We know that the right brain takes over when we are in a dream state. The
ideas generated in dreams can therefore be attributed largely to the right
brain. Niels Bohr, one of the founding fathers of quantum physics, dreamt
of a planetary system as a model for atoms, which led to the ‘Bohr model’ of
atomic structure and a Nobel Prize. The laboratory procedure for producing
insulin on a mass basis was discovered in a dream by Sir Frederick Banting.
Otto Loewi dreamt the design of an experiment; went to the laboratory
later and performed the experiment and generated the results of the the-
ory of chemical transmission of nervous impulse which won him the 1936
Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine. The most popular song in history
‘Yesterday’ was received by Beatle Paul McCartney in a dream — chords and
melody.
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