New Ideas

Sometimes it is so very hard to come up with new ideas. Nothing motivates me. At times it can get frustrating. I was reading a book about cartooning and the author made the comment that seventy percent of one's time is spent coming up with ideas. That is a lot of time. I am not a cartoonist but I spend a lot of my time generating ideas for projects. It didn't occur to me that idle-time is productive time with the right frame-of-mind.
Sometimes people say dreams are a source of inspiration. But I'm unsure. I have always felt that dreams might be a source of inspiration with the right motivation and discipline. I have heard that dreams can be significant sources of direction. Yet I have never found myself actually tapping into a dream for any type of guidance. The inventor of the sewing machine had a dream tell him how the design of the needle was to be constructed. Another person had the shape of a molecule come to him in a dream. The Bible is full of examples of people who used dreams as a way of understanding how to proceed. Joseph, the husband of Mary, was directed as to where he was to go when presented with conflicting ideas. I wonder if there might be truth to these stories. Or are they just stories?