Dreams promise innovation. We’ve been told they’re the secret portal to masterpieces. The door to multi-million-dollar business ideas. From the Theory of Relativity to Twilight, dreams are the creator.
Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein after a nightmare about a mechanical man. Elias Howe dreamed of cannibals waving pointed sticks. In the morning he invented the sewing machine. Even in the Bible, Joseph (of the amazing technicolor dream-coat) was blessed by dreams that led him to greatness.
Google famously burst into being when a 22-year graduate dreamed he had downloaded the whole internet. Larry Page’s night-time vision formed the basis of an algorithm. The code went on to underlie the (once) most popular website in the world.
“When a really good dream shows up, grab it!” — Larry Page
Look at the gifts bequeathed on the lucky sleepers throughout history.
Naturally, many of us are keen to put our own dreams to work.