On Dreams and Story

Can you write an entire novel based off a dream? I know several writers that have done just that. I’m not one of them. I’ve written down ideas from dreams, obsessed over them, trying to come up with a character or plot.

Nothing.

Perhaps my dreams simply do not translate well. Perhaps I am too close to the feelings they invoke and therefore cannot step back and see them as story. I don’t know the answer, but I continue to hope for a dream that I can turn into story.