Daydreaming and mining your dreams for ideas have been discussed in this blog before, but an October 27, 2011, Wall Street Journal article, The Music of His Dreams, really blew my mind. Larry Blumenfeld writes that pianist Fred Hersch awoke from a two-month coma in 2008 and remembered eight specific dreams. Hersch was compelled by them and in 2009 wrote a 90 minute theater piece blending Hersch’s music with interpretations of his dreams and experiences. I just found that amazing.