Inspiration and Unreality

I can only speak for myself, but you've probably had similar experiences: there are certain sensations, especially music, that conjure up an impression of an alternate universe. This alternate universe may simply be an embellished version of the past, or a future that never transpired, or something else altogether. Multiple different phenomena may inspire a vision of the exact same unreality, so the unreality seems to exist independently of any particular thing that inspires it. You get the sense that the unreality is complete and internally consistent. Maybe it's something like a Platonic ideal, a world within the world of forms.

I've noticed that my own creative endeavors seem to be an effort to manifest something from an unreality in our own world. Whether it be a story or a work of visual art, I want to materialize a small piece of an entire universe, a shard of mirror reflecting its light.

All this isn't an act of self-aggrandizement, a way to characterize myself as this brooding intellectual with a quasi-spiritual connection to things you couldn't possibly conceive of: I'm just trying to describe a quality of the creative process, which may or may not be universal. And you may say, So much talk about creativity and nothing to show for it. Are you an author / artist / whatever it is you claim to be, or just a half-rate blogger? It's a valid criticism. I do write stories, design procedural graphics, and draw things, but nothing is worth sharing yet. I'm still young and my creative skills may develop if I persevere, so who knows how this idea of "inspiration from unreality" will hold up. Maybe I'll come to realize how silly it is, or I'll find something deeper within it.