Have you ever had a problem you could not solve, but the solution later came to you in a dream?
In other words, have you ever had a life problem, work problem, technical problem, puzzle, etc. that baffled you and the solution eluded you for a period of time, and then all of a sudden, you went to sleep one night and dreamed the solution? Was the solution close to what you thought it might have been? Completely diffferent? Did you implement it and was it a successful?
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I can’t say as I recall actually dreaming a particular solution but I’ve often woken up with them. I’ve had dreams that have inspired solutions to difficult social conflicts but not necessarily by enacting the dream itself using it more as a stepping off point. In most of those cases they’ve been successful and usually seemed obvious enough to make me wonder why I didn’t come up with it earlier.
I read an interesting article about that recently but can’t seem to find it now but it was similar to this (http://www.webmd.com/sleep-disorders/news/20041223/dreams-can-solve-problems)
Like Kekulé ? No. I’ve often solved problems just as I was drifting off to, or waking up from, sleep & I’ve had interesting ideas in dreams that I later wrote down without laughing :) but no problem-solving insights have ever arrived in a dream.
This happens with the web development stuff I do. When I am extremely immersed in it, I often dream about the problem and occasionally come up with a solution.
I have done this several times, Maybe thats where the term “sleep on it” came from
It was too late to implement it. It came to me after the death of someone.
Not a dream always, but getting my mind completely away from the problem would often bring “a bolt from the blue”. I think that such things are analogous to a “writers block”; completely forgetting about it removes the pressure on that part of the brain or lets other connection paths come into play. Just uneducated guesses…
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