Robert Louis Stevenson counts among the many writers who have written stories directly inspired from their dream material. Dreams are images, typically presented in story form about our emotions, if we are sighted in our waking lives. If we are blind, they will be less visual, and more sensation, but hold the same fascination and tell us about ourselves in the same way that they do for us sighted folks. Our dreaming mind takes several waking life experiences and feeling reactions, and condenses them to one image. This is one of the reasons why they must be decoded to be understood.
Dreams are fresh material, unfettered by social expectation and convention.
They are a gift from nature, original, complex, unaffected, real, and unencumbered with artifice. They are emotionally intense, and honest which is why using them for story inspiration will give your writing that special ring of truth, infused with passion. Dreams come naturally to us as well-constructed stories. They have a beginning, a middle and a conclusion. Furthermore, dreams follow a series.