Einstein’s Cows: Dreams That Changed History
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Dreaming is so fundamental to living that it would be impossible to fully describe a history of dreaming, but one thing is certain, dreams have certainly changed history.
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"Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that all was vanity; but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, and make it possible."
- T. E. Lawrence
Ha ha ha. Cats are DODGEY! I had a cat who loved plastic rings from milk cartons. He lost 19 under the refrigerator, and was SHOCKED and EXCITED for each, and every one I pulled out. So much so, he promptly swatted almost every one back under!🤪 🐈
In college: study one day, dream about the equations, pass the tests the next day. No dreams, hard to pass. Now at work: dreams help me solve hard technical problems.
n my 30s & 40s there was a recurring dream where i was a section gang foreman on an extremely remote section of railroad. This dream was from many angles such that over years i grew to know the topography. Years later I visited my brother in Oregon and went for a long drive. Never been to Oregon so wanted to see what was about. Suddenly, there was the section exactly as dreamed. Odd the brain latched onto a random, forgotten, unnoticed photo or image i must have viewed in my youth and was able to extrapolate an exact correct reconstruction over years of dreams completewith back story.
I dreamed I was invisible and I married an invisible woman.
I'm not sure what we saw in each other.
Our kids were nothing to look at either.
@@robertjensen1438 well played.
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I didn't see that one coming Dad!
Is it Father's day already?
Well done. That sounds like something Steven Wright would have come up with.
Many years ago my family's clothes dryer had quit working. My wife who had no idea how a dryer works dreamt of how to fix it. She woke that morning from the dream and went straight into the laundry room with her little tool bag and fixed it within minutes, based on the instruction in her dream.
The mind is often more strange and fascinating than science can explain.
Who knew that "It was revealed in my dream" is a legitimate source.
Love your channel! Thank you
I’ve always been intrigued by dreams and enjoy exploring discussions about them. In my 8-book prehistoric adventure series, the main character, a Neanderthal man, is significantly influenced by his dreams. Thank you for this fascinating look at how our dreams can impact history.
Santana said that the full lyrics of the song Search for Mona Lisa came to him in a dream. Wonderful episode; thank you.
This is what I like about this channel. Most other channels would either emphasize the woo and esoteric nature of the subject, or conversely, attempt to debunk and over-analyze it. TheHistoryGuy, by contrast, humanizes it.
Great episode.
Sorry to say after spending thousands on beds and chiropractors I started sleeping on a couch, that was 20 years ago. I sleep great and have saved thousands since. No chiropractors or mattresses for 20 years, pleasant dreams!
Seriously this mattress changed my life. It is simply good to find your place.
We own Brooklyn bedding and couldn’t be happier they sponsored you.
Thank you for the lesson.
I have a cat, named Luna (popular name, I know,) that often sleeps on my bed, and many times while she slept, I've observed her paws and jaw twitching extensively, and sometimes she will even emit short, clicking noises almost as if she wants to meow. On one occasion, Luna was sleeping very near the edge of the bed when one of these dream twitching episodes occurred which resulted in my poor kitten suddenly falling off of the bed. It was tragic and hilarious at the same time.
I read that Robert Palmer always kept a battery powered tape recorder near his bed so that if and when he dreamed a new tune or song he would be able to hum it into the machine for later development.
You don't have to understand the process to take advantage of its benefits. I often leave things I'm stuck on to the grey matter to sort out in the quiet times. Sometimes answers will come in dreams while other times they'll pop into mind as epiphanies.
😅 you just described me and bitcoin!
I dreamed about a toy factory where the toys took over and were led by a giant stuffed octopus. I'm still waiting for it to be turned into a movie.
I forget most of my dreams. On the other hand, I remember a few dreams from when I was 4 years old. The strangest though, are "lucid dreams", the dreams you have when you know you're dreaming. Those are the weirdest.
If I find myslef in a dream looking for a bathroom, I know I need to get up and go to the bathroom.
Don't ask why.
Me too
I have a very similar experience in dreams too. I distinctly remember learning this aspect of my dreams around the same time I learned lucid dreaming. I suppose it's as valid a trigger to wake you up as when you simply wake up in response to the body's need.
I had recurring dreams of flying as a child and found that when I decided to try hang gliding, it came completely naturally, as I had dreamt of the act so many times I knew I had to build up a little speed before trying to gain altitude. When I made my first flight in a hang glider it was on a training hill and I only did a take-off and and flew a short distance, then landed. But what a feeling of completion -- I finally got to fly. That was March of 1977 and I have since logged a boatload of hours in both hang gliders and parasails, as those are much easier to transport and set up vs your average hang glider at 60+lbs. "I like dreamin, cause dramin can make it mine."
In an alternate universe Paul McCartney dreamt Yesterday’s melody, woke up, then promptly forgot his dream.
That might have happened with 100 other songs.
Fascinating to imagine what sort of music might have been! But i am thankful we got as much as we did
How about Constantine and his dream of a cross? Big influence on history.
Wasn't a dream, it was a vision
Some of my dreams became reality.
In 2011, one week before the Osama raid, I had a dream where I was in a room, and I remember telling my dad, that I was in either Afghanistan or Pakistan but if I was in Pakistan, It must have been near a military base of the Pakistani army. Somehow I knew I was near by in my dream, I heard come helicopters and I told my dad, "I heard the Americans, I got up and grabbed my AK, and when the door was busted open, I got shot in the chest and head."
I told my dad I was just playing too many video games. I drew my "home." Maybe the games caused me to have that dream.
By coincidence, the same drawing I made was like Osama's room in the raid, like was described in the Seal's book shortly after, was exactly like my dream.
I dreamt that Osama would be killed before it happened.
Great info, as ever. Here's two things for you: 1. Cats dream, 2. "I think, therefore, I think I am"--great quote from my son when he was a teenager, which I think goes very well if our world is a simulation....
There has been research in cats. They do dream.
Most dreams are frustratingly fleeting, vivid when I wake up but irretrievably in less than five minutes. But there are four dreams that I believe I remember clearly, even from childhood, one of them repeating, that I will not recall here. I will say that they seemed to accurately reflect the future. Would that I could tap their source!
I can remember having a dream about the love of my life, I couldn't tell you anything about what they looked like in the dream. I can only tell you I was love sick and depressed for a couple weeks after, because it felt like I lost them. That can tell you the power of a dream to affect you in the real world.
As I get older and my bladder gets weaker I'm dominated by a dream of sitting in a public lavatory cubicle where the lock on the door doesn't work and people keep pushing the door open...
According to a Disney song "A dream is a wish your heart makes.." That may not apply to nightmares, but it does apply to the abstractions that occur in our dreams. Sometimes a solution to a problem pops up in an abstraction, something that doesn't exist in reality but our imagination creates it. It may be the one thing that separates us from the animals.
In most of the dreams I remember after waking, I either can't find my car in a parking lot, or am walking home and can't remember where I live. Do you suppose that is telling me my future?
I have those same dreams. They are so upsetting and disorienting.
@@SaraMercer-v6i I live in an apartment complex where all the buildings look similar, and I go out walking nearly every day. What worries me is the history of dementia in my family.
That's something that I haven't had in consecutive nights is great night of sleep. I know that when I use my CPAP I'm out like Richard Simmons! I am nodding off right now !😴💤
Your mind accumulates information. Sometimes in your sleep the answer you were looking for comes to you. Even just walking away from a problem for a few hours can produce this resukt.
I don't dream in normal circumstances. It is almost impossible to describe a combination of things in dreams that I have no true memories about, or a new word. A psychotherapist told me that this is because language usually takes over the thoughts of adults, and they are unable to think in raw images or concepts anymore. Or maybe he said that to ease my concerns about the lost ability of dreaming.
Me too. I just thought it was the PTSD, but it sounds like maybe we're too rational for our own good? 🤔🤷
I never dreamed that I would sit through a whole advertisement on a RUclips video.
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I have no doubts about any of this. While planning to buy my first car (1966 MGB) from an older relative I had a dream about driving a stick shift. He was astounded when I hopped in and took off without stalling!
I appreciate you and thank you for making content.
I am surprised you did not include August Kekiule, one of the foremost organic chemists of the 1800s. He attributed two of his major innovations to dreams. One dream gave rise to his theory of organic chemistry structure, i.e. that carbon compounds formed chains that were durable, and whose structure and attachments gave rise to their chemical properties. And in a later dream, he was imagining these chains as snakes, when one of the snakes bit its own tail; this dream gave rise to his explanation of the structure of benzene as 6 carbon atoms linked in a ring. These two insights are the foundation for all organic chemistry.
P.S. There are those who discount the 'dream' claims, but one can also deny that PaulMcCartney's mother was seen in a dream telling him to Let It Be. Of course, Kekule's mind was filled with speculations on how these multicarbon chemicals had the properties they did, and he probably could not escape these concepts even in sleep. But there is no good reason to not think that the freedom of thought in dreams allowed him to consider combinations that the existing paradigms would not have allowed.
Brooklyn Bedding here, referred by another RUclips channel, a nomad in a cushy trailer, and it is the best sleep we've had ever, no lie. No regrets at all, fine quality and worthwhile. yup. My dreams are so vivid and at times bizarre I wish I could record them. It must be the new mattress.
That mattress sincerely changed my life. Sleep is a great thing.
I dreamt that I saw the History Gut without a bow tie, and lo and behold...
His cat left it under the bed. That''s where lost bow ties go.
I dream entire movies... and they are all better than the idiocy produced by Disney.
So cool
In the mid 80's I was trying to write a computer program, but I couldn't make it work. I went to bed and dreamt I wrote it and it worked. When I woke up, I put in the computer what I dreamt,
it did indeed work.
So many times I’ve snapped awake to scribble down something profound or exciting that just appeared to me in a dream only to see in the morning that it was total bollocks once again.
That was a good one I really enjoyed that, I too have had dreams that evolved into inventions and Technologies
Tesla said many of his inventions started as dreams.
As a kid learning piano, i sometimes started hearing music in my dreams. At some point, I discovered they were pieces i was writing in my sleep, and the challenge became waking myself up to write it down because no matter how much i told myself "I'll remember this one!" it was always gone in the morning.
When I took Mandarin in college I had two small kids and time was limited, so I gave myself 5 minutes before bedtime to review my notes/flash cards for new characters. More than once, i woke up 'writing in the air' with my hands, practicing those same characters I'd studied just before bedtime--and I got an A+ in Level 4 Mandarin!
Take advantage of all the cool stuff your body can do, right? :)
Another super-interesting episode. I remember waking up from a symphony playing some piece that wasn't familiar to me, and I'm still wondering if I have it in me to compose classical music. (I suppose I'll never know!)
Have you ever done an episode on the history of the toothbrush (and maybe tooth poweders/ tooth paste)? I recently learned that L. Salvarias mitigates translocation and inhibits fungus, and that it together with Lactobacillas Paracase and B. Lactus helpf form a bioshield that protects our teeth and is far more helpful than brushing, but I'm still interested in the history of the toothbrush. I hope you are too.
@@camilleszalma4556 Toothpaste: A History of Oral Hygiene
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🎶To Dream The Impossible Dream 🎶
Nightmares can be the next video for your channel
@8:10. 😂😂👍👍. I laughed out loud in the airport!
Sometimes I have dreams where I am flying or I take a step in my dream but I am thinking in my dream that my foot will not touch the ground, and it doesn't. Thats when I begin to float, and I love that feeling and i am moving right along! I also think many a tall tale has come from dreams, and I am not sure if I want to question fiction or reality !
Thank you History Guy
7:30 dreams inspiring artistic creations
11:57 dreams inspiring science discoverings.
Way! What a video! My dreams are very vivid & yes, I need to keep a pencil & paper beside me at bed. Some could be best seller books! LOL.....😂😂😂
“Bang The Drum All Day” by Todd Rundgren was also written in a dream.
If only someone could invent a dream "recorder"......that would be something.
I'd be afraid my dreams would disappoint..
They are working on it. It will reveal visions and precognitions and change the world.
Electricity = Mad Cows²
Good one.
Though, *Energy
@@soul0360 I used "Electricity" on purpose, because it was an electric fence.
Coleridge's dream was influenced by Samuel Purchas' Purchas: His Pilgrimage, what Coleridge was reading when he fell into his opium induced slumber. :) Purchas claimed that James VI and I read Purchas: His Pilgramage seven times and kept it on his bedside table.
Love your videos
the universal appeal of the "I Have A Dream" speech might have to do with the real dreams of people at the time
Dogs do dream, as do some cats. Octopuses also dream, which was recently documented,
Some of my weirdest dreams are those which morph from whatever video I was watching or listening to. for example:
- Most recent, falling asleep during live channels tracking hurricanes, I found myself looking at big donut holes in the sky changing colors and shapes towards upside down mushrooms while I rescue cats over bridges,
- Watching Derick Jacobi playing King Richard the Second only to find myself and him as King Richard 2 riding the brightest blue ocean waves paddling from king size blue covered mattresses.
I don't seek an explanation or meaning from crazy or silly dreams. I'm just glad I had & could remember them. They're quite funny actually....
I think that the Einstein's Cows episode is a thought experiment from Professor Joao Magueijo's book 'Faster than the Speed of Light' (Heinemann 2003). Can't find any earlier reference to this.
I solved at least one coding problem through dreaming about it. Pretty powerful.
My uncle’s farm had Jersey’s , Holsteins , for milking and others for eating, but he never had any Einsteins….I guess they were too smart to be caught…😂😂😂!
Sweet dreams History Guy on your Brooklyn mattress…😊!
Have a great day!
The tale of Watson's dream about the double helix is apocryphal. It's well documented that the discovery of the double-helix structure of DNA was the result of a photograph taken by Rosaland Franklin, and that Watson and Crick took credit after her death, because they could.
I rarely recall my dreams, but I do know that if I want to solve a problem, I define the problem to myself right before I turn out the light and go to sleep. And more than once, I've woken up the next morning with the solution. Since our subconscious mind works while we're sleeping, once it's free from the distractions around us while awake, it can often work things out for us.
Just because someone has their breakthrough idea while mostly asleep doesn't make the idea any more important than if the same idea came to the person while awake. Terminator wasn't a hit because the premise was "dreamed"
I really enjoy your channel. Thank you for giving us such wonderful stories. I use dreaming regularly for inventive/creative type work. FYI e = mc squared is not relativity.
Your final line
........In dreams that deserved to be remembered
Thanks!
Thank you! Much appreciated!
Karl König, in his beautiful book on human psychology called “the Human Soul” points out three kinds of dreams. Dreams you remember your whole life. Dreams you don’t remember. And dreams you remember for a few hours.
On a personal note, I find that drinking unsweetened coconut water gives me vivid dreams. Unscientifically, I conclude that the coconut water helps my brains functioning in general. Supported by the fact that countries that consume a lot of coconuts rate higher on global happiness scale.
Good evening
The best dreams I ever had were the ones when I was going through puberty!
In most dreams I am aware that I'm dreaming. Too bad for Thomas Cornell Jr his uncle didn't realize he was dreaming and it was used as evidence against him in the death of his mother, Rebecca.
I have vivid dreams, especially since I've gotten older, and some I'm remembering more often. But can dreams be clairvoyant, or give a moment of esp? Crazy question to ask, right? I had a very real feeling dream of me working at the trade I retired from, which is common. I was the only one in the room when I heard this huge boom and felt the concussive force on my face from the explosion, which you would think would wake me up, but didn't. Glass blew in and debris was everywhere. I walked to the front of the building, looked out and saw a car bent in half, with a hole that looked like a rocket hit it. When I finally got up and sat down for breakfast, I saw on the news that overnight a terrorist general was taken out by a rocket while sitting in his car. My jaw dropped. Now, I'm not going to say I had a vision of it, but it was one helluva coincidence.
Those aren't dreams.... They are visions and precognitions. More real. Then real. I got shot once.
... Right on the face. Or maybe it was a 🧨 firecracker?
Hey History Guy🤓 👋 I'm often reminded that we have a cool 😎 kind of connection . Often I dream of your upcoming video even more so I find we are dressed like twins. My melatonin deficient Brother. We need to work on that afro.
LOL Mine is curly, but not quite afro. I'll work on that...
In the history of crashing bores, the #1 is people who insist on telling you their dreams… in excruciating detail.
Maybe for you... but they are a fascinating subject and equally fascinating to here.
Chemist August Kekulé envisioned the benzene ring as snakes biting each other’s tails while having a fever- induced dream. Many solutions to problems have been revealed to me in dreams. I believe that the “unconscious” is allowed to peacefully focus where the “conscious” mind is overloaded with daily concerns representing too much background noise.
Energy = Moving Cows Scared, fascinating
I have adventurous dreams every night. Anyone else?
Almost every morning I can remember some dream I had from the previous night's sleep. But I've never had anything I would call a nightmare, unless it had to do with people I know... and most specifically 2 ex-girlfriends. Ive described dreams to people before and they've thought it sounded nightmarish, but those don't bother me a bit. (One comes to mind... being in the cavalry at Custer's last stand and taking an arrow in the eye. I turn to see a native warrior rushing at me with a tomahawk and pull the arrow out with our loud, sloppy *POP*. The warrior drops to his knees vomiting at the site of the arrow in my hand with the eyeball on it.)
@@josephbenson6301 Great dream! Yes, I can see how some people wouldn't be able to handle this.
There was a famous song by the Turtles called 'EARTH ANTHEM' that was foretold in a dream.
William E. Martin (October 8, 1945 - January 27, 2016), also credited as Bill E. Martin and Bill Martin, was an American musician, screenwriter, songwriter and voice actor. (Check out his Wikipedia page for his long list of movie, television and video game credits.)
Bill had a dream one night where he saw a group of young people sitting and singing both the lyrics and music for the strange Earth Anthem song. When he awoke, he wrote everything down immediately and then gave it to The Turtles , who famously recorded it.
Check out the song on RUclips sometime. It was entirely created by figments of the imagination who were in excellent voice one night...and too good not to be remembered.
In general I'm dubious of any useful "meaning" in dreams, although there are times when there is clearly great meaning in them. That said, I've always been fascinated by them and used to keep a dream journal just to keep a record. However, last week I had a realization about dreaming and what dreams mean...
I dreamt my uncle's former home outside of Portland OR was part of a stripmall. There were multi-colored Chinese paper lanterns hanging from the second floor balcony.
It was only a brief flash in the dream as I passed by. It played no part in the "plot" of the dream. However... it MUST have some meaning. Out of everything else going on in the dream all the other buildings which seem to have been randomly/procedurally generated, this one specific house was selected from my memory to appear.
I don't suspect some deep meaning... and certainly not some supernatural portent, but I can't help but think there was a reason my brain tossed it in the mix.
Fascinating stuff THG! Thank you!!!
Dream interpretation is interesting, but I agree, I never put much stock in dreams. That is why these stories where a dream produced a breakthrough are so interesting to me.
In university if I had a particularly difficult problem set in differential equations or mathematical Physics I would read over the problem set and go to sleep with paper and pencil beside my bed. i would wake up in the morning with the solution or the correct approach to a solution. I wondered why it worked that way. Some years later I had moved for work and bought my first house. I had a vivid dream that I was riding on a particularly exciting roller coaster. The dream seemed to last forever. The ride was bouncing and twisting and the light fixture down the hall was rattling ... and that woke me up. a second or 3 later and the earthquake stopped. My hypothesis is that while we are asleep our brains are no no longer processing all that external information and works at a higher speed.
Abe Lincoln had a dream about his funeral the night before booth shot him
I’m surprised that you missed the story of Thomas Edison. He would fall asleep in a chair with an object in his hand. Just as he was falling asleep, the object would fall-waking him up full of creative ideas.
This was a good one.
My mom said when she was young she was trying to learn to knit a Greek Key. She couldent figure it out but when she went tp sleep she dreamed she could do it and when she awoke she could do it. 😀
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For myself I know I am very rare as I can recall most of my dreams even months or years later.
However I've had some dreams where I can actually smell and have sensory tactile feelings.
One such dream I was walking on the sidewalk on the busy turnpike highway at night. As I walk by one of these modernized electronic TV billboards I could actually feel the infrared heat from it from about 12 feet away.
So instead of its being a mere dream, maybe it was my spirit walking as my body was home in bed sleeping.
it's been said that isaac newton dreamt up calculus
When you dream a solution it's because you tapped into the cosmic library while you slept.
I'm surprised that you didn't mention Joseph (from Genesis) and how his dreams were prophetic and provided a way for his family to survive the famine ravaging the middle east.
My husband was one of those who would go to bed with a problem and awake with the solution. His sub-conscience was stronger than his waking mind and he had a history of sleepwalking as well (walked off a ship in the navy while asleep!) He couldn't tell me what he was dreaming about while walking around, other than just a normal day. Over the years I was able to tell when he was asleep - a comment or two just wouldn't make sense.
I wrote about a dream I had during covid and it won me a full scholarship.
It gives me great pleasure believing spiders dream. Since they’ve given me nightmares for years, I hope they also wake screaming with visions of my shoe coming down their heads.
😂
Yes. They have such nightmares. I would know, traded places with a spider 🕷️ when I was six years old.
Source: It came to me in a dream
Back in the Saddle Again Naturally!
thankyou from sunny fla
I have solved many of the problems I have faced in my dreams.
Julia Ward Howe wrote the lyrics to The Battle Hymn of the Republic after waking from a dream in the middle of the night.
It's impossible to change history. That's why it's called history in the first place.
So we REALLY should be calling it the theory of cowitivity.
This video could have been 12 mins long ....thanks Brooklyn bedding
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There's a word for "knowledge" gained effortlessly via revelations, dreams, meditation, or prayer: mysticism. Mysticism might inspire art, but it has nothing to do with science, which requires work.