Dreams

Last night I had a long, complicated dream about Batman, a character who has stirred my imagination since my childhood. In fact, one of the carefully constructed fantasies I use to put myself to sleep involves a meeting between him and Jame in her post-series role as a quasi-divine inter-dimensional seeker-out of things that need to be destroyed (not BM himself, I hasten to add, although his butler Alfred doesn't trust her one bit, nor does Dr. Watson in another such fantasy).

What I almost never dream about, though, are my own imaginary world and characters. It's almost as if I spend so much time daydreaming that night gets short-shifted. That's frustrating when I think of the authors who claim to have gotten ideas in their sleep (Coleridge being the classic example with Xanadu, also being an example of the drawbacks). I wonder, though, how common they are. Other examples? Also, is anyone out there tuned in to the Kencyrath's dreamscape, as it were? If so, how do I get there?

Nonetheless, I'm about half way through the next novel and currently am turning back to Tori's past. I've already covered his reception in the Southern Host as a teenager (not warm) and his first clash with Genjar (very chilly). What else would you like to see?