Calling all writers:

I dabbled in lucid dreaming three years ago and now I'm back. I'm between jobs and have a lot of time on my hands so I figured I might as well. One of my passions is writing. If I could identify myself in a genre it would be magical realism. I love interlacing the surreal and the bizarre with the mundane.

I'd love to hear techniques of siphoning inspiration for your writing from lucid dreams. Right now I'm picturing an Inception-esque "opening a safe in the wall and finding the blueprints for your next short story." But then again, all writing is illegible in dreams, so never mind.

How have you as a writer benefited from being aware of your dreams? Any cool success stories?