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> > This will probably sound pretty silly, but my best inspiration has come from dreams.
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> That's not silly at all! A large portion of my stories have started out as dreams, which I just built upon. The things your slumbering mind dreams up are so incredible...scary sometimes, but still incredible.

Well, I had a *really* stupid dream last night; maybe somebody can turn it into a decent science fiction story. I was planning on going out in the boat to look for whales today (which we did, and saw nothing AT ALL except one penguin), so I guess I must have been thinking about whales when I went to sleep.

Anyway, the dream was about how whales got NASTY, and were plotting ways to come up on land and eat all the humans, and everybody had to move off the coastline up onto mountains and things as a result. I think the whales had organised some sort of cunning plan whereby they were making the sea level rise, too. It wasn't a gradual thing, it all happened FAST, so there was this mad rush and we were all climbing up this cliff face with the water rising underneath us and hyperintelligent crazed evil fanged whales trying to get us.

Brunnen-"needs psychiatric help"G