7 Works of Art Inspired by Dreams
Dreams are amazing in so many ways. They provide guidance on your health, relationships, career, and your spiritual path. They can be prophetic and profound. But dreams can also be…
a conduit for creative inspiration.
Artists, musicians, writers, scientists, and saints have gotten direct downloads from Source in their dreams. Here are 7 of my favorite dream inspired masterpieces….
#1 Frankenstein (Mary Shelley , 1818)
“My imagination, unbidden, possessed and guided me... I saw the pale student of unhallowed arts kneeling beside the thing he had put together. I saw the hideous phantasm of a man stretched out, and then, on the working of some powerful engine, show signs of life, and stir with an uneasy, half-vital motion.”
#2 The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Robert Louis Stevenson , 1886)
“For two days I went about racking my brains for a plot of any sort; and on the second night I dreamed the scene at the window, and a scene afterward split in two, in which Hyde, pursued for some crime, took the powder and underwent the change in the presence of his pursuers..”
#3 Misery (Stephen King , 1987)
“Like the ideas for some of my other novels, that came to me in a dream. I fell asleep on the plane and dreamt about a woman who held a writer prisoner and killed him, skinned him, fed the remains to her pig and bound his novel in human skin. His skin, the writer's skin. I said to myself, 'I have to write this story.' ”
#4 Yesterday (Paul McCartney , 1965)
“I went to sleep one night and dreamed a tune. When I woke up, I go I love that tune–it’s great.” Once he was awake and realized he had something special in mind, he “kind of fell out of bed and the piano was right here to the left of my bed and I just sort of thought well I’ll try and work out how this song goes.””
#5 Every Breath You Take (Sting, 1983)
“I woke up in the middle of the night with that line in my head.” Sting sat at the piano and had it written within a half hour. “The tune itself is generic, an aggregate of hundreds of others, but the words are interesting. It sounds like a comforting love song. I didn’t realize at the time how sinister it is.”
#6 The Terminator (James Cameron, 1984)
In 1981, while on a trip to Rome, Cameron was ill. Cooped up in a hotel, Cameron experienced a fever dream with some terrifying imagery that immediately made a strong impression. "It was the image of a chrome skeleton emerging from a fire.” As soon as he woke up, Cameron began sketching out a concept drawing based on the dream.
#7 It Follows (David Robert Mitchell, 2014)
"The basic idea came from a recurring nightmare that I had when I was a kid in which I was followed by a monster that looked like different people. And only I could see it. And it was very slow and it was always walking toward me."
Do you believe these inspirational dreams are simply our subconscious mind randomly riffing? Or are they perhaps creative threads originating in the spirit dimension that are floating around that anyone might snag in their dreams? Or are they specific gifts from our higher self, something that is on our individual life path to create?
As an author and game developer, I’ve definitely had story ideas that started as a dream, and those always feel like such a rare and special gift when they happen. So if you need inspiration, look to your dreams. You can even ask for an idea to come to you that way. See what happens!
