Dream - The key to creativity

Nguyen Qua Khai (synthesized)

Dreams are high-end thinking products of people, expressed during sleep. There are dreams that make people happy and hopeful. There are dreams that make many people disappointed, anxious, worried. There are also many dreams that have become the key to opening the door to inventions and creativity.

The wonders of dreams

According to statistics, for an average person, the average sleep each night can go through 4-6 different long and short dreams. A person who lives up to 60 years old often has a 5-year " sleepy " state, or 43,800 hours of living with a dream. As a result, the scene in the dream took place like all things, extremely rich. Unfortunately, many of the miracles that people create in dreams are just illusions, most of them dissipate when people wake up.

However, not all virtual dreams are thus destroyed. For those who do long-term intellectual research or focus on transitional thinking, dreams can become a hunch of many inventions and inventions. In other words, many people can develop inventions and creativity right in their dreams.

There have been many interesting examples from this time to this point. French mathematician René Descartes (1536-1650), in the night of November 10, 1619 alone, had three dreams including a special dream, showing him how to open a natural science treasure. : Arithmetic application into geometry. Thus Descartes had a suggestion to later establish analytic geometry theory. And it was on November 10, 1619 that was considered the birth date of analytic geometry.

There was an important dream that occurred on a night in February 1869, related to the 'Constitution of the chemical kingdom'. At that time, scientists discovered 63 chemical elements but did not know how to arrange them although they all thought that they must be arranged according to a certain rule. After a hard day's work, the Russian chemist Dimitry Ivanovich Mendeleyev (1834-1907) fell asleep and dreamed. In the dream he saw a tabloid page with many cells, and at the same time saw the chemical elements flooding each other into each appropriate box. He woke up, hurriedly took a pen to record the idea of ​​setting up a table with boxes that arranged chemical elements according to a rule. From that idea, he came up with the Periodic Table of Chemical Elements, which we often refer to as the Mendeleyev Periodic Table.

The Danish physicist Niels Bohr (1885-1962) had a night of dreaming that he was standing in the sun with hot air, in front of planets whirling and wriggling right next to him. It was the same form in the dream that inspired him to create the model of atomic structure that we often call the Bohr atom model.

Again, the German chemist August Ketufe (1829-1896), while still asleep, beside the stove, was so tired of the research that there was a strange dream about a snake and circles. This dream helped him discover the molecular structure of the Benzene organic compound (C ₆ H ₆ ) as a ring structure.

Danish physicist Niels Bohr (1885-1962) - (Photo: Cuny.edu)

More than unconsciousness, Cannon physiologist also gave himself the habit of thinking in dreams. He often brought questions that he thought into his dreams and the next morning, when he woke up, he found an answer. He said: 'For a long time, I have relied on the process of the work of subconsciousness to help me solve the problem. For example, when I prepare a talk, I first outline a simple outline. Then for the next few nights, I used to calm down in my dreams and print as my coherent references to my outlined syllabus, along with appropriate words and new ideas. batch ' .

At Cambridge University, England, conducted a survey of scholars with many inventions and innovations, up to 70% of scholars thought that their creative activity was more or less based on suggestions that appear in the dream. University of Geneve Switzerland has also conducted many investigations for famous mathematicians. As a result, 51 out of 60 mathematicians answered that many problems were answered in their dreams. Even artists and writers, many people also say that they have received ideas from their dreams.

For example, Beatles singer Paul McCartney said he woke up with his song ' Yesterday ' in his head. Writer Mary Shelley said she had a vivid, vivid dream of a scientist using a machine to create a living creature. When she woke up, she immediately wrote a circuit of a science fiction book about a scientist named Frankenstein who created a terrible monster. As for poet Ly Bach (1701-1762, Tang Dynasty in China) because he dreamed that he was traveling on a list of poems and wrote on the immortal verse of the poem "The dream of the goddess of old immersion" soak away a poem for a farewell) . Psychologists call dreams that appear suggestions for people of this type as 'intuition's dream'.

Beatles singer Paul McCartney (Photo: Gibson.com)

'How to do it, the dream night does'

Dreams often appear at the ' rapid phase ' of sleep. At this time, the cerebral cortex is often affected by factors such as memories, everyday life experiences . leading to dreams related to real life, to problems that are entangled in life. . Therefore, people have the phrase "How do the night of dreaming do it "? For scientists or intellectuals in general, when they are awake, they are always engrossed in their thoughts and research. Therefore, at the time of sleep, there may be mystical visions that promote their daytime creative process to succeed. That's because when sleeping, most neurons are in an inhibitory state, but the problems of " contemplating the brain " still remain in the brain, making certain nerve cells still in a manic state. chalk, more than that is quite lively and so happens 'the dream of intuition'.

Strictly speaking, for the creative successes gained from the dream, the first one must still mention what is beyond dreams. If there is no hard working process, hard work, long-term research, the dream cannot be stimulated. Only a tireless search specialist can dig up the potential for thinking, from which flashes of wisdom. In this regard, Descartes was right when he said: 'Only the minds who have prepared themselves will find new discoveries in the dream.' In fact, during most of the winter of 1619, Descartes' mind was always lost in the thought of choosing the path he had to take. So he could grasp the key to open a great creative invention.

A dream can empower you to go beyond the known and unknown things to create things that seem impossible. The French psychologist Francis Bacon had an advice: 'Everyone should have a pencil in their pockets so that at any time they can record ideas that appear only in dreams'. Wish you soon get the god key in your dream!