History Was Made in Dreams

History was made in dreams.

Anecdotal evidence suggests that history was made in dreams. Dreams are often the incubators where ideas mature and materialize. If you are comfortable utilizing your intuition in this form, please do. Here are some examples from our history.

* Hannibal Barca was a Carthaginian general, known for his fighting against Rome during the 2nd Punic War in 218 BCE. The reason why he crossed Alps with his 38 elephants and other troops to invade Rome was due to his night dream. He had just executed it.

* Julius Caesar dreamed about incest with his own mother (symbol of territorial conquer) in 49BCE. He then decided to cross the River Rubicon. Three months later he conquered all of Italy.

* On 312CE, Roman Emperor Constantine the Great was outnumbered and faced his enemy Maxentius, his own brother. When he was worshipping Baal he apparently saw a sign of a cross and heard a voice “in this sign conquer”.  He won the battle backed up by “the force” and owned Rome. His conversion to Christianity had taken place, and in 313CE, he publicly stopped persecutions against the Christians.

* In 1300 CE, Dante (Durante degli Alighieri) wrote his major poem “Divine Comedy” which was a story based on his dream. After his death, a part of his original writing was lost in 1321CE. While Dante’s son dreamed about his father, Dante told his son where to search for the original writing in the dream. Upon awaking, the son searched exactly at the location of which Dante told him in the dream.  He successfully found and recovered the original.

* Friedrich August Kekulé was born in Darmstadt, Germany. While living in London, Kekulé had a vision on the bus ride, so he proposed that carbon has tetravalent (4-bonds). It was the idea of a carbon framework of modern organic chemistry. On an 1865 evening, he dozed off and dreamed that a chain of atoms reached around and grabbed onto it’s own tail, creating a ring. He discovered the structure of benzene molecule in a dream.

* Albert Einstein had a dream that led to his famous theory. While he was in a dream, he was descending faster and faster on the slope of mountain. When the descending speed became close to the speed of light, stars in the sky looked different. After waking up, Einstein thought about the meaning of his dream and proposed his Theory of General Relativity.

* Jack Nicklaus is a golf legend. When he was struggling with his scores, he dreamed about his golf. He was playing great in his dream, but he noticed that his club grip and swing form were different from his recent way of playing. Upon waking up, he copied the play in his dream and applied it to his current play. His scores improved immediately.

* The Double-Helix, the model of DNA structure was presented in the journal “Nature” by James Watson and Francis Crick in 1953. Francis Crick dreamed about the structure, but he forgot an important portion of the dream. He made great a effort to recall the dream but was not successful. One night, he dreamed the same structured DNA again. He made a sketch immediately after his awaking. The Double-Helix DNA structure was born.

Consider that the above examples are just a tip of iceberg. You can imagine how important your dreams are! In one view, these people remain in history simply because they respected their own intuition.