How do you harvest your ideas?

I've been exceptionally busy this weekend and thanks to the (dis)organisation of the M1 motorway (freeway), spent an unproductive and therefore, wasted 2 hours parked, along with thousands of others, on a 70MPH stretch.

Let me explain. One little classic Triumph broke down and the new innovation of 'Smart' motorways stopped the whole thing - completely shut it down. Yeah, real 'smart'.

Back to the subject in question. How do you harvest your ideas?

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I woke up a couple of times on Friday night / Saturday morning after a really vivid and comprehensive dream. I wrote them both down but I think I'll only be able to use one of the ideas.

Of course, part of the first dream included the compulsory running through molasses when trying to escape someone intent on doing harm. I remember running down the stairs, trying to get away, and turned around to run back up the stairs because the bad guy almost caught me.

As always, trying to grasp the dream and then explain it is nigh-on impossible, the facts and strategic points of the dream flit through your mind and resist every attempt to catch hold and study them. Like plaiting fog.

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Then, if you don't write it down immediately, a few hours after you wake up and go about your day, you've forgotten it - ALL of it!

It's odd that the simple act of writing down a few points from the dream enables you to remember it later.