Dreams have been a source of inspiration for scientists, inventors, artists, writers, philosophers and many more.  They are rarely a topic of conversation but these famous men and women shared their dreams and by doing so also left their own unique mark in history.

Below is list of few famous dreamers.

Albert Einstein

When Einstein was still a teenager he had a life altering dream.   He dreamed that he was sledding down a steep hill at night, his sled traveled faster and faster, until it approached the speed of light.  At that speed, the stars and night sky were transformed into a dazzling spectrum of colors. 
Einstein once told a journalist,  " that my entire scientific career has been a meditation on that dream. "

Niels Bohr
Niels Bohr said that he developed the model of the atom based on a dream of sitting on the sun with all the planets hissing around on tiny cords.   He won the Nobel Prize for that dream.

Friedrich A. Kekulé
Friedrich was German chemist that visualized the molecular structure of benzene (a closed carbon ring) in a dream he had one night.

Robert Louis Stevenson
 Stevenson is the author of Treasure Island and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. He wrote that many of his best stories came directly from his dreams.

Guiseppe Tartini
 Tartini wrote his masterpiece for the violin, the Devil's Sonata, after hearing it performed in a dream.  

Carl Jung
Jung wrote of his early dream journals, " All my works, all my creative activity, has come from those initial dreams which began in 1912, almost fifty years ago. Everything that I accomplished in later life was already contained in them, although at first only in the form of emotions and images. "

President Abraham Lincoln
 Lincoln had this dream shortly before he was assassinated. 

 " About ten days ago, I retired very late.  I had been up waiting for important dispatches from the front.  I could not have been long in bed when I fell into a slumber, for I was weary.  I soon began to dream.  There seemed to be death-like stillness about me. Then I heard subdued sobs, as if a number of people were weeping. I thought I left my bed and wandered downstairs.  There the silence that was broken by the same pitiful sobbing, but the mourners were invisible.  I went from room to room;  no living person was in sight,  but the same mournful sounds of distress met me as I passed along.  It was light in all the rooms;  every object was familiar to me;  but where were all the people who were grieving as if their hearts would break?  I was puzzled and alarmed.  What could be the meaning of all this?  Determined to find the cause of a state of things so mysterious and so shocking,  I kept on until I arrived at the East Room,  which I entered there I met with a sickening surprise.  Before me was a catafalque, on which rested a corpse wrapped in funeral vestments.  Around it were stationed soldiers who were acting as guards;  and there was a throng of people, some gazing mournfully upon the corpse, whose face was covered, others weeping pitifully.  "Who is dead in the White House?"  I demanded of one of the soldiers  " The President "  was his answer;  " he was killed by an assassin! Then came a loud burst of grief from the crowd,  which awoke me from my dream. "

General George Patton
General George Patton, when at the battlefield on Langres France, said to his driver that he already knew the place. He told his driver where to go and said it was as if someone were whispering directions in his ear. He correctly went to the Ancient Roman Amphitheater, The Drill Grounds, The Forum and even correctly went to the spop where Caesar had pitched his tent. " You see, I've been here before " He had been there in his dream.

Morgan Robertson and the Titanic
Author Morgan Roberstons wrote, The Wreck of the Titan (also known as Futility) in 1898.  His story was based on a disturbing dream.
Robertson's book was about an unsinkable passenger liner on its maiden voyage that sank while carrying the elite people of that time.
A real ship we all know, called the Titanic, sank on its maiden voyage in April 1912.
 Some of Robertson’s dream:  He saw a large ship speeding through a foggy Atlantic night; a vast and sturdy ship driven by three propellers and traveling at least 23 knots.  He saw people wandering over the deck and realized the vessel held over 2,000 passengers & crew. With nervousness he looked to the lifeboats, there were only 24.
Someone on the shop whispered  " unsinkable "  as Robinson then saw an iceberg just before the ship.  Just before he woke up, he saw the name on the ship, the Titan.
Look at the similarities from Robertson’s book and the real Titanic disaster.

Robertson's Titan was 800 feet long, the actual Titanic 882.5
Both ships were all steel with three propellers and two masts
Tonnage for the Titan 75,000, tonnage for Titanic 66,000
Each was built to carry about 3000 people
The Titan's horsepower was 40,000, the Titanic 46,000
Each was described as the largest passenger ship ever built
Both ships had the British Flag
Both sailed their maiden voyage in the month of April
Passengers for the Titan 3,000, and for the Titanic 2,207
Lifeboats on the Titan 24, and for the Titanic 20
Both were considered unsinkable until they went down in the North Atlantic
The Titan was traveling at 24 knots, the Titanic 22.5
Both stuck an iceberg on the starboard side near midnight

 Valerie Clarke and the WTC

Valerie shared her dream on the BBC's  "Kilroy Show" (which was recorded, so copies exist)  in June the year prior to the WTC coming down.
" I had this dream a while ago and I thought it was a bombing at the World Trade Center.  In my dream I was at the World Trade Center wandering the streets – I was in some sort of barricade when the building blew up.  At the same time this plane went down behind it. In my dream I was not sure if the plane had gone into the building. "