To anybody on the outside,
I have been making art long before I got into high school. Back then, I didn't own a drawing tablet, all I had was an art program and a mouse. I made a lot of covers for stories I had at the time, but I deleted the stories due to how sloppy they were.
Celestial Stairway wasn't my first story. Echo, the main character, had a five book series telling his origin story, and even before that, there was 'The Cherry Tree'. So, why did I delete all this progress?
The Cherry Tree took place in a city named Selonika, and the story was about a violinist, who sat under a cherry blossom tree, and a boy who lost his memory. As I finished the third chapter and fell asleep that day, I had a dream. I was in Selonika, except there was no one in sight.
The dream was not lucid, but it was very vivid. I walked into Selonika's library, repeating a single word, 'Somnium'. I found a book, whose title I cannot remember, and opened it. That was when I saw a blurred map with a few words, and one of them was Selonika.
When I woke up that next day, I noted down the dream on a piece of paper, and as I was about to create the next chapter, I realized what 'Somnium' really meant. Selonika was a city inside the world of Somnium.
Selonika was a city I dreamed about, and now its real form appeared within a dream as well. After this point, I witnessed what I like to call, episodic dreams. I was myself in these dreams, still not lucid, watching this world's history play out, almost like I was watching a tv show.
I don't have these dreams anymore; there were only seven of them, and they told me all I needed to know. Nowadays, they just appear in my head, like a creative thought, maybe they really are thoughts, or perhaps... someone or something might be sending them to me... through the radio waves.
Dream Deep Dweller,
The Radio Child
ns216.73.216.13da2
and then Add to home screen.