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Can't say I have had such a productive dream for work, but I have had dreams that helped me process emotions. For example, on separate occasions many years apart (thankfully), I've dreamt I saw a recently departed pet or family member one more time. In one specific instance, I had been so caught up in other things I hadn't actually processed the grief of the loss. Can safely say it was super helpful, if painful, and necessary.

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.

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When I was young, I dreamt that I was playing guitar and made up a cool song. When I woke up I was so excited, that's something you would hear an old rockstar say about their best song, right? "Came to me in a dream". I jumped out of bed, grabbed the guitar, and started playing the song, every note still clear in my memory.

It was a completely random series of notes.

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Many years ago I had such a profound insight in one of my dreams that I woke up and wrote it down on an index card so I wouldn't forget.

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.)

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William James reported that a friend of his who was experimenting with nitrous oxide gas kept thinking he'd solved the riddle of the universe when high, but kept forgetting what he'd figured out when he woke up in the morning, so he kept a pen and paper next to him while high and rushed down the following morning to see that he'd written "A smell of petroleum prevails throughout."
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Love your pearl of wisdom. Don't know if this was the intent, but it made me laugh despite feeling a bit sad today.
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At least you now have a title for your autobiography!
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I often have the experience that I've discovered a really good idea in a dream. It happens often enough that I recognize it as a dream and I become curious about whether it will actually be a good idea when I wake up, because almost as often it is random and silly. I spend the rest of the dream intent on remembering it, and usually I do. Every once in a while I get a melody or an idea I want to run with, but it always makes me excited and ready to work.
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Yea, I have composed song (music with lyrics) in my dream. But after waking up, didn't remember most of it.

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?

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A fee years ago, I woke up in the middle of the night with a very cool sounding riff playing in my head for a song that I was thinking about at that time. I am not a musician and that would be my first, if I would recruit enough help.

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 :(

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That's why Keith Richards kept a tape recorder on his bedside table. He credits it with capturing the famous riff for "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction," which came to him in a dream.

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/when-keith-ric...

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Giuseppe Tartini claimed his violin sonata "Il trillo del diavolo" (Devil's trill) was played to him by the devil itself during a dream. However, unlike you, Tartini declared that he had been able to capture only a small part of the music.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devil%27s_Trill_Sonata

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I have made poetry in some dreams which feels very profound and very rhyming (I have zero poeticness or interest in poetry) but I also remember that a few times when I did wake up with those words still in my head, it was a mish mash of words.
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Richard James did an album of these using synthesizers to record from memory and lucid dreaming to compose.
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Selected Ambient Works!
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the 2nd one only
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“Richard James” ok dude do you live in his submarine? Just call him Aphex Twin
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At uni on an advanced algorithms class we had a take-home exam with 6 problems for 3 days or so.

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.

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Had a very similar one, I wasn't working frontend but had a dream about a frontend vulnerability that also proved to be true. I dreamed about it, and assume it was because it's the kind of thing that bugs me and while dreaming I had some time to think about things other than the code at hand.
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I think it was franklin who would ponder himself to sleep with metal balls in his hands so it'll wake him up.
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Thomas Edison.
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Did you try to harness this power again? I.e. seed your dreams to solve problems?
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Only in my dreams! erm...

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.

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i've had an experience at the cross section of the two where I dreamt factorio optimizations after obsessive play.

generally they don't work out.

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so cool. that happens to me with music a lot.
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