Where in the world do you get ideas from?

Ideas. Do you get them from a magical fairy land? Does some mystical force just plop ideas in your head? No. I think not. But ideas do come from a lot of places. These places could include, your brain, something that someone else has said, or what someone else has done. It is not often that you get completely new ideas from your brain, they are usually based on experiences you have had, or are from your subconscious that has seen things with you not knowing it. In fact, I think you would have to have a really exceptional mind to create something that has no relation to anything else in the world. Nowadays you might think that there is not much to be invented, but I bet that before we had phones, or ways of communicating long-distance people thought that to. But there are those you dream of such things. Sure we have ideas and dreams about things all the time, but some people are doing things to make that happen. Just look at all those studies with nano-technology. Otherwise we get most of our ideas from the things around us. You could get inspiration from a painting, a building, even an animal. If you try thinking of something creative, or just made up, with your eyes open, I can almost guaranty that what ever you think of will be based on something in real life. Look at Leonardo Da Vinci, he got his flying machine idea from birds. If there were no birds in the world, I doubt people would even think about being able to fly. Things that people say can trigger ideas as well. They might remind you of something or just say something that makes you think about it, and maybe connect other things with it to form an idea of some kind.
Overall, I think that you can get ideas from almost anything, but it is very hard to get completely new ideas, that are not based on anything else in the world. So no, you don't get ideas from a magical fairy land. You get them from everything around you.