The Dream and Inspiration

Just over 100 years ago Frank Baum was reading a bedtime story to his boys when suddenly the entire story of the Wizard of Oz popped into his head. He wrote furiously as the ideas came in. He ran out of paper and started to write on the back of envelopes.

A few decades later JK Rowling woke up from a nap on a delayed train from Manchester going into London England. At that moment all the ideas for Harry Potter, including rumored the last line in the books, started popping into her head. In an interview she did with Oprah she talked about how all the characters and all the places or flooding into her head and she did not have a pen and a piece of paper to write it down.

I wrote about these and many other stories that were similar in a book called inspired the paranormal world of creativity. It is a fascinating read of where many of the great novels, inventions, Nobel prizes, and music came from.

Last night I had my own experience that ran along the same storyline. It came in a dream. It was by far and away the most complex dream I have ever had. It was like a movie and then a movie within the movie in a movie within that movie. It was the type of movie or you sit on the edge of your seat the entire time. When the dream ended Anne I realized it had been a dream I was absolutely amazed at the ability of consciousness to seamlessly string all this together in a matter of minutes.

I don't remember much in terms of details, as I chose when I woke up to simply allow the dream to fade back to where did come from. I figured it would be a better use of my time to just say thank you and to marvel. This was a revelation about consciousness that I doubt I will ever fully forget.

So here the day after I string together what I remember. Although it is not much I can absolutely assure you that this movie would have been a box office hit. The key ended up being the last words that were spoken to me as the dream ended where someone said “not bad eh.” It. was much better than not bad. I am so lucky to have had the experience.

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