Yoshiaki Koizumi had a chance to discuss how the idea of Majora’s Mask to Official Nintendo Magazine. Apparently Koizumi got the idea from daydreaming about the Moon falling towards us. This is quite interesting seeing that other titles in the series were taken from life experiences by Shigeru Miyamoto. Apparently Koizumi draws his ideas from dreams and daydreams but if you have played Majora’s Mask you can actually see that certain parts of the game you can actually feel or maybe even see that it was dream-like. Jump inside of the story to see what Koizum said on this.

“Occasionally I also take images from dreams. Perhaps I am a little bit different from Mr Miyamoto in that sense.

“So if I could just give an example of one of those idle daydreams that turns into an idea for a game, I would look up at the moon and think about what would happen if the moon started to fall towards Earth. From that idea we moved onto the world in Majora’s Mask which is threatened by being destroyed by the moon.”

Source: Official Nintendo Magazine