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Gu Ran disappeared, and the black bird was nowhere to be seen. In their place was a black dragon with a formidable dragon head and massive wings.
"I've never had such a dream before," Gu Ran was very aware of what he had become.
A Western black dragon.
"Is it related to my recent re-reading of 'The Interpretation of Dreams'? Did I not become an Eastern dragon because my subconscious feels that I have more dark aspects to my spirit?"
Gu Ran analyzed.
"Perhaps I could write a paper on it, or even a poem. That way, I'd be both a scholar and a poet."
"Mary Shelley claimed that the inspiration for 'Frankenstein' came from her own lucid dreams, which could develop the plot automatically;
"Ramanujan, hailed as 'the son of India,' proclaimed that mathematical formulas would appear automatically in his dreams;
"Toro, the director of 'Pan's Labyrinth,' mentioned in an interview that he made friends with monsters in his dreams before the age of eleven;
