The Committee of Sleep by Deirdre Barrett explores the long history of creative breakthroughs in dreams, including discoveries in science, mathematics, and the arts. Barrett compiles numerous cases where dreams provided novel solutions to complex problems.
DSETI tracks this reference because Rekshan cites Barrett when discussing dreams as channels for symbolic or informational insight, including possible contact-mediated creativity. The work supports a view of dreams as generative problem-solving systems.
For DSETI, Barrett’s findings encourage exploring dream incubation and intuition as tools for receiving novel insights, including potential communication from unknown intelligences.