaceship's engines the same way. | |
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Lisa McMann's The Wake Trilogy was inspired by a dream she had of entering her husband's dreams. | |
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The original Five Nights at Freddy's features a mechanic where if an animatronic has already sneaked into the office, the door/light switches will no longer work (as that animatronic has disconnected them). The game's developer, Scott Cawthon, says this idea came to him in a nightmare he had about Bonnie chasing him and doing that very thing. | |
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Better Than Ezra got the name of their 2005 album Before The Robots from a dream then drummer Travis MacNabb had. In the dream, Before The Robots was the name of a British buzz band Travis saw in concert. The following day, he asked Kevin Griffin and Tom Drummond if there was such a band. There wasn't, but in June there was a Better Than Ezra album by that name. | |
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Hottie 3 The Best Fanfic In The World is based on the author's dreams and daydreams. The author must get really bored. | |
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Garth Marenghi says that when he was making Garth Marenghis Darkplace, he often based the stories on his dreams... when he wasn't stealing from dead authors whose copyright had lapsed. | |
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In one of the infamous "Bill Brasky" skits on Saturday Night Live they claim Gene Roddenberry got the idea for Star Trek: The Original Series from listening to Bill Brasky talk in his sleep. | |
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Aqua Regia was based on a nightmare of the author, in which the military junta comes back to Argentina. | |
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Son of Rambow: The meat of the story begins when Will, a Plymouth Brethren boy who's never seen a movie before for religious reasons, winds up seeing First Blood of all things as his first ever film. This, together with his already fertile imagination, results in a dark and wild dream where he is John Rambo's musclebound son, who must brave jungle terrain and dodge fire from a plane/dog hybrid to rescue his father from the clutches of an evil scarecrow. As it happens, his newfound friend wants to make a home movie for a nationwide contest, and this dream becomes the plot of their eponymous project. | |
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Similarly, the video to the Foo Fighters' "Monkey Wrench" came to Dave Grohl in a dream. | |
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Curt Kirkwood of Meat Puppets once had a childhood nightmare about a lamb eerily hovering around his backyard at night - thus, their song "You Love Me" contains the lyric "My lamb, hovering in the moonlight". | |
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Nightmare Beings, in which artist and blogger Jonathan Wojcik and five or more guest artists per year spend the time between the end of October and mid-January collecting and illustrating monsters from commenters' stories of actual nightmares they've experienced. Highlights include (all from the very first year of the feature, no less, in 2014) Phosphenes'◊ 'Chicken', Thulykos'◊ Bram, and Dustpan's◊ 'Jesus Christ'. | |
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The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask was stated to be based on the series director's dream of the moon falling and crashing on Earth. | |
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Gyossait is based off a recurring nightmare the creator had about an angel that lived atop a pyramid in the center of the earth. | |
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The oil in Lorenzo's Oil was partly inspired by a dream of Augusto Odone, whose son Lorenzo was saved by the medication. | |
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Vinny has stated that numerous Red Vox songs came to him in dreams, most notably "In the Garden". | |
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The Twilight Saga was reportedly based on a dream Stephenie Meyer had about a sparkling vampire lying in a meadow filled with flowers. | |
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Iron Maiden's bassist Steve Harris was inspired to write the band's hallmark song "The Number of the Beast" after a nightmare experienced after watching Damien: Omen II. | |
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Mr. Warburton said the beginning of Codename: Kids Next Door episode "Operation: H.O.S.P.I.T.A.L." where Bradley/Numbuh 6 was hit by a truck was from a dream he had. | |
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The creator of Appetite got the original idea for the comic from a dream she had where she was eating humans, including people she knew. | |
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The Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode "Bad Eggs" was based on a dream of writer Marti Noxon's. | |
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Roderick Thorp's 1979 novel Nothing Lasts Forever, which is the sequel to his 1966 novel The Detective, was based on a nightmare that involved a man trapped in a skyscraper being pursued by armed men after having seen The Towering Inferno. This novel would later serve as the inspiration for Die Hard. | |
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Ben Gunn and Pterisa of Dino Attack RPG were both born out of dreams which were later written into the story. | |
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The lyrics to the chorus of "The Killing Moon" by Echo & the Bunnymen came to frontman Ian McCulloch in a dream, and he awoke with the lyrics in his mind. He later said in an interview that it never happened before and hasn't happened since. | |
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In Goblins the horrible monster nicknamed Mr. Fingers is inspired by the author's childhood nightmare. | |
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The In Search of Dorothy books were based off David Anthony's dreams of Oz. | |
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The Runaway Guys: A bumper for the Colosseum 2022 charity event, in which Tom Fawkes fills in for Stephen for Morning Mario but "took a few liberties" by filming snowboarding tips instead of a Super Mario Maker level, was based on a dream Stephen had. | |
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I, Pet Goat II: The director, Louis Lefebvre, has stated in interviews that it is based on a vivid dream he once had, which he took to be prophetic. He supposedly spent 5 years working on recreating it, and paid for it completely out of his pocket, hiring friends instead of Hollywood people for the special effects and animation. He claims he tried to stay as true as possible to what he saw in the dream, making only minor changes. | |
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Taiko no Tatsujin. The song titled “3Q-4U-AC00� came up from the song creator’s dream, about a Taiko arcade machine becomes alive and communicate to him. | |
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Deltarune Salt Route is a Deltarune AU that originally came from a dream. | |
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How To With John Wilson: A man John meets came up with the idea for a double dog leash where two people can walk the same dog at once from a dream. He created this business in real life. Similarly, John dreams of a laundromat with stoves instead of washing machines, and he creates this business at the end of the episode. | |
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YU+ME: dream was based around a dream the author had. She dreamed of a lover that was so real and so perfect that when she woke up she actually mourned the loss of the girl. She wrote the story to portray that immense feeling to the reader. | |
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