Dreams and Ideas

I have some interesting dreams and sometimes those dreams are ideas for scenes or even a premise. The other night I dreamed I was someone fighting aliens, but I don't consider myself a sci fi writer. One day I might try it. I've always liked sci fi as a kid. And I did begin a graphic novel that was sci fi. I even completed two episodes of a four part series.

Still, when it comes to dreams I just wonder where those things come from. There was one where I was fighting some giant monstrosity who couldn't be harmed. That might have been triggered by some movie I saw recently, but it didn't look anything like any movie I'd seen.

When I was writing KILLER OF KILLERS, at least twice I dreamed of characters from that story and things happening that I might put in there. And one thing happened that was interesting. Shoji Wada, the old master of the Martial Arts Academy had transformed at the moment of death, somehow, and I considered using that. But then I said no. It was too much like the time Obiwan Kenobi from Star Wars seemed to do just that at the moment Darth Vader killed him.

No matter what, I don't want to bite off any other story. If it's not my idea entirely, I don't want to use it. And it could very well be true that dreams don't originate from you. They might just come from someone else. And that's kind of scary unto itself.