If you are a reading of EsotericDaily.com, then you know the importance of dreams. And here I go again trying to relate their importance. For those not familiar with my dream history, here is an overview: I once posted a post in a dream; and don't know when, where, or how. Then I wrote about how an old friend who died some years before, came to me in a dream and asked me to lie down on futon beside him. Which I didn't, and know if I had I would have died. I told him "I'm not ready," and didn't die down beside him.
Of the hundreds of dreams I've interpreted, my favorite is Dream #689. In that dream I cross the infamous "bridge" we all come across in our dreams. If you haven't crossed you dream bridge yet, please do. In simple terms, the bridge in your dream is that person, job, or faith in your life that is holding you back. Once you awaken to that, you will live.
Today, I want to write about people who woke up from sleep with a new life. Yes, it happens.
Caedmon, (c. 657-684), wrote the oldest surviving English language poem, which wikipedia deciphers as :
Now [we] shall honour / heaven-kingdom's guardian,
the measurer's might / and his mind's plan,
the work of the father of glory / as he of each wonder,
eternal lord, / the origin established, he first created / for the children of men
heaven for a roof, / holy creator.
Then Middle-earth / mankind's guardian,
eternal Lord, / after bestowed
the lands to men, / Lord almighty.
Caedmon was an illiterate herdsman, who went to sleep one night, and in his dream a stranger appeared to him singing the “verses which he had
never heard.” When Caedmon awoke, he was a poet and wrote his very educated poems.
That's not all, a google search will given you many others, of which here are a few:
Elias Howe (inventor of the sewing machine):
Struggling to design a functional sewing machine needle, Howe
reportedly had a dream in which he was being attacked by cannibals with
spears that had holes near the tips. This image inspired him to place
the needle's eye near its point, enabling the invention of the modern
sewing machine.
Dmitri Mendeleev (creator of the Periodic Table):
After days of working on organizing the known elements, Mendeleev is
said to have fallen asleep at his desk and dreamed of a table where all
the elements fell into place according to their properties.
Friedrich August Kekulé (discoverer of the benzene ring structure): Kekulé is said to have envisioned the cyclic structure of benzene in a daydream, seeing a snake biting its own tail.
Albert Einstein (developer of the Theory of Relativity):
Legend has it that Einstein's dreaming of sledding down a mountainside
at high speeds, causing the stars to change, contributed to his
realization that the same event could be observed differently from
different perspectives, according to Reader's Digest Asia.
Frederick Banting (discoverer of insulin):
Banting's dream about an experiment with a dog's pancreas and isolating
the substance that could treat diabetes reportedly spurred the
development of insulin.
Otto Loewi (discoverer of chemical neurotransmission):
Loewi dreamed of an experiment involving a frog's heart that helped him
demonstrate the chemical transmission of nerve impulses, leading to his
Nobel Prize win.
That's all I have to share today, so dream, for life is but a dream.
