In 1988, Abramovic and Ulay decided to make a spiritual. Each of them walked the Great Wall of China, starting from the two opposite ends and meeting in the middle. As Abramovic stated, “That walk became a complete personal drama. Ulay started from the Gobi desert and I from the Yellow Sea. After each of us walked 2500 km, we met in the middle and said good-bye.”

Abramovic conceived this walk in a dream, and it provided what she thought was an appropriate, romantic ending to a relationship full of mysticism, energy and attraction. She later described the process: “We needed a certain form of ending, after this huge distance walking towards each other. It is very human. It is in a way more dramatic, more like a film ending … Because in the end you are really alone, whatever you do.”

Abramovic reported that during her walk she was reinterpreting her connection to the physical world and to nature. She felt that the metals in the ground influenced her mood and state of being; she also pondered the Chinese myths in which the great wall has been described as a “dragon of energy.”

How many people get inspired after having a dream? Mostly people who wake up from their dream usually end up forgetting what they dreamed about but what makes a dream very unique and different is the fact that it's coming from your subconscious and you have no control over it. Every dream is unalike to each other and according to Linda Staten, "There will always be dreams grander or humbler than your own, but there will never be a dream exactly like your own... for you are unique and more wondrous than you know!"

There is no doubt that our dreams can have an impact on our own lives, but they can also inspire whole generations and cultures too and over the years, many artists similar to Abramovic have been creatively inspired, had new ideas generated and have come up with important discoveries for the modern world all from their dreams.