If so, then how do we bring that quality into our waking life? P.S. I gave an answer about (close to) this on this site---it's the "lucid
dream" question of about a week ago...
2007-03-21 08:43:30 · 8 answers · asked by comedycatalyst 2 in Social Science ➔ Psychology
Are there any people in history (inventors, etc.), who might have used this?
2007-03-21 09:24:39 · update #1
Definitely. Like, I have this friend who is really boring when I'm not around to get her going. But one time, she told me she had this really weird dream where she was a cop and she was trying to catch a squirrel rapist. Freeeeeeeaky. (Who would rape a squirrel?)
2007-03-21 08:57:00 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
While dreaming our brain makes random connections between things we often do not connect while awake. (At least that is my impression of the dreams I actually happen to remember, after I wake up.)
That ability of drawing new connections, is definitively an important part of creativity. What is missing during a dream is the mechanism of choosing the functional connections from the nonfunctional ones.
I'm not sure how to bring the connections made during a dream into waking life, because we tend (or at least I do) to forget our most dreams, when we wake. Those we remember are fair game. (Actually, I did have some dreams that gave me great ideas for my own artwork.)
What we could learn from dreams, is to allow ourselves to be bold to make connection where nobody made connections before, rather than dismissing possible connections right away, before thinking them through.
2007-03-21 16:06:59 · answer #2 · answered by LGM 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
absolutely! I get a problem dijested into my little brain, and let it lie there over night, and very commonly dream the solution,,even complex structural math ones. I have been resorting to"sleeping on it" for many years.
2007-03-27 11:45:14 · answer #3 · answered by Steve C 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
keep a dream journal, as soon as you wake up in the morning, write down as much as u can remember about ur dream(s).. soon enough you can look back and figure out more about urself.. and thats how u use it in every day life..
2007-03-25 18:47:48 · answer #4 · answered by openmindedfreesoul 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know! aren't we dreaming right Now!! oh!? and on the other question, how do we bring that to be walking!? Well!, your going to have to Dream about it! How's That!
2007-03-21 16:15:13 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When you dream about doing something, you usually dream you do it perfectly.If you keep dreaming about doing it perfectly, in reality you will.
2007-03-29 02:26:35 · answer #6 · answered by Gary B 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Dreams are a parallel reality...a much nicer world...loll
2007-03-29 15:41:42 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
While one can receive ideas and incites, it is generally rambling thought rather than creative thought.
2007-03-28 03:55:18 · answer #8 · answered by LELAND 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋