Lovecraft's Dreams

Recently I had a strange dream I can't remember. I recall that it was something to do with giants who we needed to save the world. They weren't colosal beasts but about the size of a small house, that's the only detail that I remember. That and they were grayish blue in color. As I was pondering what caused me to have such a dream and what I ate the night before, a thought occured to me about Lovecraft. Many of his stories and ideas came from dreams. The word "Nyarlathotep" itself is the remnant of a dream and the only thing Lovecraft could recall after waking. That's something that makes dreams so powerful is how much they make sense in the moment but evaporate like water in the morning. I can't remember half of my dreams but the ones that I do always stick with me, even the small bits. When I was asleep, I remember that those giants held the key to saving the world. Now, it seems ridiculous that I thought such a thing. But that freedom in your mind to allow yourself to lose control of your thought process is intoxicating. I think this is why Lovecraft based so many of his ideas off of strange thoughts and dreams. He's not the only one to craft a story out of a night time delusion. Clive Barker's Imagica was based on a series of dreams. The book is a project that took him several months of intense writing. Stephen King went cold turkey on his pain meds after his accident and wrote a story about a bomb falling on a city after such a dream. It's interesting how we grasp dreams the same way we try to hold sand and how they pop up in our consciousness like finding sand in your shoe.