I am an English major, so words and sounds are my interests. Working professionals dream about work projects and office relations.
Chefs dream about food and running restaurants.
Children tend to dream about school, their friends, parents and whatever they are exposed to in the media. Accordingly, artists regularly dream of projects they are involved with, and also often gain inspiration from these dreams, which they then try to re-capture and interpret in the waking world. The story, as Mr. Richard tells it, is that he awoke from a dream in which he was playing and hearing a great new song. He sat up, strummed a few measures into a tape-recorder that he kept at bedside, then promptly fell back asleep. In the morning when he listened to the tape he didn't think much of the song, but he decided to work with it anyway.