Everybody loves spaceships

I don't usually talk much about my dreams for kind of stupid and silly reasons that I won't get into here. But a couple dream patterns:

• Often, my dreams are set in my childhood, like I'll be in the classroom I had for third and fourth grade. From talking to other people, I think lots of people have an experience of "oh yeah, in my dreams, I'll be in my childhood home even though I haven't lived there in years." Sometimes I recognize that there's something messed-up about this, sometimes not.
• Sometimes, this feeling of messed-up-ness leads to "oh wow, time travel! This would be a great idea for a story!", especially if there's like a false awakening. Usually when I get up for real it's like...I'm not remembering the details very well anyway, and the idea probably wasn't that great.
• Often, when either of my siblings appear in my dreams, I'm at odds with them for some reason. This concerns me, because I wouldn't say we have a bad relationship nor did we as kids! They're tighter with each other than either is with me, but we've never been on bad terms. But my unconscious mind seems to have bad feelings there. :/

So the other night, I dream about my brother, and he's in charge of NASA or something, and I'm working for him. There's this bar graph of "approval ratings he has to get, by year," like a video game challenge or something, increasing over time, and the last couple years it's like "yeah the 'goal' value is lower but the extra challenge is, you have to have a woman astronaut." And his response is basically "...great, I can do this, everybody loves NASA, I'm going to be very popular! And I don't think people will disapprove of having woman astronauts? Is this like a chivalry thing where people are more worried about seeing women in danger? Nah. We got this." And I was like "yess! We do got this, I'm glad to be working for you."

So this was 1. a much better relationship with my brother than I usually have in dreams, and 2. as I was waking up/jumping out of that dream into another one, I did get a story idea that was not about women, bar graphs, or approval ratings, but was about astronauts. Right now it's looking to be a ~800 word flash fic. We'll see.