>Then there's that other story where Samuel Coleridge claimed to have dreamed the beginning of the famous 'Xanadu' poem while under the influence of an opium anodyne, only to be rudely interrupted by a "person from Porlock," right?) I don't know, there are probably other examples of "dream insights" resulting from potentially creative synthesis as released from the strictures of the conscious mind.
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I have experiences like the above quite often... er... without the opium part. :) That is to say, I have dreams that become parts of my writing. The novel I'm trying to write right now actually begun with a single dream. I dreamed a scene that was extremely vivid (with all 5 senses involved, instead of only sight & hearing), and when I woke up I immediately went and wrote the entire scene down. That one dreamed scene evolved into the plot base for my novel.

Sosi"dreams are way better than drugs"qui