This digital painting of my character Peetrick is based on a dream I had some time when I was working on MLP:FIM.
More like a nightmare: I was in a greenhouse. I was desperately holding the lid onto a jar of cockroaches that was sitting on a picnic table. A man in a lab coat screamed as he was circling me "DON'T OPEN THE JAR." Cockroaches kept escaping and running up my arms.
I didn't understand this dream until many years later, when memories started to resurface, in the same horrible fashion as cockroaches escaping from a jar.
.I didn't always consciously know what happened to me. But unconsciously, I did know.