When I was a kid, I remember having a few dreams straight out of
DS. The only thing I remember is that one of them featured Gerard and Quentin, and the tension between them was almost unbearable. Somehow I was involved on one side or the other, and I knew that, no matter what happened to one, the other was going to kill me. Don't remember how it resolved.
A couple of years ago, though, I had a very vivid dream in which I discovered that Rose Cottage existed in my hometown in a place I had never visited before. When I discovered it there, my excitement was palpable -- mainly because Nancy Barrett was there.
But Gerard also featured prominently in the dream, and again he presented a threat. By this time, I had already met Jim Storm, but it wasn't a caricature of Jim in the dream -- it was really supposed to be Gerard, and he was one evil fellow. Again, I don't recall how it resolved, but the images I have are very intense. And no, Rose cottage was not a model; it was a real house, although it looked a lot like the prop in the show.