Dreams create inspiration for success

Dreams create inspiration for success

It may seem hard to believe that people can invent things in their dreams, but in fact, there are many examples of such inventions, which have helped many scientists solve outstanding problems. There are many inventions, literary creations and so on

It was inspired by a dream or it was directly acquired in a dream.

Elias Howe, an American technician, was inspired by a dream and invented the sewing machine, which is renowned around the world. He wanted to build a machine to sew clothes, but in the process of trial production, because the thread in the eye of the needle kept breaking, the experiment was never successful. One day, he had a nightmare:

He was tied to a stake, and a group of Africans sang and danced around him with spears, sometimes pointing them at him. Now he found a small hole in the tip of each spear.

When Howe woke up, he thought about what he saw in the dream and thought about the broken thread, and suddenly realized that the position of the eye of the needle should be placed on the tip of the needle, and the problem was solved, and the sewing machine announced the successful birth.

The Hungarian writer Laszaro Joseph Pirro was annoyed that when he wrote with a pen, he often got ink marks everywhere. One night in 1938, he had a dream:

He was writing in the studio, the noise of the crowd outside the window interrupted his train of thought, angry, he used his pen to spray ink to the crowd outside the window, people laughed at him, he was even more angry, picked up the gun to shoot, who knew flying out of the gun

It was not a bullet, but a large amount of ink, and the people laughed even more. Piro was so angry that he picked up the paper beads on his desk and shoved them into the barrel of the gun. Then he fired into the crowd, but only a small amount of ink came out of the barrel.

After getting up the next day, Piro immediately sat down at the writing desk and drew the design of the ballpoint pen, so the ballpoint pen was born.

The 19th-century Russian chemist Dimitri Mendeleev expended great effort trying to discover some principle of order that would underlie the apparently irregular relationship between the basic chemical elements that make up the physical world. One afternoon, he dozed off in his chair while his family played music next door. Suddenly, in his dream, he realized that the basic elements were as related to each other as themes and phrases in music. When he woke up, he picked up a piece of paper and wrote down the periodic table of modern chemical elements.

Fifty years later, the Danish physicist Niels Bohr took Mendeleev's understanding a step further. Bohr wondered why the inert elements existed in the first place. Why are they different from each other? How do they maintain stability between them? For example, why is there no transition element between hydrogen and helium? After months of research on the subject, he had a dream about watching horse races. In my dream I saw a horse running on a track clearly marked with white powder. Horses are allowed to change course as long as they keep a certain distance from each other. If a horse runs along the white line and kicks the white powder, it is immediately sent off.

When he woke up, Bohr realized that this 'runway rule' symbolized the answer to his question. When orbiting the nucleus, the electron, like a horse galloping down a racetrack, must follow a predetermined path. The stability of the element is explained by the simple fact that the path of the electrons is determined by the 'quantum.' It was on the basis of this experience that Bohr created his quantum theory and subsequently won the Nobel Prize.

A dream that Albert Einstein had when he was young. And a dream of great importance to the history of science. He dreamed that he was sliding his sled down a steep hill, faster and faster, and as he approached the speed of light, he realized that the stars overhead were refracting the light into a color spectrum he had never seen before. The sight left a lasting impression on him, and he regarded his entire scientific achievement as the result of meditating on that dream. This dream provided the basis for the 'thought experiment' of his achievements, through which he created the theory of relativity.

In the spring of 1940, Parkinson was a young engineer at Bell LABS. He and a team of scientists are working on autorecorders, devices that use small potentiometers to control recording operations. But while Parkinson was working on this new telephone technology, the Nazis were attacking Holland, Belgium, and France. Parkinson was very concerned about these world events, and there was one

One night he had this dream:

'I found myself in what seemed to be an artillery pit or an anti-aircraft gun shelter. I don't know how I got here - anyway, I am here. There was a group of French or Dutch fighters in uniform in the bunker - for their helmets were neither German nor British. I saw the muzzle of a cannon staring at me. I had never seen an antiaircraft gun so close, and at best I knew a little general cannon knowledge. It fired an occasional shell, but I was impressed that every time the cannon fired, a plane must have been shot down! After three or four shots, one of the combatants smiled and beckoned me over to take a closer look at the cannon. I followed his instructions, looked down to the left cannon ear, and underneath it was the potentiometer we had developed! I couldn't have read it wrong -- it was our potentiometer.'

As soon as Parkinson woke up, he thought: 'If the potentiometer can control the high-speed action of the recording pen, and it is very accurate, then why can't it be installed on an anti-aircraft gun with the same design principle?' In his dream, Parkinson knew nothing about the cannon, but he dreamed of the launch key to effectively aiming at the target, that is, using a calculator to convert the position of the enemy aircraft shown in the radar data, and according to this direction for the instruction to fire the gun to destroy the target. This has a beginning

The first fully automatic antiaircraft gun seeker was the famous M-9 electronic calculator, and its invention can be said to be completely inspired by Parkinson's dream inspiration. The M-9 is not only easy to operate, but also cheap and capable of mass production. During the Second Battle of Britain, during the whole of August 1944, the German V-1 missiles fired at London were shot down in nine out of ten cliffs near Dover Sea... In one week in August, 91 V-1 missiles were fired, 89 of which were destroyed by M-9 controlled anti-aircraft guns. After World War II, anti-aircraft missiles and anti-ballistic missiles appeared one after another, and the M-9 can be said to be the pioneer of these inventions.

The great physicist Bohr also got the inspiration of 'atomism' from a dream. One night, when he was a student at Cambridge University, he had a dream in which he was standing on the sun, enveloped in blazing gas, and the planets, each connected to the sun by a filament, whirled around the sun and whirled past him. Suddenly, the hot gas cooled, the sun solidified, and the planets derailed. Bohr awoke from his dream thinking that he had just witnessed a model of an atom, with the sun fixed at its center as the nucleus and the planets orbiting it as electrons, orbiting it in an 'energy field.'

In China's scientific and technological circles, there are also many inventions that benefit from dreams. Lu Jiaxi, former president of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, used to solve problems in a dream. When Lu Lao was studying at Xiamen University, there was an advanced calculus exercise that could not be solved, and the result was a solution in a dream. Although he forgot it after waking up, he finally remembered the solution in his dream after a day of hard thinking and meditation, and thus solved the problem. Ling Chang, an engineer at the First Research Institute of the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications, struggled to find a solution when researching automatic test appliances. One night, in his dream, he drew the circuit, and in his mind, like a flash of lightning, the circuit lit up. He got up, turned on the light, drew it quickly, and the subject of his study was solved in a dream. China's famous architect Yu Junnan once completed the architectural concept in a dream. The White Swan Hotel in Guangzhou City, which is rich in Chinese style and wins the garden, was designed by him in a dream. After waking up, he drew a sketch in accordance with the design in the dream and completed the architectural concept.

In terms of art, the German composer Wagner said in his opera 'Tristan and Isolde' : 'Everything is dreamed, my poor brain can not think of these things.' Even one of his overtures came from a dream. Brahms' Piano Concerto No. 1 owes its basic idea to dreaming. Paul West, the popular musician who wrote many popular songs such as 'The Theme of Dr. Chivago's Love', was on top of his creative years

Never forgetting to take a pen and paper to bed, he told his son and friends that dreams were often his source of inspiration.

During the Civil War, Julia Walder Howe and her fellow singers went to Washington for an interview, singing 'John Brown's Body.' But when they came back, someone asked her why she didn't have a good name for the song. That very night, she slept well, but woke up early the next morning. As she waited for the dawn to come, many wonderful words came to her mind: 'In my eyes I saw the light of God...' 'But still she lay still,' her biographer writes, 'line after line, phrase after phrase, flowing inexorably to the rhythm of the march.' She saw long lines of notes moving before her eyes, and heard the voice of the nation coming out of her own mouth. She waited until the sound and the queue were over; Then she sprang out of bed, grabbed a pen and paper, and in one fell swoop wrote the Battle Hymn of the Republic in the gray dawn.'

Another famous example of writing in dreams is Tardini's The Devil's Trembling Millet. In his old age, Tardini told astronomer Lalande that he had a dream in which he had sold his soul to the devil. In this dream, he gave his violin to the devil to test his reaction. 'But,' he said, 'when I heard him play perfectly

When I played a beautiful sonata, I was very surprised. His skill in marriage was completely beyond my imagination. I was so happy and completely overwhelmed that I felt myself short of breath and woke up quickly. Then I picked up my violin and tried to repeat what I heard. But it didn't work. The Devil's Shudder I have written, though it is my best work, is no better than the one I heard in my dreams!'

Many writers have expressed their doubts about which ideas come from the waking state of consciousness and which from the dream state, and have shown that these two different states have been influencing each other. Lawrence, the English novelist, wrote to Edward Garnett:

'I cannot judge whether the dream is the result of my thoughts, or whether the thoughts are the result of the dream. It's all very suspicious. But my dreams have come to my conclusion. They make the final decision. I dreamed about the final decision. Sleep seemed to hammer out the logical conclusion of my stupor and provide the final word in my dreams.'

The English poet Coleridge also got the inspiration of his famous poem 'Kublai Khan' from a dream. One afternoon, while reading, he smoked some opium, and soon fell asleep, and before he went to sleep, he saw a passage in the book: 'Kublai Khan.

As a result, he had a colorful dream, in which he not only saw forests, streams, and strange rocks, but also seemed to have two or three hundred lines of poetry in his mind. When he woke up, he immediately took a swipe at the pen and wrote down the lines as if they were real: 'Kublai Khan in Shangdu'/' ordered a grand palace of pleasure to be built/where sacred rivers/flowed through caves never explored by man/down to a black sea ', as Colridge wrote 54 lines at a stretch, a visitor interrupted his poetry, waiting for him to write again an hour later, The original inspiration disappears like 'the image above the flowing water.'

As for why inventions can be made in dreams, scientific research shows that this is due to the function of the right brain, because modern research has found that: The right brain is the ancestral brain, which not only passes on the wisdom of our ancestors to future generations, but also the right brain is the unconscious brain, and it is also the energy-saving brain and the action brain, and what is more amazing is the right brain or the soul of creation, because the ancestral factors of the right brain, 100,000 times the information of the left brain and the rapid and efficient information processing method, so that it has an excellent creative nature. Chen Tianyu wrote in the journal Science World that in addition to being related to the human brain, they are also closely related to the following five factors:

First, they (scientists, artists) have studied a problem long and hard enough, they have stored in their minds a great deal of information needed to solve the problem, they have entered the situation of 'everything is ready, only the east wind'. Modern scientific research on dreams has proved that the objects in dreams are mostly what the dreamer has experienced, seen, heard and thought before. That is, people often say that 'day thinking, night dreaming', that is, dreams are a kind of 'practice' reflection of people's objective world. This kind of reaction can be the fuse of success.

Second, their cerebral cortex has formed a dominant stimulation center for problem solving. Dreaming is the continuation and development of the dominant excitement center. That is to say, in sleep, there is no higher neural activity in a certain part during the day, and it will continue in another way during sleep. Thus, sleeping and dreaming has become a transformation after scientific research during the day. Through dreaming, evoked the divine power of success.

Third, their peculiar way of thinking. During sleep, the nerve cells of the brain can clean up the things acquired during the day's study and research, and process and transform the information that has been received and stored to create new information. As new information becomes available, the problem will be solved. At the same time, the reason why they can make their dreams come true is an extremely important

The reason lies in the similarity between dreams and subjects. Because their understanding and generalization level are much higher than the average person, they can be inspired and encouraged from the dream, and it is easy to find a breakthrough in scientific research along the thinking track of the dream.

Fourth, they consciously carried out the process of cultivation and deepening the dream of 'eliminating the rough and the essence, eliminating the false and remaining the true, from here to there, from the surface to the inside'. In the state of awakening, people's self-consciousness exists, and people's conscious mental activities are logical. In the state of sleep, people's self-consciousness disappears, the unconscious (that is, subconscious) psychological activities lack logic, and strange fantasies will appear in the dream. As a result, dreams are often unscientific. It is the scientist who adopts the scientific attitude of 'sublation' to the dream, not to follow the dream, but to go beyond the dream, and to achieve success with the help of the dream.

Fifth, scientists have scientifically verified dreams. Creative dreams often just provide a sense of invention and inspiration. Whether it is correct or not needs to be experimented, tested and demonstrated under the guidance of the scientific spirit. It was only after experimental studies that many scientists confirmed his dream results.

When people are awake, due to the interference of a large number of external information, their mental state is highly tense, which will hinder some information

Connecting, processing and creating. During sleep, due to the temporary suppression of various external information, the mental tension is relaxed, and some information is easy to communicate and obtain new creation. Especially those who have a wide range of knowledge and long-term thinking about their own topics, the idea of internal information is more conducive to the recombination and transformation of relevant information. The mind of the scientist and the artist, in the dream, runs like a wild horse in the vast field of knowledge, thus bypassing the insurmountable obstacles in the waking state and opening up the channels of certain information blocked by consciousness, so that new discoveries or new inventions may be made. Everyone knows that the subject of creative activity in dreams is, in the last analysis, raised by waking consciousness; Any model created in the dream can only be completed by the final conclusion of the waking consciousness... If you have a problem that you can't solve, if you want to do a great creation, it is better to sleep first! Dreams will help to liberate your mind, dreams will open up broad ideas to you, dreams will probably provide you with important Revelations.

Knowing that dreams can also help with invention, we should also make it clear that dreams of inspiration do not happen all the time. It appears in your dreams only when your need is most urgent, at your request, and sometimes it repeats itself until you remember it completely.