Adolphe: Dreaming and Thinking

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"Einstein wrote in his journals that relativity came to him first in a kind of dream state, and that once the details of the dreamed images appeared to group themselves, he considered that to be thinking. So he wrote that dreaming and then thinking is the essence of the creative process, and it seems that his definition of thinking is the organization of dreamed images, whatever form those images may take. I have long thought this to be the case for creativity in general, and it seems to describe my own experience in composing. I used the terms 'dreaming and thinking' to describe creativity in the second edition of my book The Mind's Ear before I came across Einstein's journal on the subject." - Bruce Adolphe