Dreams create inspiration for success

It seems unbelievable to say that people will have inventions and creations in their dreams, but in fact, there are many examples of this, helping many scientists to solve unresolved problems. There are many inventions, creations, literary creations, etc.

It is enlightened by the dream or directly obtained in the dream.

Elias Howe, an American technician, got enlightenment from his dream and invented the sewing machine, which became famous all over the world. He wanted to build a machine to sew clothes, but during the trial production process, because the thread in the eye of the needle was always broken, the experiment was never successful. One day, he had a nightmare:

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

When Hao woke up, he connected what he saw in his dream to the broken thread and thought, and he suddenly felt that the needle should be placed on the tip of the needle. The problem was solved, and the sewing machine was born.

The Hungarian writer Laszarro Joseph Piro, when writing with a pen, often gets ink marks everywhere, and he is very annoyed by this. One night in 1938, he had a dream:

He was writing in the studio. The noise of the crowd outside the window interrupted his thoughts. In anger, he sprayed ink on the crowd outside the window with his pen. People laughed at him, and he was even more angry. Fight, who knows flying out of the gun

It was not a bullet, but a big bit of ink. People laughed even harder when they saw this. Pirro was furious. He picked up the beaded paper on the desk and stuffed it into the barrel of the gun. Then he fired at the crowd, but he saw it from the barrel. Only a small amount of ink flows out.

After getting up the next day, Piroma sat down at the desk and drew a ballpoint pen, so the ballpoint pen came out.

In the 19th century, the Russian chemist Dimitri Mendeleev spent a great deal of energy trying to discover a certain principle of order that became the basis of the apparently irregular relationship between the basic chemical elements that make up the material world. One afternoon, he dozed off in a chair, and his family played music next door. Suddenly, in his dream, he realized that the basic elements are as related to each other as the themes and short sentences in music. After waking 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 Boll took Mendeleev's understanding to another stage. Boll asked why inert elements exist in the first place? Why are they different from each other? How do they remain stable? For example, why are there no transition elements between hydrogen and helium? After months of research on this issue, he made a Watch the dream of horse racing. In my dream, I saw a horse running on a track clearly marked with white powder. As long as they maintain a certain distance between each other, the horse is allowed to change the runway. If a horse runs along the white line and kicks the white powder, it will be sent off immediately.

When he woke up, Ball realized that this "runway rule" symbolized the answer to his question. When orbiting the atomic nucleus, the electrons will be like a horse Benz in the runway, and they must travel along a predetermined route. The route of the electron is determined by the "quantum", and these simple facts explain the stability of the element. It is on the basis of this experience that Boll created his quantum theory and subsequently won the Nobel Prize.

Albert Einstein's dream when he was young. It is also a dream that is extremely important to the history of science. He dreamed that he was sliding down a steep hill with a sled, getting faster and faster. When approaching the speed of light, he realized that the stars on his head refracted light into a color spectrum he had never seen before. This scene left an unforgettable impression on him. He believed that his entire scientific achievement was the result of meditation on that dream. This dream provided the basis for his achievements as a "thought experiment" and created the theory of relativity through it.

In the spring of 1940, Parkinson was a young engineer at Bell Laboratories. He and a group of scientists are working on an automatic recorder, a device that uses a small potentiometer to control the recording operation. But while Parkinson was studying the new technology of the phone, the Nazis were attacking the Netherlands, Belgium, and France. Parkinson’s reports of these world situations are distraught.

He had a dream like this one night:

"I found myself in an artillery pit, or in a bunker for anti-aircraft anti-aircraft guns. I don’t know how I got here — anyway, I am here. There is a group of uniformed French or Dutch fighters in the bunker. ——Because their helmets are neither German nor British. I saw the muzzle of a cannon staring at me. I have never seen anti-aircraft guns so close, at best I only know a little common knowledge about cannons. It fired a shell occasionally, but I was impressed that every time a cannon was fired, an aircraft must be shot down! After shooting three or four rounds, a combatant smiled and greeted me to go over and take a closer look at the cannon. I Following his instructions, looking towards the left ear of the cannon, the potentiometer we developed was installed underneath! I was not mistaken—that's our potentiometer."

When Parkinson woke up, he immediately thought: "If the potentiometer can control the high-speed movement of the stylus and is very accurate, then why can't it be installed on the anti-aircraft gun of the same design principle?" In the dream, Parkinson has no idea about cannons. , But he dreamed of the 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 firing cannons to destroy the target according to this command for the aiming direction. Since the beginning

The first fully automatic anti-aircraft gun guide was the famous M-9 electronic calculator. Its invention can be said to be completely inspired by Parkinson's dream. M-9 is not only easy to operate, but also inexpensive and can be mass-produced. When the British were in the Second Battle of Britain, the German V-1 missiles fired to London were shot down on a cliff near the Dover Sea in all of August 1944... In August, the Germans launched a total of V-1 missiles. There were 91 V-1 missiles, of which 89 were destroyed by anti-aircraft guns controlled by M-9. After the Second World War, 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 Boll also got his "atomic theory" inspiration from his dream. When he was a student at Cambridge University, he had a dream one night. He dreamed that he was standing on the sun, his whole body was covered by burning gas, and the planets were connected to the sun by a filament and revolved around the sun. , Whirring around from him. Suddenly, the hot air cooled, the sun solidified, and the planet derailed and escaped. Boll woke up from his dream and felt that what he had just witnessed in the dream was a model of an atom, and the fixed sun in the center was the nucleus, and the planets orbiting it were electrons, forming it with a certain "energy field" trail of.

In our country's science and technology circles, many inventions and creations have benefited from dreams. Lu Jiaxi, former dean of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, once solved problems in a dream. When Lu Lao was in school at Xiamen University , he could not solve an advanced calculus exercise. As a result, he got a solution in his dream. Although he forgot after waking up, he finally remembered the solution in his dream after thinking hard for a day. So as to solve this problem. The commander-in-chief of the First Research Institute of the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications was struggling to understand when he was studying automatic test appliances. One night, in his dream, he drew the circuit, as if a lightning flashed in his mind, it lit up, and the circuit went through. He stood up and got up, turned on the light, and quickly drew it. The subject he was studying was solved in a dream. The famous Chinese architect Yu Junnan once completed the architectural concept in his dream. The White Swan Hotel in Guangzhou, which is full of Chinese style and a garden, was designed in his dream. After waking up, he drew sketches according to the design in his dream. , Completed this architectural concept.

In terms of art, the German composer Wagner said in his self-selected opera "Tristan and Isolde": "Everything is a dream, and my poor head can't think of these things. Even he created it. One of the overtures of Brahms is also from dreams. Brahms’s No. 1 piano concerto, the basic concept of its creation is also attributed to dreams. He has written "The Theme of Dr. Zivago’s Love" and many other popular musicians like Paul • West, during his creative years, he was on

He never forgets to bring pen and paper when he sleeps in bed. He told his son and friends that dreams are often his source of inspiration.

During the Civil War , Julia Ward Howe and her companions sang "Johan Brown’s Corpse " and went to Washington for an interview, but when they came back, someone asked her why she didn’t give the song a good name At that time, she slept well that night, but woke up early the next morning. While she was waiting for the dawn, many wonderful words came into her mind: "I see the light of God in my eyes..." "But she is still lying quietly," her biographer wrote, "One line Line by line, words and sentences emerged unstoppably along with the melody of the march. She saw a long line of notes swaying in front of her eyes, and heard the voice of the nation speaking from her own mouth. She kept waiting. Until the sound and the queue are over; then she flicked up from the bed, grabbed the pen and paper, and wrote "The Battle Anthem of the Republic" in the gray dawn in one go."

Another famous example of writing in dreams is Tardini's "The Devil's Tremor". When he was old, Tardini told the astronomer Laland that he had a dream of selling 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 playing perfectly

When I wrote a beautiful sonata, I was very surprised, his marrying skills were completely beyond my imagination. I was very happy and completely impressed. I felt myself short of breath and woke up soon. Then I picked up the violin and tried to repeat the sound I heard. But it didn't work. The "Devil's Tremor" I wrote is my best work, but it is no better than the one I heard in my dream!"

Many writers have expressed their doubts about which concepts come from the state of consciousness when they are awake, and which concepts come from the state of sleep, and show that these two different states have been influencing each other. The British novelist Lawrence wrote to Edward Garnett this way:

"I can't judge that dreams are the result of my thoughts, or thoughts are the result of dreams. All of this is suspicious. However, my dreams make conclusions for me. They make the final decision, and I dream of the final decision. Sleep seems to balance my logical conclusion when there is no master, and provide the final conclusion in my dreams."

The British poet Kerricki also got the inspiration for his famous poem "Khubilai Khan" from his dream. One afternoon, he smoked some opium while reading a book, and soon fell asleep. Before he went to bed, he read a passage in the book: "Khubla Khan

He ordered people to build a palace here.” As a result, he had a colorful dream. In the dream, he not only saw forests, streams, strange rocks and strange rocks, but also seemed to have two or three hundred lines of verses in his mind. After waking up , He immediately swiped the book and wrote down the verse that seemed to be a real thing: "Khubla Khan is in the upper capital" / "The man was ordered to build a magnificent amusement palace / there, the sacred river / flowing through humans from Unexplored cave/until a black sea ", just as Kerricki wrote to line 54 in one breath, a visitor interrupted his poetry, and when he waited an hour later he picked up his pen to write again, the original inspiration But it disappeared like "the image above the flowing water".

As to why inventing and creating in dreams, scientific research has shown that this is due to the function of the right brain, because modern research has found that the right side of the brain is the ancestral brain, which not only transmits the wisdom of our ancestors to future generations, but also the right brain is The unconscious brain is also an energy-saving brain and an action brain. What's more amazing is that the right brain is 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 methods make it possess This is an extraordinary creative nature. Chen Tianyu wrote an article in the "Science World" magazine 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 carried out quite sufficient long-term and arduous research on a certain problem. They have stored a large amount of information needed to solve the problem in their minds, and they have entered into the "preparedness of everything, only the wind "The situation. Modern scientific research on dreams proves that the objects in dreams are mostly what the dreamer has experienced, seen, heard, and thought about before. This is what people often say "Thinking about day and dreaming at night", that is, dreams are a kind of "practice" reflection of people to the objective world. This kind of reflection will become the fuse for success.

Second, their cerebral cortex has formed a dominant excitement center for problem-solving. Dreaming is the continuation and development of the superior excitement center. In other words, during sleep, there is no high-level nerve activity in a certain part during the day, and it will continue in another way during sleep. Thus, sleeping and dreaming became a transformation after scientific research during the day. Through dreaming, the power of success is induced.

Third, their peculiar way of thinking. In sleep, brain nerve cells can clean up the things acquired during daytime study and research, process and transform the information that has been received and stored, and create new information. The acquisition of new information will solve the problem. At the same time, the reason why their dreams come true is an extremely important

The reason lies in the similarity between the dream and the research object. Since their level of understanding and generalization are much higher than those of ordinary people, they can be inspired and inspired by dreams, and it is easy to find breakthroughs in scientific research along the thinking trajectory of dreams.

Fourth, they consciously carried out the refinement and deepening process of "removing the rough and refined, removing the false and keeping the truth, from here to the other, from the outside to the inside". When people are awakened, their self-consciousness exists, and their conscious mental activities are logical. In the sleep state, people's self-awareness disappears, unconscious (ie subconscious) mental activities lack logic, and strange illusions appear in dreams. Therefore, dreams often lack science. Scientists have adopted a scientific attitude of "sublation" to dreams, not following dreams, but surpassing dreams, and achieving success with the help of dreams.

Fifth, scientists have scientifically verified the dream. Creative dreams often only provide foreboding and enlightenment of invention and creation. Whether it is correct or not requires experiments, inspections and demonstrations under the guidance of the spirit of science. Many scientists have confirmed his results in dreams only after experimental studies.

When a person is awake, due to various interferences from a large amount of external information, the mental state is highly stressed, which will hinder certain information.

Connect, process and create. In sleep, because various external information is temporarily suppressed, the mental tension is relaxed, some information is easy to communicate and new creation is obtained. 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 ideas of scientists and artists in their dreams are like runaway wild horses galloping across a broad field of knowledge, thus bypassing those insurmountable obstacles in the waking state and opening up certain information channels blocked by consciousness. This is possible. There are new discoveries or new inventions. Everyone knows that the subject of creative activity in dreams is, in the final analysis, proposed by lucid consciousness; any model created in dreams can only be completed through lucid consciousness... If you have any problems that cannot be solved, If you want to engage in a great creation, let's get some sleep first! Dreams will help you liberate your mind, dreams will open up broad ideas for you, and dreams may provide you with important enlightenment.

After knowing that dreams can also help invention and creation, we should also make it clear that dreams of inspiration do not always appear. It will only appear in your dreams at your request when your needs and desires come most urgently, and sometimes it will appear repeatedly until you fully remember it.