You Discovered What, While You Were Sleeping?
Posted: Tuesday, February 24, 2009
by Sei DeMarks
Showtyme Jazz Duo
I was recently in Jackson, Mississippi for a blues and jazz music festival. Between sets I spent some time talking off and on with the security guards and police officers who were acting as body guards to the musicians and making sure the audience did not get too close or too rowdy.
We were discussing the usual hot topics of the day, the heat, the awful economy, how rap is not really music and the difficulty of getting our children to take hold and become working adults.Later that evening, I began to revisit that conversation in my mind and think about the statement that "nothing comes to a sleeper but a dream." I had to disagree with my own earlier agreement. Because I thought about my own life - how music and lyrics have come to me while I was dreaming or a CD cover design floated into my head while fast asleep. Some of my best internet niche ideas were given as gifts in that moment just before falling into a deep sleep.
I did a quick search on discoveries while dreaming and found some interesting information about the power of sleep and invention.
For example, I discovered that Paul McCartney dreamed the lyrics of his popular and moving song Yesterday. Not only have modern musicians given credit to a dream for some notable music creations, but it is reported that Motzart, Beethovan and even Schubert benefited from receiving music ideas while asleep and dreaming.
One of the world's most foremost scientists, Albert Einstein, credits a dream for helping him put together the final pieces of his theory of relativity.
And in business, America's first black woman millionaire, Madame C. J. Walker, gives credit to a dream for giving her a hair repair formula that allowed her to regrow her own damaged hair. This hair repair formula became one of the items, along with the straightening comb, which helped her achieve unbelievable financial and social success.
So. . . much more comes to a sleeper than a dream. The lyrics and music for the next grammy or the idea for a novel that will win the pultizer prize, or the cure for cancer, might just lie on the other side of your pillow.
Be ready to receive the riches you dream of. Always keep a notepad and pen by your bedside. Write down your ideas immediately on waking. Determine before you fall asleep what problems you want to resolve. And happy dreams to you.
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Top-level comments on this article: (2 total)Sei,This is a wonderful article! You've opened the imagination, thanks for sharing this with your readers.
Thats so true! All my book ideas have come from dreams. I hate how, once you have woken up, you have to keep repeating the dream or you can lose it so easily. Good article!Thanks Eleanor. I figure that if I could have just managed to get myself up when an
idea struck me, write it down and follow thru, that I would be a millionaire by now.
I've learned my lesson though and now keep paper and pen by my bed and
write everything down
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