10 creative breakthroughs committed in a dream

1. Periodic Table Mendeleeva



It is said that Dmitri Mendeleev worked for three days with no rest before allowed himself to close his eyes for a few minutes. And rather than fall asleep at seventeen hours, as would happen with most sleep deprived people Mendeleev dreamed circuit arrangement of elements that forever changed the world of chemistry, and jumped twenty minutes to write it.

"I dreamed of a table in which all of the elements took their strictly certain place. Waking up, I immediately wrote it on a piece of paper ... Only in one place then had to be amended ».

2. «Yesterday»



Paul McCartney was 22 when he "woke up with a nice little tune in my head," and I thought, "That's great, but what is it?».

He stood up and easy to pick up the melody on the piano, but he was sure that just heard this song a few years ago and remembered it subconsciously. When after a while it turned out that it was his own melody, McCartney sketched humorous lyrics: «Scrambled eggs, oh, my baby, how I love your legs» («Scrambled eggs, a baby how I love your legs.") .

This text, of course, came later.

3. Monster Frankenshteyna



Mary Shelley was bored with her husband, Percy Bysshe, Lord Byron, and several other well-known literary creators, when they decided to make a small literary competition.

Mary was in a creative stupor - until you went to bed, and she was not a dream, "an eerie vision of the corpse of a man who started to show signs of life when earned a powerful engine, and he began to move with heavy inanimate movements».

Her creative stupor passed, Shelly decided that "If it scared me - scared and others; and everything that I needed - it is only to describe the monster that I dreamed my nightmares midnight ».

4. Jekyll and Hayd



Robert Louis Stevenson once faced with the same problem: the story did not want to develop.

He knew he wanted to write about the dual nature of man, but he did not have any idea how to set about it, and he was depressed by the fact that the head does not appear a suitable plot. And then he closed his eyes.

"On the second night I had a dream: the scene in the box, which is then divided into two, one of them tried to escape Hyde after some crimes. He grabbed some powder, and suddenly changed the face of their persecutors ».

5. A series of "Twilight"



No matter whether you are a fan of stories about longing and inflated bloodsucking werewolves, you have to admit that Stephenie Meyer has managed to create something to impress her readers. And it owes the catchy single bed.

"I saw two people on a small circular meadow in the rays of bright sunshine. One of them was a beautiful, sparkling young man, and the other - an ordinary girl, and they were talking, "she said in an interview in 2009. "The young man was a vampire, it was pretty weird, and he tried to explain to her how much he worries about her, and at the same time - how much he wanted to kill her».

Yes, this "Twilight". Meyer recorded her dream, because, in her words, it is so very different from her everyday life of mother and housewife, she wanted to keep it. "I just really wanted to remember. That's why I started to write it down - I do not think that this could be the basis for the novel ».

6. Nekronomikon



HP Lovecraft saw his famous "Book of the Dead" in a dream, including - and its fancy name.

What he did not see - so it is the value of this book: he did not have any idea what this strange word, but just in case recorded it. His attempt to transfer him about the Greek resulted in "the legitimate dead».

Perhaps it indirectly (or directly) was inspired by a poem of the first century BC under the name "Astronomican».

7. Terminator



Looks like you bezemotsionalny cyborg assassin who looks like Arnold Schwarzenegger, a nightmare for you? It was a nightmare for James Cameron.

He struggled with high fever when he was in a dream image of a robot, tightening himself on the floor with a knife in his hand. Incidentally, the best idea to Cameron seems to come in a dream, this is how he came up with, and Avatar.

8. needle sewing mashinki



Elias Howe, inventor of the modern sewing machine, faced with a problem - how to make it work for a needle in his new invention. The hole in the base of the needle (as in hand-held needles) is not suitable.

Then, wrote the magazine "Popular Mechanics" in 1905, he fell asleep:

"Once he dreamed that he builds a sewing machine in a strange country for cruel king. The king gave him 24 hours to complete the car and make it work, but no matter how much he tried, nothing worked, and he finally gave in.

At dawn he was taken to the scaffold, and at this point, as often happens in moments of great crisis, he clearly saw that spear accompanying soldiers have holes near the tip. He realized that this is the solution to the problem of the sewing machine needle. He began to beg for more time - and at this point awake. The time was 4:00 am. He dressed quickly and went to his studio - in 9:00 model of a needle with a hole at the end was ready ».

9. DNK



The shape and structure of DNA eluded scientists until 1953, when Dr. James Watson had a dream that navёl him the idea of ​​the double helix. According to the history of Indiana University, the alma mater of Dr. Watson, he dreamed of two intertwined snakes with their heads at opposite ends, but others argue that it was the vision of the two-way spiral staircase.

10. "Misery" by Stephen Kinga



If the authors of bestsellers were an example to us, we all ought to take their worst nightmares and turn them into action novels.

For example, Kathy Bates break your leg with a sledgehammer. "Misery," according to Stephen King originally dreamed of in his plane. "I dreamed of a woman who kept in custody of the writer, and then killed him, skinned, fed his remains to their pigs, and twisted romance in his skin. I said to myself, "I have to write this story." Of course, the story has changed a bit in the process. But I wrote the first 40 or 50 pages directly on the landing, sitting on the stairs between the first and second floors of the hotel ».

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