Sleep – a great time for creativity.
Dreams see almost everything. And very often people mistifitsiruya this phenomenon and try to figure out what it tells the subconscious mind. Sometimes the dreams are really prophetic. And there are those that become a real breakthrough in any field for all of humanity. Exactly and these dreams will be discussed in our review.
1. Periodic table of chemical elements
Dmitri Mendeleev (born 1834) was a famous chemist. He tried to create a logical with the generally accepted scientific point of view, a way of presenting all of the discovered chemical elements. Despite the fact that he was sure that this is possible, Mendeleev could not understand how it can be done. One night he had a dream, which Mendeleev wrote later: “I saw in a dream a table where all elements fell into places as required. When I woke up I immediately wrote it down on a sheet of paper this table to sort the elements according to atomic weights”.
2. The Movie “Terminator”
The idea of one of the most famous sci-Fi movies came to James Cameron in a dream, when he had a temperature of 39 degrees. At the time he was in Rome, finishing work on the film “Piranha-2”, where he was ill with fever. In his dream he imagined a futuristic world in which a legless torso robot with the red eye, sticking in the ground kitchen knives and pulling at them, trying to get away from the explosion and catch up with the woman.
3. Google
While studying in College in 1996, Larry page had the constant feeling that the only reason he was accepted into College is a clerical error. The idea that he could be sacked at any time, making the page pretty nervous. On the wave of these emotions he once had a peculiar dream about how he downloaded all the information from the Internet to your computer. When he woke up, he made mathematical calculations to see if this is possible. It turned out that, given the bandwidth and storage problems, it was impossible to save all the web pages on the same computer. However, it was possible to save web pages as separate key points of information with them. This gave page an idea to do something without which the modern world is hard to imagine, the Google search engine.
4. The theory of relativity
One of the most famous discoveries by albert Einstein was inspired by a strange dream. He dreamed that he looks at cows grazing using an electric fence, and it seemed that it doesn’t bother me. It turned out that the fence battery. The farmer came to the fence, and replaced the battery, after which all cows jumped away from him. Einstein spoke in my sleep with the farmer about how funny looked like cows who committed simultaneous jump. Discouraged man he began to argue in response that the cows jumped one by one as the current was on the fence. When Einstein was awake, the dream told him the idea that one observer can see something happening instantly, while others see the same event occurring in a sequence. This formed the basis of the theory of relativity.
5. “Necronomicon” By H. P. Lovecraft
The origin of “the Necronomicon”, one of the most iconic books of evil, a bit mystical in and of itself. HP Lovecraft explains that “Necronomicon” means the “act dead” in the Greek language, although it caused some controversy about the correctness of a translation. However, he claimed that the original idea for the title came to him in a dream.
6. “The Adventures Of Tintin In Tibet”
From Hergé, Creator of Tintin comics, was recurring nightmares. As he himself said, in his dreams were always present the infinite white space that evoked a longing. In one dream he was a tower consisting of a series of ramps. At some point, in an immaculate white gazebo he was attacked by a white skeleton, and then around Hergé in the dream everything was white. A psychoanalyst told Hergé that dreams were caused by his previous work about Tintin and what artist need to stop immediately to draw comics. Instead, Hergé drew “Tintin in Tibet” – a story that mostly takes place in the snowy mountains, symbolizing the “white space” in the dreams of the artist.
7. “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde”
Robert Louis Stevenson was in dire financial Straits and the publisher pressured him, demanding to write an adventure book. One night Robert had a nightmare so bad that he started screaming in my sleep. His wife Fanny woke him, but he was dissatisfied, asked, “Why did you Wake me, I’ve had such an interesting story.” It was his dream and became the basis for the story “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde”.
8. “Inception” By Christopher Nolan
“The beginning” – the famous film by Christopher Nolan on dreams, it is not surprising that he was inspired by them. Nolan himself has repeatedly stated that a lot of what is happening in “the Beginning”, based on his personal dreams, and to be precise, on several occasions when he experienced a lucid dream and tried to change the sleep best way for yourself.
9. “Frankenstein”
Mary Shelley (whose name was Mary Godwin at the time) once came to a meeting organised by Lord Byron. The guests began to amuse each other by telling Ghost stories sitting around the fire. Inspired by this evening, Mary also wanted to create and tell your own Ghost story similar to those I heard. The same night Mary had a dream about a crazy scientist who tried to play God and invent a new human race.
10. The Beatles “Yesterday”
The melody for “Yesterday” – one of the most famous songs of the Beatles, Paul McCartney had through a dream. At first he didn’t know about it and just kind of woke up with the tune, rolling around in his head. Paul felt that somewhere heard this song before, but I couldn’t remember where. McCartney played a melody on the piano and wrote the notes down for a song, sending it to all my friends and asking who has heard this song. Neither did he believe that the song had come to him from his own subconscious, for a long time.
