There's research out there that supports dreams as places we process emotions. I wouldn't be surprised if that tied in to other kinds of problems.
It was a completely random series of notes.
Here's the pearl of wisdom I captured for posterity:
"Emotions — it's emotions that invented and fricasseed the invisible ravioli."
(I still have the card.)
I wonder if I did compose them, or did I just have a memory of having composed a great song?
What is experience, if not our very latest memory, right?
I made noises with my mouth, and it still sounded cool. Instead of recording those noises into any recording on my phone, I went back to sleep and couldn’t remember it the next morning :(
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/when-keith-ric...
On Saturday I already had some ideas for most problems, but there was one that I didn't knew how to approach and stayed a bit late thinking about it.
On Sunday morning I woke up really exited as I solved the damn problem. I immediately knew that probably like dreams, the memory was fragile, so I rushed to my desk to write the sketch for the idea, which after grabbing coffee turned into my solution to it.
There's no way I didn't spent my sleep thinking about it and solving it, likely around the last sleep cycle when I woke up.
The closest I've come since is involuntary obsessions with playing video games in my dreams. Not something I'd ever want to seed. Quite the opposite, in fact.
generally they don't work out.