How many of you dream in concepts rather than images?
I've noticed this from time to time. It often seems that a dream will have a sense of urgency, or of being a child again, or of anything else, without any details from which this sense could be inferred. But it's not a flat 'all dreams' sort of thing; some dreams will be movie-like, others will be built out of pure feelings-that-something-is-happening.
I'd like to bring up a wonderful field to keep in mind when you try to bring randomness and random solution generation into creative processes: genetic algorithms.
Genetic algorithms show two interesting things, relative to randomness. First, genetic algorithms are scored based on how much faster they are than generating random solutions and checking them. Second, you don't actually need randomness to implement genetic algorithms!
All you need to pull off a genetic algorithm -- or any similar search algorithm -- is /a means of generating solutions similar ... (read more)