Finding Creative and

Innovative Solutions

by Gary Yamamoto

With your dreams, you can find creative ideas and innovative solutions to problems. In fact, you do this all the time, only most of the time you don’t remember them. These may be ideas to come up with a new product line in your business. Or, it could be as simple as a new approach to customer service that will wow your customers. Or you could be the next Albert Einstein and establish the newest way of understanding the universe.

Finding an Innovative Solution

The method for finding an innovative solution is simple. You can begin by considering all known alternatives. Go onto the Internet and research everything there is to know about your problem. Then, after you have exhausted all possibilities, you need to step back and take a nap or go to sleep. Before going to sleep, you need to ask yourself that you need to find a solution to your problem. Then, reiterate the problem you’re trying to solve and emphatically ask for a solution. Now, it’s time to take your nap or go to sleep.

Getting Your Solution

When you get up in the morning, record any dream you remember. Then, analyze the dream and see how it suggests a solution to your problem. If it doesn’t, don’t give up. Armed with a pen and pad, go through your morning routine. You never know when the solution will hit you.

Maybe Later

Many of my clients report that the solution jumped out at them while taking a shower. Others report getting their insight while drive to work. If the idea comes to you while driving, do not try to write it down while still driving. Instead, pull off the road, park, and then start recording your dream. Another practical solution would be to have a small digital recorder handy to record your dream.

Dream Symbols

Of course, the dream is often in symbols that you don’t recognize. In my book, Creative Dream Analysis: A Guide to Personal Development, I provide a dictionary of symbols which will help you understand what your dreams are saying to you.

Examples in the Scientific World

Using your dreams are not hokey. As a former electrical engineer, I know there are people who think that dreams are just neurons firing because they have nothing else to do. Others believe that dreams are just the continuation of the day’s activities. But science had a powerful advocate of using dreams. Alert Einstein had a dream once of riding on a comet. In his dream, the comet moved faster and faster, approaching the speed of light. What he saw in that dream formed the basis of his Theory of Relativity. Thomas Edison regularly took naps to revisit the inventions he was working on.

What I Did

I have personally used my dreams to write two children’s books. The first book, Jason’s Journey into the Rainbow took two nights of dreaming. The second, Jason in the Land of the Dragons only took one night.

Other Who Use Their Dreams

While speaking at Canyon Ranch in Tucson, Arizona, I have met several authors who use their dream, to write their novels. They often use their dreams to embellish the details in the books they are writing. Perhaps you may be the next bestselling author with the help of your dreams. The people who stay at Canyon Ranch are all very successful. When I ask how many of them had had dreams that solve their problems or gave them new ideas, over half the people in the audience raise their hands. When I ask how many of them had obtain their ideas while getting ready in the morning or driving to work, nearly all the hand go up.

Time To Use Your Dreams

In today’s rapidly changing and evolving world, old methods and solutions are becoming dinosaurs. Organizations need people who are able to have creative ideas and innovative solutions to help organizations succeed. You can become one of those.