dreams that forever changed society

Albert Einsteins Theory of Relativity changed the world of physics and it came from a dream. Einstein dreamt he was sledding down a mountain, ever increasing speed until he nearly reached the speed of light. He noticed the stars looked different and this observation led him to the mathematics by which he figured out the famous formula.

Yes, even the idea for our biggest search engine came from dreams. Founder Larry Page dreamt of Google, seeing that he & Sergey Brin could make a business by downloading the entire web onto computers.

Like it or hate it, twilight changed the way pop culture saw vampires. Stephenie Meyer, author of the best selling Twilight series, had the idea for vampires come to her in a dream specifically for the human vampire love relationships and where vampire skin sparkled when in the sun but didnt burn.

What would the literary world be without Frankenstein? Author Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley dreamt up the idea for Frankenstein after Lord Byron (a fellow poet she was visiting) challenged his guests to write a ghost story. She dreamt of the moment when the mad scientist brought Frankenstein to life and, the following morning, began writing the chilling tale.

Beyond having the most covers of any song in history, The Beatless song Yesterday came to Paul McCartney while dreaming. He woke up with the music in his head and wrote it out on the piano next to him.

Honest Abe dreamt of his own assassination just a few days before how freaky is that?! He dreamt he could hear sad wailing in the White House and, in getting up and trying to find it, finally came upon a room with mourners and his own corpse

The sewing machine was invented in 1845. Elias Howe had a dream he was taken prisoner by men with spears ready to do him in. Looking at their spears as they were nearly upon him, he noticed a hole at the spears points. By the next day, this breakthrough led him to develop the missing link in his sewing machine.

Famous golfer Jack Nicklaus lost his groove in 1964, shooting games easily in the 70s. After seeing a problem with his holding of the club in a dream, he corrected it the next day and his game improved significantly.

Well known among mathematicians, Indian Srinivasa Ramanujan is said to have published over 3,000 theorems. He claimed Hindu goddess Namagiri would appear in his dreams and tell him new formulas.

One of the greatest scientific discoveries of all time was the discovery of DNAs structure. Dr. James Watson had a dream involving two snakes intertwined with heads at the opposite ends, leading to his consideration of a double helix.