The Committee of Sleep: How Artists, Scientists, and Athletes Use Dreams for Creative Problem-Solving--And How You Can Too
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Crown Publishing Group (NY)
- Publish date: 12/01/2003
Description:
John Steinbeck wrote, "It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it". Research confirms this: Inspiration to create and solve problems to formal problems of logic can indeed arrive in dreams.
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The Committee of Sleep gathers remarkable instances, historical and modern, of the alchemy of dreams, including:
-- How Kubla Khan dreamt the design of his stately pleasure dome.
-- How Jasper Johns conceived in a dream the flag paintings that established him as a major artist.
-- How Frederick Banting isolated the hormone insulin after seeing the technique in a dream.
-- How John Sayles conceived Brother from Another Planet through serial dreaming.
Here is a compelling investigation of how artists and scientists foster creativity through dreaming -- including lucid dreams -- but also a useful source of ideas for readers who want to use their own dreams to solve thorny problems.
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