Have you had a dream that changed your life in some way? A dream that sent you a message?
Are there any examples of dreams guiding people? There are plenty. The first one that pops to my mind is that of James D. Watson, the man who partnered with Francis Crick to discover the structure of DNA in 1953. Watson and Crick had been puzzled about how the various protein strands that make up DNA could fit together. After puzzling it over for a long time, Watson went to bed one night and had a dream of two snakes who slithered together and twisted themselves around each other. When he awoke, Watson realized his dream had given him the answer - the two strands of DNA twisted around each other in a "double helix." The discovery of the DNA model has been called the most important scientific discoveries of the 20th Century.
Paul McCartney said that the song Yesterday came to him in a dream. When we woke he wrote it all down while having breakfast*. He was afraid he had just remembered a song that someone else had already written, and so for two weeks we sang it to everyone he knew and asked them if they had ever heard it before. When he was sure it was his own creation, he recorded it with his band, the Beatles, and it became a Number one hit. Yesterday has been named the best pop song of the 20th Century by both MTV and Rolling Stone Magazine, and holds the Guinness World Record as the most recorded song of all time.
* In his dream McCartney heard the music, but not the words. He had to write the words later, so over breakfast he just used any words that came to him. The first version he wrote was called Scrambled Eggs.
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