Dream on

I heard a story that changed the way i looked at how ideas work
A man woke up late in the night, with sweat on his brows. He had a bad dream (a nightmare), it that dream someone was trying to kill him, the person claimed to be from the future. Rather than that man go on his knees and bind the evil spirits like any Nigerian religious man or woman would do, he took his notepad and pen and started writing the dream out.
That man was James Cameron. The movie turned out to be Terminator.
I can only imagine if it was my country men that had that dream he would get his bible out and pray though the night till either it was morning, or he had lost a lot of sweat (no offence to anyone).
But the reality is simple
1. James Cameron is not dead (at least not yet)
2. The dream (the nightmare) only served to motivate him to do something.
3. Terminator is still one of the biggest franchise all thanks to a nightmare.
Many might disagree with my illustration but the reality is simple, we are so ignorant of the problems out there that we can't see how we can capitalize on getting the solution.
It all starts with an idea
A idea is just an idea, until it is put into writing, it remains a thought, insignificant and just plain clouds int he sky.
It is the effort to drive that idea that makes the difference between a successful idea and failure.
Just like a dream, once we wake up it starts to fade away fast unless we consciously try to write it down.

Someone once said to me, that all that could be invented has already been invented. I disagree with him, because there will always be nightmares and problems out there.
It's up to us to either write them down and fix them or simply ignore them and allow our ideas to fade out like a dream that has not been written down.