SOME FAMOUS DREAMS
These exampl es are included simply to show how influential dreams can be. If this is so in deali ng with s uch thi ngs as i nventions, songs, etc. – just im agine the impact and im portance of those that are God -gi ven!
Paul McCartney is one of the most famous modern songwriters of all time. According to the Guinness Book of Records, his Beatles song "Yesterday" has the most cover versions of any song ever written and, according to record label BMI, was performed over seven million times during in the 20th century.
The tune for "Yesterday" came to Paul McCartney in a dream...the story goes like this: The Beatles were in London in 1965 filming one of their movies called Help! and McCartney was staying in a small attic room of his family's house on Wimpole Street. One morning, in a dream he heard a classical string ensemble playing, and, as McCartney tells it:
"I woke up with a lovely tune in my head. I thought, 'That's great, I wonder what that is?' There was an upright piano next to me, to the right of the bed by the window. I got out of bed, sat at the piano, found G, found F sharp minor 7th - and that leads you through then to B to E minor, and finally back to E. It all leads forward logically. I liked the melody a lot, but because I'd dreamed it, I couldn't believe I'd written it. I thought, ' No, I've never written anything like this before.' But I had the tune, which was the most magic thing!"
Otto Loewi (1873-1961), a German born physiologist, won the Nobel Prize for medicine in 1936 for his work on the chemical transmission of nerve impulses. In 1903 Loewi had the idea that there might be a chemical transmission of the nervous impulse rather than an electrical one, which was the common held belief, but he was at a loss on how to prove it. He let the idea slip to the back of his mind until 17 year