The Morpheus Variation

Stephen Hawking edited a book called 'The Dreams the Stuff is Made Of', which is a collection of the original papers that founded and initiated the field known as Quantum Theory.  There we find papers by all the greats, including Max Plank, Einstein, Schrodinger, etc., where they struggle to elucidate these strange theoretical findings, and put them in rigorous form.

Isn't the title a nice description of what chess is about, in a well thought out game?  We get positions, advantages, ideas, attacks, etc., conceived in the mind's eye in a kind of dream, which is then realized on the board - "the dreams that stuff is made of".

In Genna Sosonko's book, 'Smart Chip from St. Petersburg', he includes a chapter called the Morpheus Variation, where he discusses the strange phenomenon of grandmasters getting new chess ideas in their dreams; waking up in the middle of the night to write down moves; and the strange chess detritus that filters from the unconscious of strong players.  Clearly, much of chess, knowingly or unknowingly, begins with the dreams that our stuff is made of.

I recall playing chess in dreams.  Sometimes I can even see features of the position I had when I wake up, and I wonder about that.  There must be some kind of dream yoga or something, a lucid dreaming technique that will allow us to continue to play while we sleep.