“He was just behind me the hand so strong
With dirty nail and fingers so long!
He choked me so hard that I couldn’t even weep!
T’was at that time I woke up from my sleep!”
What is the common link between The theory of relativity, the structure of atom, the song by the The Beatles called Yesterday and this actually has a big list but to end it; the movie terminator!
A simple answer is what you seek with your eyes closed is what you get!
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The above list is complemented by Google! Yes literally!
Even the structure of Benzene and the idea of Frankenstein has this common link!
Now do not lose your sanity! The common link in all these is that these ideas all came to the people who had them in their dreams! They are among the numerous discoveries and inventions that are said to have been inspired through the act of dreaming.
For decades sleep scientists have tried to find out the link between dreaming and creative inspiration. They have long thought these insights came from the rapid eye movement stage of sleep, which is rich with dreams and begins an hour or more into the sleep cycle. But new evidence puts the spotlight on a much earlier sleep phase—the twilight zone that separates sleep and wakefulness—as fertile ground for a creative burst!
Remember how we used to be told that some dreams which come in certain parts of the night may or may not come true!
It apparently may be true! Not in the prediction of future though!
More than one famous thinker has capitalized on the first transitional phase into sleep, called non-rapid eye movement sleep stage 1, or N1, to generate creative insights. The painter Salvador Dalí would deliberately doze while holding a set of keys above a metal plate when mulling over an idea for a painting. As he nodded off, the muscles in his hand would relax. He’d drop the keys, which would hit the plate and wake him up, and he’d hold onto the image from his dream.
Thomas Edison is said to have used a similar technique with metal balls instead of keys to gain insights to be incorporated into his inventions. Now since I am a big Tesla fan, dream or not, Edison is no Tesla!
It has also been suggested that if you get some great ideas in your dreams you must immediately write the dream or the idea lest you forget! Even you would have noticed that you remember some dreams so well just immediately after you get up! So that is the best time to just get up and write the idea or even the dream if you want to get any advantage of the dream!
Forget about the science of it all, a great dream can be the idea of a great movie or storybook and make you famous or even happy or (rarely) both!
Now listen to this narration by a famous director produced verbatim…
“This idea came from a dream that I had while I was sick with a fever in a cheap pension in Rome in 1981. It was the image of a chrome skeleton emerging from a fire. When I woke up, I began sketching on the hotel stationery”
“The first sketch I did showed a metal skeleton cut in half at the waist, crawling over a tile floor, using a large kitchen knife to pull itself forward while reaching out with the other hand. In a second drawing, the character is threatening a crawling woman. Minus the kitchen knife, these images became the finale of The movie almost exactly.”
So did you understand this movie? Metal skeleton?!
Well, it is The terminator!
Sketching the one who inspired many to muscle up and be macho during the 90s on his birthday!
Praying for the poor souls at Wayanad…
God bless…
Shubh Ratri…
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