Top 10 Discoveries Made in Dreams


All of the schools know the story that he saw his famous Mendeleev table in a dream. Some argue that it is not true: just working on the table, Mendeleev very little sleep, and in recent days was in the semi-somnabulicheskom, half-excitation state. Nevertheless, the history of Mendeleev - the only one.

Saint Mesrob, the Armenian alphabet, argued that the alphabet in a dream showed him an angel.

Saint Mesrob, the Armenian alphabet, argued that the alphabet in a dream showed him an angel.


Descartes once dreamed of an open book. In the dream, the spirit of Descartes convinced that his life is intended to show that mathematical principles are applicable in the study of nature and can benefit tremendously.


German chemist Friedrich Kekule dreamed of a snake biting its own tail itself. After this dream Kekle proposed structure of the benzene molecule.


Friedrich Burdach dreamed of the idea of ​​circulation.
Otto Loewi, Nobel laureate, he dreamed of cardiac nerve transmission of impulses.
There are memories of Niels Bohr about his dream about the structure of the atom - the nucleus and electrons in the way he dreamed of the solar system with rotating planets.
Son of Frederick Banting of the experiment, which he then held, led to the discovery of insulin.
The greatest mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan in India claimed that all his discoveries came to him in a dream of a Hindu goddess Namagiri (one of the incarnation of Lakshmi). In his dreams, she wrote the equation.
Soviet aircraft designer Oleg Antonov, had a dream and wake up sketched the shape of an aircraft tail of a giant "Antaeus."
Elias Howe, created in 1845 by a sewing machine, long before it suffered, not knowing how to position the eye of a needle so that the string hung on the opposite side of the fabric. Once he dreamed that he was surrounded by a dance of the savages, who took him prisoner. They were dancing around, brandishing their spears, and he noticed that the spears are just below the ear tip. When he awoke, he moved the needle's eye to the opposite end of the needle - to the tip, and the problem was solved.