Dreams & Pattern Recognition

[Guest]

That's it exactly.

It's like your somewhere between waking and sleeping worlds.

I wish I could do that.

My dreams aren't helpful in that manner.

They are usually just uncomfortable and sometimes disturbing.

 

[neonlyte]

That is truly fascinating. I've never done anything like that.

The first one made me £5,000 - thirty years ago that was a lot of money. It was for an energy saving device, the company that bought it promptly put it in a drawer

The second patent was withdrawn by the UK government as being too important to be held by a single entity. The idea is now being developed by a number of UK companies, with government support.

You can have bright ideas, but you can't necessarily make money out of them.

For me, it is a reoccuring theme, I mull over problems for a long time and the solution comes together once I've reached the stage where the problem overwhelms consciousness. In the context of dream, whether the dream state leads to the solution or provides the relief to allow me (awake) to reach a solution, I can't honestly be sure. I only recognise the pattern, and it's the same with writing. I wrote an 80,000 NaNo novel in six weeks. I'm editing it now, it's a complicated mystery story, multiple threads. I remember writing it, I don't remember how I formed the plot.