I think I found the dreamscape/verse where I was getting most of my artistic ideas again. The details of them are coming back like I had a serious case of amnesia for the past couple years. I think since I made a New Year's resolution more relevant to my personal creativity (and damn what people thought previously, I was having fun), as well as committing myself more to my career as a graphic designer, and maybe a few other *ahem* intoxicating influences being of some assistance, I am recalling everything I had in my sketchbooks since eons ago, and then some. I'm remembering things from before those books too, and how similar they were as well, to the point of being part of the same universe, or a branch of it. For reference, as I labeled them, the real world, our universe, the waking world, is the Prime Reality or 1st Nature, this other one is kinda like the Right Brain variant that is also smarter than it seems, basically a universe I assume our imagination connects to as a universe on it's own. Considering it's familiarity with people, as well as being able to explain it so easily due to said familiarity, I called it the 2nd Nature. And those branches that sometimes intersects with other branches or universes, I basically consider them Alter-Verses, where the influence of one universe is more prevalent than another, and the combination of them is stable enough to count as an individual universe as well; you could alternatively call it a schizo-verse as well considering how out-of-place pretty much everything is with one another (tons of anachronisms and dissonances).
Of course, now that these far more bizarre, and sometimes waking (as in still actively dreaming while I'm awake), dreams have returned out of the blue, a natural side-effect could be some looniness on my end on the more conscious side. But then again, having the awareness of it is it's own countermeasure. Nonetheless, it's nice to have my oddity return, crazier it may make me in the long-run. I accept it nonetheless, since it was fun as hell to use. In summary, I might be making random things again for mostly art's sake. Plus, figuring out how most of the stuff works that I get from my dreams is pretty fun as well. Now if I could translate them in a way that could make them work in our reality, then that would be awesome. Unfortunately, the laws of physics, and in cases of more plausible things, legal crap, especially with patent trolls and such, not to mention actually (re-)producing them is a bit of a hassle. Not to mention, some of the devices I got from my dreams (and illustrated in some of my books) outright rapes the laws of physics, or might as well be powered by magic (or at least spiritual energy) instead because it might be more efficient if ever possible. In one case, I used a series of sidearms that was like something out of Borderlands, and basically never needed a reload, and in some cases, spells could be cast on the bullets themselves, meaning I could shoot icicles filled with condensed fire (holding spell breaks on impact, letting off a cloud and a shockwave or pressure wave with a fireball coming out. Before you call them out as silly, they're basically percussive explosive rounds which can knock anything down, and dent things to hell and back, or in caves and tight quarters, bust a lot of eardrums. Not so useless or silly now, huh? If the icicle won't do you in, then maybe the explosion after it pierces something would. If you're a sack of flesh, you might not want to get hit by those.
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