As an author, a lot of my ideas for books come from dreams, more than I'd like to admit. I plan to write a novel loosely based on last night's dream, and I'm actually really excited to write it.

The dream itself featured me, as male, following a young man around. You could definitely say I was stalking him, and he was always one step ahead of me. He wasn't anyone I knew in real life, nor do I think he had a name. I did, however, feel an infatuation with him, and was trying to do everything in my power to get near him.

It's hazy what exactly happened that led up to this point, but I somehow go to enter his house, and what awaited me was some sort of awful ambush. I remember being badly hurt physically.

Throughout the remainder of the dream, characters within it were trying to dispose of me or get me captured. I suppose if I'm stalking someone, I wouldn't expect any other reaction, but it was hard to express how painful it was not to fulfill the desire that set me out in the first place. I was being hardheaded though, and wouldn't give up.

The details are unclear. Either way, I was determined to get an idea down on paper and an outline written for a similar novel concept, and I'm absolutely excited about it, because it turned out to be something even more symbolic then what my dream may have been.

What's more, since starting therapy and writing every day, the really awful nightmares have (at least temporarily) been discontinued.