I think I usually have quite ordinary dreams. Sometimes my dreams take me to other dimensions. I can travel in my mind especially when I'm dreaming I focus my mind on what I want to dream. If I want to fly I focus on flying.
I would go to bed every night and have dreams about having a time machine and...
But honestly if you do a rigorous survey of my work I'll bet you'll find that biology is a theme far more often than physical science.