- - Stephen King(In an interview with Naomi Epel for her book Writers
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Dreams
have been accountable for causing very significant events in history.
The historical works of dreams involve innovative breakthroughs,
decision-making, and notable precognitions. These phenomena have been
arduously interpreted by numerous dream researchers and experts.
These include the Frankenstein, the Beatles song “Yesterday”, and
the dream-based writings of the novelist Stephen King.
As
one of the most read novel of all time, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
has gained fame in every part of the world. The novel’s
entertaining plots are not only limited within its contents, but also
beyond them: the mystical origin of the novel. According to the
brilliantdreams.com, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley has narrated the
background of the novel, how she come up with such a brilliant story,
in the introduction of the Frankenstein. As Mary Shelley described,
in the summer of 1816, while she was still nineteen years old, she
and her lover visited a poet named Lord Byron who challenged them,
together with the other guests, to write their own ghost stories.
While Mary was working on her own story, she fell into a vision with
her eyes shut. “I saw the pale student of unhallowed arts
kneeling beside the thing he had put together. I saw the hideous
phantasm of a man stretched out, and then, on the working of some
powerful engine, show signs of life, and stir with an uneasy,
half-vital motion. Frightful must it be; for supremely frightful
would be the effect of any human endeavor to mock the stupendous
Creator of the world.” (www.brilliantdreams.com)
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She
woke up in terror. The dreamed idea kept running inside her mind and
the repetition of such memory kept on frightening her. While trying
to deviate her attention to something else in order to get rid of
that fearful dream, the ghost story recurred to her. “I have
found it! What terrified me will terrify others; and I need only
describe the specter which had haunted me in my midnight pillow,”
Mary Shelley wrote in the novel’s introduction. And that lead to
her Frankenstein, an artistically written dream-based story.
Another
dream-credited career was Paul McCartney’s. As one of the most
famous singers and songwriters of all time, Paul McCartney has gained
popularity in every man’s melody across the world. According to the
said site, Paul McCartney was staying in an attic room of his
family’s house on Wimpole Street when he dreamed of a sound of a
classical string ensemble playing a lovely tune. When he woke up, he
tried to put the lovely tune into musical notes through the use of
the piano next to him. Then, gradually, he finished the tune with all
the chords needed to produce each of its sound, and that lead to the
most performed song in the world entitled “Yesterday”.
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Paul
McCartney was amazed with the music he came up with for his band, the
Beatles. He admitted that he has not written anything like that
before, but what was magnificent was that he had the tune, and that
made the magic worked. Truly, dreams served as the
way towards the revelation of genius ideas. But what is magnificent
in those dreams is not the revelation, but the application. Many
accounts have proven that dreams do have a purpose, and that the
dreamer’s responsibility is to live with that purpose.
Another
career accounted to dreams is Stephen Kings’ road towards success.
The novelist credited some of his works to his dreams. Stephen King
is well-known in the field of horror novels, and the miseries
prevalent in his works were not inspired by real-life incidents, but
rather, by dream-based stories. In an interview with Stan Nichollsfor the SFX Magazine, Stephen said that while he was on a plane,
he dreamed about a woman who held a writer captive and killed him,
skinned him, fed the remains of the writer to her pig and bound his
novel in his own skin.
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“I
said to myself, 'I have to write this story.' Of course, the plot
changed quite a bit in the telling. But I wrote the first forty or
fifty pages right on the landing here, between the ground floor and
the first floor of the hotel." (www.brilliantdreams.com)
As
Stephen has put it into words during the interview, he said that for
him as a writer, dreaming is like seeing something on the street
which can add up to his fiction. “Writers are scavengers by
nature," Stephen said. Dreams do provide
solutions and teach some points on certain aspects of a person’s
life, but they do not offer these things for no reason. Dreams make
known to a person all the things that he needs to be aware of, and
one’s task is to apply these things. Finally, after the
application, the history will write the dreamer’s story.
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