National Dream Day | Dreams Are All Around Us!

Happy Dream Day! Isn’t it amazing? Did humans always have the ability to dream? Not just the kind that are dreamt in slumber but also the dreams that fuel creativity, inspire better living for ourself and others or shape a new passion that we can build a life around. Creating goals and a vision for the future based on a dream of something that we anticipate enough to see it, smell it, know it and carve out a path of steps in how we get to live this dream in real life. The ability to make our dreams come true seems to be unique to the human experience and a key element to our pursuit of happiness. So, it seems significant that we spend an entire day honoring dreams.

Dreaming not just impacts the fuel that drives our passions and creativity; it also impacts all aspects of our life even if simply by observing the world around us. Major authors have credited their literary contributions to the power of dreaming. Examples include: “Kubla Khan” which was written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge in 1797, “Frankenstein” by Mary Shelley in 1818, and “Twilight” by Stephanie Meyer in 2005. 

Music honors dreaming by song pieces. "To Dream the Impossible Dream” and more are written by many of the greats from Roy Orbison to Aerosmith to Fleetwood Mac and Neil Young. They all have written and recorded powerful, successful music on the subject of dreaming.

Throughout history, scientists have credited dreams with major scientific breakthroughs from the structure of the atom to the smart phone. Descartes credited a series of dreams for revealing his life's purpose to study science and seek wisdom. His writings devoted time and reflection to the discussion of dreaming and its difference from reality as we may understand it. He reflected a genuine doubt that dreams, sensory deception and even our thoughts could influence the reality of a person. Descartes's philosophy changed the way educated Europeans thought. His ideas helped spread rationalism and skepticism. A chemist, Dimitri Mendeleev, credited a dream with a structure of the periodic table of elements after multiple failed attempts.

Not to mention the incredible contributions of art, in all variations of media, related to and drawn from dreams. From Alrecht Durer’s 1525 piece called “Dream Vision” to Salvador Dali’s “The Dream Approaches” in 1932 and Henri Rousseau “The Sleeping Gypsy” and countless others.

Movies and great theatrical pieces also credit dreams for bringing them into existence. Director James Cameron said he was inspired by a fever-dream in 1984 to create characters for “Terminator”. The list of dream-inspired works - literary, theatrical, musical and scientific - is long. It can't ever be fully complete. Whether it be in fiction, sci-fi, documentary style, biography, or all other works, creativity benefits from a dream of conception or the dream of creation.

As an author, I also give credit to the dream of sharing: sharing the joy of creating with my team, sharing my love of romance and murder with readers and sharing a legacy of quality literature for the next generation. It is through this dream that I (and my words) connect with my reader. Whether I am dreaming up a new idea, a new character, or a new world, or new stories, the vision of sharing these with you helps me to capture that moment, translate it to paper and eventually to put into YOUR hands. Yes, you, my reader.

So today, I'm celebrating DREAMS - Both awake and asleep, big and little, serious and silly, stoic and creative. I celebrate each of these and I encourage you to join me. May all your dreams be bold, creative, fun, fruitful, and may all your dreams all come true!

Until next time,

Written by M. G. Lorraine

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