A Look into my Mind, or, where my story ideas come from · 2:39am Dec 24th, 2021
A lot of people - both on this site and on the other sites I post stories to - have asked where I get the ideas for my stories from, especially the crossovers...because the ideas seem so odd yet work so well when I write them. After a weird dream I had this morning, I think I can demonstrate just how odd it would be to try to explain it...so I thought I'd summarize it here to the best of my ability.
It started with the Enterprise D orbiting around a red planet that had an atmosphere somewhere between toxic and nonexistent, and yet still had civilization there. Apparently, they were trying to figure out how to restore the atmosphere, but couldn't manage to get it to work. Then one kid - who, apparently, was the main character in this 3rd-person perspective dream - figured out how to make it work. They presented their findings, and none of Star Fleet could make sense of how the conclusions were reached, but "The math checks out". That was a repeated statement.
Then came the how.
It started with going to an 8-bit Pokemon arcade cabinet that was so old the cabinet itself looked like it was in black-and-white and taking a coin and ticket in and out of the slot in a specific pattern that the cabinet read as a binary code, which resulted in spawning Missingo. Capturing Missingo caused a reality shift that made specters inside the 'imperial palace' on the red planet visible and tangible, allowing them to be exorcised...by setting fires throughout the palace in key locations. Exorcising the spirits woke the populace, leading to the kid who is doing all this being declared Emperor, and being granted a particular sacred relic...which they then had to run by hand - for some reason - up Escher-style staircases to the palace peak and install it in something that was half technological and half artifact, somehow.
This turned the entire palace into a seismic beacon that caused every volcano on the planet to erupt simultaneously while directing all the lava flow into the royal courtyard...which looked like my Mom's backyard-pool, for some reason. Preparations for this involved turning all plant material in the courtyard into barricades and longbows. This somehow resulted in the lava not being able to damage the palace, and instead triggering a cryogenic bomb that created a massive windstorm that covered the globe, blanketing it in snow and stabilizing the atmosphere.
The rest of the dream involved the new Emperor trying to get the populace to be more positive about life and stop treating them like terror incarnate for some reason...because apparently that behavior with the last Emperor is what created the toxic/nonexistent atmosphere in the first place.
...I have no idea what I ate, drank, or did last night to have such an odd dream. Just thought I'd put it out there for people to see.
Wow.
I can't claim any of my own dreams can be that complex. The one I had last night boiled down to "watching an animated rendition of a baseball game on a college rooftop while one of One Piece's ending themes played in the background".
This actually reminds me of a dream I had. Many of my dreams are absurdly detailed and consistent, like one I had where my house was under siege and the amount of rounds left in my magazine was consistent with how many I had fired, I recognized the tactical error of using an M9A3 (which has tritium sights) under a stationary porch light when fighting enemies who are in the dark, and the tactical error of letting an enemy get within two arms lengths when holding him at gunpoint, all within the dream. There's also a dream where I was in sort of an infinite train that could go anywhere, like underwater and to the African Savannah, and I always wanted one more adventure, but the friends I was with eventually left, leaving me alone and afraid on the infinite train.
Then there was the one that I bothered to type and reasonably format into a GDoc, that I can copy-paste instead of summarizing or transcribing from my notebook.
The dream started with me driving an SUV down the road after dark, as I passed some guy on a red motorcycle. I turned around several miles down the road, and when I passed him again, he flagged me down. I stopped to listen to him, when he told me he was sorry for what he had to do. He then hopped onto his bike and it transformed into some kind of death robot, very live-action transformers-esque.
He tried to kill me, so I started fighting him, and was doing pretty good. At some point some lady wearing a suit and mask to completely cover her identity takes over, wins the fight, and gets me home.
Well, we get to my house and she reveals that she is a friend of mine. If I remember correctly, she actually looked like my cousin. In the dream, we had a lot of friends in common and she apparently wanted my assistance in the future.
Apparently all the friends we have in common also help with what she does. She gives me a device to allow me to start doing what she does. It looked like an Apple Watch.
There was a button on the side that said "hold." When it was held, it would put the costume and mask on. The default was a really fly looking black and white jacket and pants that almost glowed. Also, the more I used it, the more stuff would be unlocked.
Well, I unlocked a costume with face paint, and looked a lot like if I dressed up as Caviera from Rainbow Six, but it was the closest thing to a mask I had. Apparently, I would have to design whatever costume I wanted myself.
I remember seeing a costume that was the uniform of the Waffen SS division and came with an STG-44. Didn't use it though.
I go driving again, in the same SUV, and park in the woods. I don't know why I was there, but it was well after dark, and I still had the watch with me. In fact, I don't believe I ever took it off.
While I'm parking my car, I'm approached by 3 children who were about 12 years old. They forced entry into the SUV while I was trying to get into costume without them seeing, so I could get past them. At this point, one of my friends who was in the watch group arrives. He helps me outrun them but accidentally leaves a costume sketch. The kids steal the SUV.
I started running from them and apparently unlocked the fast as fuck ability. Using the ability to run at like 50 miles per hour, we quickly made it into and out of a very busy campsite rather quickly, but some of the campers noticed me when I ran overtop them while they were trying to sleep. It was completely dark and there were campfires burning, but it must have almost been lights out.
At some point I managed to make it to a battleship. Like an old WWII ship converted into a museum, like the USS Yorktown was. At this time some flying evil dude attacked but he would have been too much so we left.
Back at a safe area, I was messing with the watch when I discovered it could physically change my body as well. I remember giving myself a nice six pack of abs before I woke up.
God, I love those dreams.
Well that's interesting. Glad you are still alive, for some reason fanfiction doesn't give me alerts
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I actually had a dream where I was present as a character but I was in the perspective of another character so that dream was pretty interesting.
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You had a second person dream lmao
This was both hilarious and insightful. Thank you for sharing.
MERRY CHRISTMAS!
...Honestly? Given the sheer mad genius of some of those stories, this tracks. Frankly, if this is any indication I think some of the aforementioned mad genius gets lost in translation.
As a side note now I kind of want that dream as a story, because knowing you it would be REALLY interesting.
would you make a sequal to your MLP X Ratchet and Clank Crossover and do the new Ratchet and Clank Rifts Apart story? or because of how you did your story, you couldn't make the nessisary changes to the story that fits your version, which would be far to difficult to write that story?
I always thought of this story and how the Rift's Apart story would work, and all i was thinking was either Twilight is just Genderbent into Dusk Shine with Rivit and she's his mom, or another mare pony ending up with Rivit