Have you ever dreamed a solution to a problem you were having?

The scenario is that you are having a problem of some kind when you go to sleep, and while you are sleeping, your subconscious mind continues to “work” on the problem.

You either wake up immediately with the memory of the dream (and the solution to the problem that was bothering you), or when you wake up at your normal time, you just seem to know what the answer to your problem is, and realize that you solved it in your sleep.

That has happened to me on more than one occasion, and it never fails to astound me when it does. Because of that, I keep a notepad and ink pen next to my bed, to write things down as soon as I wake up. The late comedic genius Johnny Carson told his TV audience that sometimes he would dream-up jokes for his monolgues and wake up laughing hysterically, quickly write down the joke that he dreamed, then go right back to sleep. He said, “Then, when I finally do get up for the day, I read what I have written, and it makes absolutely no sense, whatsoever.”

So, have you ever fallen asleep with a problem on your mind, and discovered when you woke up, that the problem had been solved, while you were dreaming about it?