Dreams are the fuel that have propelled humankind. A few of us, the first among equals, could convert them to reality. From poetry to films to business ideas, here's a short thread on ideas that occurred in dreams and were successfully replicated into reality:

One night, experiencing an opium-influenced dream after reading a work describing Xanadu, the summer palace of the Mongol ruler, the celebrated English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge wrote 'Kubla Khan', which remained incomplete. Later, Lord Byron persuaded him to publish the poem.

In recent times, dreams have hardly featured as a potent catalyst as they have in Christopher Nolan's 'Inception', where @LeoDiCaprio plays a corporate spy who steals dreams from the minds of CEOs and business tycoons. The idea of the film struck the director in his sleep, aptly!

@PaulMcCartney wrote about the process of composing 'Yesterday': I went to the piano...made sure I remembered it and then hawked it round to all my friends, asking what it was: 'Do you know this? It's a good little tune, but I couldn't have written it because I dreamt it.'

Talking of Paul, can John be far behind? The self-confessed dreamer, in one of his iconic songs repeats a nonsensical phrase he heard in the dream, "Ah! böwakawa poussé, poussé". John Lennon's 'Dream' even refers to that feeling of dreams being real. Quite meta!

In a speech, August Kekule recounted a dream he had in the winter of 1861-62 while dozing in front of a fire in Ghent. The image of a self-devouring snake apparently led him to the discovery of the Benzene ring. Although it is contested now, Kekule might have had multiple dreams.

In 1970, Takeshi Okawara, the manager of Japan's first @kfc, woke up at midnight and jotted down an idea that came to him in a dream: a “party barrel” to be sold on Christmas. Today millions celebrate 25th Dec in Japan by devouring fried chicken. Advance orders start in November.

What other famous dreams that you know of, which translated into reality? Tweet @PQL_official and we will share them on our page.

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