You know that moment, those several seconds, right before you fall asleep? The moment where you have all your best ideas and your most awe-inspiring epiphanies? It was at that moment, two nights ago, that I had an idea. It was an idea that surprised and excited me. This is going to be amazing, I thought. People are really going to want to hear about this. Then I fell asleep.
Like all great ideas that happen as we close our eyes, that game changer of an epiphany is gone. Lost to the ether.
All I can say, is that it involved Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs, and that’s it. No matter how much brain wracking I do it is gone, never to return. I wonder how many life altering plans have gone the same way? What would life be like today, if even half of our brilliant sleep induced ideas actually came to fruition?
Of course, it could be argued that those ideas, seeming great at the time are, in reality, nonsensical gibberish. Illogical twaddle that our brain regurgitates as it starts the days downloading of information. We may never know. But, for now, I will continue to believe that we could change the world, if only we could remember.
Rebecca Lamprey 