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** Fortunately, he had the same dream the following night. [[Oh, No, Not Again|Taking no chances this time]], he got up and went right to the lab (where his experiments confirmed his idea).
* There is a legend that Dmitri Mendeleev had seen the periodic table of the elements in dream.
* A famous anecdote from the middle 20th century plays on this trope. While it appeared in many places and was attributed to many individuals (including prominent psychologist William James), the earliest known version appeared in the ''Cleveland Plain Dealer'' newspaper in November 1939. According to the article “Thanksgiving Nightmare” by Claire MacMurray, a Mrs. Amos Pinchot had a dream in which she had achieved a profound insight into the ultimate of truth of life and distilled it down into a poem of ineffable beauty and wisdom. At the end of the dream she half-woke and scribbled down the poem so as not to lose it. In the morning she had forgotten all but the broadest outline of the dream, and eagerly read what she'd written in the night:
{{quote|<poem>''Hogamus Higamus
''Men are Polygamous
''Higamus Hogamus
''Women Monogamous''</poem>}}
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