There are all these great stories... like one time, my mom lost a piece of jewelry (I think it was a necklace) and they had searched high and low for it. They went to bed that night, and my dad had a dream about the necklace being under the seat of his car. They woke up, went to the exact location, and found the necklace.
And other time, he had this dream about a girl he was helping on a train... the girl was from country A, and was trying to escape over the border to country B, and dad had to help her - and for some reason, this dream was extremely vivid, especially the locations involved. The next day, on the radio, my dad heard that the border between these two countries was closed, and that no more people were allowed to seek refuge in country B.
I used to wish and pray often that somehow I would inherit these magical powers. Just one magical dream that turned out to be true.
Then I went to college and my brain started doing it's own peculiar things...
Freshman year I took a 8am, MTWHF, Calculus 2 HONORS class. It was a terrible class, and I could barely stay awake, much less understand any of the material being taught. I would often come home to realize that I had continued taking notes while I fell asleep, so I was often trying to find the derivative of "grandma" or else my
notes
started
going all
over
the page.
barbecue sauce.
Later I started having programming dreams. Once I dreamed I was a word in the spell check program I was writing at the time - and I kept falling through the code until I got stuck. I woke up and found the problem with my code was the exact method I got "stuck" in.
Before a health final, I woke up about 2am and yelled out the formula for resting heart rate, which I had been dreaming about quite vividly.
So while I am starting to realize that perhaps my brain is processing amazing amounts of information at night, and finding creative solutions to problems... but I prefer to think that I did, in fact, inherit the magic brainpowers, and these lucid moments between wake and sleep are when I get a glimpse of just how powerful my magic is.
