BRIDGING THE GAP BETWEEN REALITY AND IMAGINATION

Lets see, I have slept with Megan fox, Angelina jolie and tonight I am going to buy the empire state building in Midtown Manhattan.. and you know what, I JUST DID !!

Okay so that was my imagination , period
In reality i would not even get close to sleeping with someone in my neighbourhood and before i set foot in America for getting a view of the empire state building, i will be arrested in the airport by the US cops for looking like a Terrorist in disguise. ( well, that is what is happening these days) 

So, Why exactly do we need to waste our time imagining things ????      

It is because Imagination is one of our greatest personal assets. It is a casement into the world of possibility, and a very strong force towards the realization of a happier, more successful and fulfilling life. Without imagination we would never venture outside the box. Our reality would only exist within the confines of the status quo. When used purposefully, our imagination becomes the trigger of our creative abilities.

A few years of interest in engineering has compelled me to mention the words our "Father" Albert Einstein once said before he took off to improvise his skills far away from planet earth.

Well, sorry to burst the bubble folks but this is a myth. Literally we use way more than just 10% but creatively we are way below einstein's predicted number itself.

The source of fantasy & dreams is imagination. It is a gift, a powerful tool given to us by the almighty and the working is something we have to figure it out by our own  to achieve global enlightenment.

This is an extract from Dr. dilip Abayasekara on How to Create your reality with the power of imagination

Can you be brilliantly eloquent? Can you be great at anything you choose to do? Can you speak with eloquence and power in front of a group of people? If you answered "no, no, no" or "get real" or any variation of those words, I have good news for you.  Although your present reality may indicate that the answers are "no", you CAN do all of the above in your imagination! in your imagination, you can be anything you want to be, do anything you want to do, realize any deferred dream that you have labeled as unreachable in the glum reality of your analytical "real" world.  Do you remember when you were a kid, how much fun you could have imagining yourself to be a super hero, acting in concert with your imagination? You could fly, you could stop a speeding bullet, and you could leap over tall buildings. And then...you grew up. You dreamed less and less. You forgot the power of your imagination, not knowing that imagination is one of the greatest powers resident in you to affect your reality.

The rest of the article can be read Here. Trust me its pretty awesome.  

After reading the full article we will get a extensive idea on how to bridge the gap between reality and imagination.

A word to all fellow dreamers out there. "Your dreams are what You desire and Your imagination is what creates it."

Interests vary from one person to another. Let us look at how collaboration of imagination or dreams with reality became pivotal to success in every field of life. TRUE STORY!!! 

1.   SCIENCE

• Einstein Dreams About Electrocuting Cows, Creates Special Theory of Relativity

Albert Einstein is perhaps the only person whose name became a synonym for "smart." Solving the mysteries of the universe was more a hobby for him than a job. And if his brain power wasn't obnoxious enough already, many of his biographies recount that the theory of relativity came to him in a goddamn dream. When he was a teenager.
It's said that Einstein dreamed that he was walking through a farm when he came upon a bunch of cows huddled up against an electric fence. The farmer suddenly switched the fence on, because apparently he was that much of an asshole, and Einstein watched all of the cows jump back at the same time as they got shocked. Assuming that he'd witnessed some kind of synchronized cow acrobatics, Einstein recounted what he'd seen to the farmer, who had been standing at the opposite end of the field. But what the farmer had seen was different -- he'd seen the cows jump away one by one, like they were doing the wave at a football game. This would have been hilarious, and one assumes this is why he did it.
Of course Einstein, being Einstein, wasn't content with simply waving this away as a silly dream. Shit, if he'd dreamed about wearing a hat made of pudding, he would have assumed there was a physics problem to solve there. So after ruminating on the problem for a while, he started to put together the idea that events look different depending on where you're standing because of the time it takes the light to reach your eyes. In other words, the theory of relativity.
In short, we got one of the most radical developments in science because a young boy had a dream about electrocuting farmyard animals and spent his adult life refusing to let go of an argument that he had with an imaginary farmer. Take that, Ph.D. education!

• Sleep + Music.. What a great combo, On any other day i will make a periodic table.
  
  
  
  Nineteenth-century Chemist Dimitri Mendeleyev fell asleep while chamber music was being played in the next room. He understood in a dream that the basic chemical elements are all related to each other in a manner similar to the themes and phrases in music. When he awakened, he was able to write out for the first time the entire periodic table, which forms the basis of modern chemistry.

        

2.  MUSIC

• "Yesterday" I had a dream.

The tune for "Yesterday" came to Paul McCartney in a dream...
The Beatles were in London in 1965 filming 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!"

Later According to the Guinness Book of Records, the Beatles song "Yesterday" (1965) went on to have the most cover versions of any song ever written and, according to record label BMI, was performed over seven million times in the 20th century.(well, i have done that in the 21st century too) This Song also ranks 13th on Rolling Stone's 2004 list of 500 Greatest Songs Of All Time.

3.   MOVIES

• JAMES CAMEROON DREAMS THE TERMINATOR

In 1981, director James Cameron was pretty much unknown in Hollywood, his greatest accomplishment at that time having been Piranha II: The Spawning, a cautionary tale about genetically engineered flying carnivorous fish. It was not the kind of film that people would watch and think that, 30 years later, the director would be responsible for the first and second most successful films in history.

Cameron of course had greater ambitions beyond flying piranhas. Yes, greater even than flying piranhas in space. He desired to make an action movie reminiscent of the old Outer Limits episodes he watched as a kid. He just didn't know what to write about. But while he was in Rome working on the post-production of Piranha II, Cameron grew sick and had to leave early to go to bed. That night, he had a fever dream -- there was an explosion, and coming out of it was a robot, cut in half, armed with kitchen knives, crawling toward a fleeing girl. Despite a 102 degree fever, Cameron sketched the robot down after he awoke, and once back in the United States, he hammered out a draft of what would become The Terminator.

Of course, the final film changed a little from Cameron's original vision. At first the killer robot was to be played by O.J. Simpson, but producers vetoed the idea because there was no way the public would believe O.J. would kill anyone (this was a little while ago).

But the finished product was a hit, and it was Cameron's first step toward becoming one of the biggest names in Hollywood, instead of getting pigeonholed as the go-to director for flying fish movies.

Ahem... Later fate had something stupid in mind.

4.       NOVELS

•  The KING who had a dream

Stephen King is one of the most prolific and popular writers of our time, so it may surprise you to learn that he came up with plot concepts and graphic images for a few of his novels while sound asleep. In the case of Misery, King describes falling asleep on an airplane and having a dream about a fan kidnapping her favorite author and holding him hostage. When he awoke, King was so anxious to capture the story of his dream that he sat at the airport and frantically wrote the first 40-50 pages of the novel. Misery became a best-seller that inspired a successful movie and earned Kathy Bates, who played deranged fan Annie Wilkes, a Best Actress Academy Award and Golden Globe.

King has been quoted as saying, “I’ve always used dreams the way you’d use mirrors to look at something you couldn’t see head-on, the way that you use a mirror to look at your hair in the back.” He credits his dreams with giving him the concepts for several of his novels and for helping him to solve troublesome moments in the writing of his novel IT as well. 

• OMG! I JUST MADE FRANKENSTEIN

In 1816, Mary Shelley was just eighteen years old when she spent the summer with her lover (and future husband) Percy Shelley, at Lord Byron’s estate in Switzerland. One night, as they sat around the fire, the conversation turned to the subject of reanimating human bodies using electrical currents. Shelley went to bed that night with images of corpses coming back to life swirling through her head; as she slept, she clearly saw Frankenstein’s monster and imagined the circumstances under which he had been created.

Shelley woke up and began to write a short story about her dream. Later that year her husband, also a writer, encouraged her to expand her story into a full-length novel. She complied, and the great literary masterpiece Frankenstein was published when Shelley was just nineteen. Incidentally, Lord Byron was also inspired by their fireside chat; his resulting work, Vampyre, is considered to be the predecessor of all romantic vampire-human love stories.

Well i hope i have covered most of your favourite fields. There are many more dream inventions/discoveries, you can always browse them on the internet.

 At the end of the day , Never relegate your fantasies to the storage closet. They hold the power of a new reality. The reason we fantasize is because our creative nature is showing us a glimpse of future possibilities. For your dreams to become your reality, you only need to bridge the gap between imagination and realization.

PS: For starters, Read Calvin and hobbes strips! 
Here's one coming from the very imaginative 6 year old Calvin...

Even though calvin said KRAKOW! KRAKOW! TWO DIRECT HITS! as Spaceman spiff, Ironically that was the right answer to susie's ( the girl in the strip) question as well..

The most ironic fact is that this whole comic strip is based on a 6 year old calvin and his stuffed tiger Hobbes who magically comes to life in calvin's eyes and they go on many adventures and come across many realizations.
This is imagination and realization at its very best..

So dear friends and foes IMAGINE, REALISE and RELIVE just like the late great John Lennon once said through this beautiful song.

JOHN LENNON - IMAGINE

                                      

                                   

Thank you all for Reading folks!