Logical Dreams

I was watching one of my favorite shows on TV (which isn't saying much since I only watch about two hours of TV per week) called "The Human Body-Pushing The Limits" on The Discovery Channel. This program shows how the body reacts to different situations in life, especially extreme situations. It is fascinating, especially to a body builder who has spent the last 15 years tricking my body into building and maintaining a large amount of muscle that it naturally doesn't want to.
On this particular episode they featured the brain and how it reacts during dreaming. One particularly interesting part detailed, that as we sleep the logic center of the brain shuts down but that your brain actually becomes up to four times more active than while awake. Processing all of the information that was stored in the short term holding places in your brain, discarding the irrelevant and placing the relevant issues and events into long term memory. This is no small feat because, according to the program, the brain processes one hundred trillion instruction ever second...yes second. Now, I've already told you that I am a body builder so I even had to spell check trillion just to write this blog.
The amazing point that they made was that the reason that our dreams are many times very non-sensible; is that, with the logic center turned off our brain has the freedom to go places that it wouldn't venture into while awake.
They gave several examples of how people dreamed the answer to very complex questions that, in a waken state they haven't been able to figure out. One example was a NASA scientist attempting to work out how to solve the problem of building a space station for astronauts to live in while not having a place to live in while building it. Even describing the problem is difficult.
How did he solve it, he dreamed it. And when they implemented his dream it worked!
Imagine that, after working on a complex problem for years, the brain solves it in one night, once logic was taken out of the way.
I don't think it is a far stretch to make the point that our "logic" is one of the things that gets in the way of our dreams when we are awake. We all have hopes and dreams for our life, but we allow our "logic center" to shut us down before we have the opportunity to "test" (live) our theories in real life. We talk our selves out of even trying to reach our dreams, telling our selves that "logically" we can't achieve them, so why bother trying.
Yet if you look at many of history's most successful and innovative people, many of them were far from what was called logical at the time. Think Einstein, relativity- whats was so logical about that in the early 1900's. Even modern creative geniuses, are considered "less than logical" at the time of their idea generation; think Bill Gates. Who would think that it would ever be logical, where all the computer and operating systems developed would be at today. Do you think that anything about the Internet is logical? We can't even comprehend the total amount of information on it at any given time because during the time it would take to calculate that number, the amount if information on the internet will double.

So if we learn anything about this it's this. WAKE UP! AND LIVE YOUR DREAMS!!!
Don't let logic get in the way of you trying to achieve your dreams, success isn't always logical.
Until next time...