So there was this flying hippo with a machine gun and then . . .

So I'm watching an episode of Eureka right now about dreams, and it got me thinking about the weird dreams I've been having lately. Now, I'm not one of those people who use dreams as ideas for my writing (yet) or I'd write really weird books. Okay, weirder than they already are. But why do we dream what we dream?

I know dreams are supposed to be a way of dealing with the days events, but sometimes they don't make sense to a point where I'm wondering 'what kind of crazy day did I have anyway?'

I used dreams as a major plot point in The White City. Lock's dreams are prophetic because of his unprotected jaunts into the astral world. While I don't think my dreams are prophetic (although that would be cool) I have had déjà vu dreams. It's always disconcerting to have something happen that I've done in a dream. What does that mean?

I wish I knew.