Dream concepts are fascinating - it's amazing how the brain can leave you with such indelible impressions without even trying. I still have a particular mental image I woke up with one morning filed away to be turned into a story, someday, when I've sorted out the particulars...

I’d read this comment when you wrote it, but I’ve been ruminating on it on and off XD And I think I’ve finally figured out the words attached to the thought, LOL. I find that in dreams, the story feels wonderfully complete, whole, and complex because I’ve associated all of the necessary emotions, vibes, etc to the scene and it just emotionally MAKES SENSE. But when it comes to the reality of it, one has to fill in the logic gaps with something concrete, an actual path that the viewers/readers outside of our own mind need to traverse to hit all of those emotional goalposts that our dream brains gave to us in perfect abstraction. At least, that’s how it works for me. Filling out the ‘concrete’ always gums me up.

That being said, me finding words to this conundrum might help me down that path, since naming/defining the problem is the first step to solving 8D

Yeah - it cuts straight through the rational layer and affects the emotions and mind's-eye directly. That can lead to some amazing combinations of feeling and experience that you'd never associate in waking life, but it can be a challenge drawing from that inspiration in a way that makes sense to anybody else ;)

Will this ever be finished? I love this~

I actually started noodling at it again a few weeks ago! :D I am just waffling on whether I can call it done or not. It’s always tempting to go back and fix every little thing but I may limit myself to doing a final quick pass then just uploading it sometime this week.

Awesome~ <3