Responding to this exercise to generate ideas for NaNoWriMo:
http://nano-writers.dreamwidth.org/69062.html wordplay of all kinds
incongruous images
silliness
rudeness
feeling lonely or seeing or thinking of someone who is lonely or frightened
feeling that people I know have changed
perhaps feeling that I've forgotten how to relate to people
the uncertainty of the future (two years at university and now I may be forced to pursue a different path)
friendships and relationships (romantic, intellectual and physical)
-loss and end of friendship
-forging friendships
loneliness and isolation
lighthouses
labyrinthine houses (haunted, of course)
sprawling secret passages
mirrors and reflections (long ago dream of my mum threatening to send me to the mirror garden)
automatons, robots, artificial intelligence, sentient computers
black holes and stars and space travel imagined and possible
weird time effects and time travel
mathematical mysteries
escher
quantum cat