![]() 'But it was safe, I was good at it and I was financially stable.' 'It was a million miles away from being creative,' says Mandy. For ten years, she ran three businesses, including one as a partner in wills and estate planning.Ĭhange: Mandy Nicholson, 56, (pictured) painted a new life as an artist in one of her dreams Mandy Nicholson is another who believes in the power of dreams to change the course of a life. 'I'm very open to the experience and to talking about it, too.' He's very pedantic about the minutiae of my plots and characters. 'He'll be so insistent that I have no choice but to listen to his advice. 'Even today, Ted regularly visits me in my dreams,' says Lesley. Ted has his own fan page on Facebook, where regular posters discuss plotlines and fantasise over who would play Ted in a TV series. Krier, is working on book 17 of the Ted Darling detective series and has sold many thousands of copies. I didn't have to think about it: the book, from start to finish, was as I dreamt it.' 'I wrote the first chapter within an hour,' says Lesley, 'and I had a first draft within a month. When she climbed out of bed the following morning, Lesley switched on her computer and started to transcribe her dream. I can't tell you how long the dream was, but I woke up with the plot for a first novel.' Ted told me about his love of green tea and cats, and all about his partner. ![]() 'There were the colleagues, where they work, and the case they were dealing with. She had a staff position, with promotion in the offing, and yet a powerful dream led to her walking away from it all When Sarah Class (pictured) was 21, she was working as a researcher for a major broadcaster. He told me he was a detective inspector working on serious crime, but he started his police career as a specialist firearms officer. 'He was short and slight, with floppy, dusty-blonde hair. 'I was asleep and yet it was like watching a crime drama on TV while sitting next to the main character, a chap who told me his name was Ted Darling,' says Lesley, a retired copywriter from Stockport, Greater Manchester. At other times, it happens by pure coincidence.'īut imagine having a dream with such a clear and compelling message that it ends up changing the course of your entire life.Īs she settled down to sleep one winter night six years ago, Lesley Krier Tither, 68, was completely unprepared for the detail and significance of the dream that followed. 'Sometimes that's because, consciously or unconsciously, we have information that allows our brain to calculate and literally envision the possibility of these events. 'When our brain dreams, it can sometimes predict the future, or show what's happening at that very time somewhere far away,' says Professor Stickgold. Sleep science suggests we dream for at least six-and-a-half hours every night, but what if a dream could change your life? (file image) Professor Robert Stickgold, of the Division of Sleep Medicine at Harvard Medical School in the U.S., co-author of a new book, When Brains Dream, says our sleeping brains are so good at mulling over waking concerns - and we all dream so much - the probability of a real-life event mirroring a dreamt-of one is far higher than we think. Modern sleep research has even begun to reconsider the notion of 'precognitive dreams' - those that apparently show us an event before it's happened. By 'dramatising' our deepest anxieties and desires, they can show us what we really want and need in life. Others, including those at the forefront of neuroscience, are convinced that dreams are the brain's ingenious way of joining the dots and suggesting solutions to problems while we sleep. Some think dreams are merely the result of random - and meaningless - firings of neurons, as the sleeping brain clears out debris from the day before and forms new memories. Everyone dreams, even if we think we don't - and for much longer each night than previously believed.Ĭutting-edge sleep science suggests we dream for at least six-and-a-half hours every night.īut experts remain divided on precisely why we dream. For millennia, we have looked to our dreams for clues as to how we should live our waking lives.
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