Last semester (Fall 2000) I was working on a project for Digital Electronics Class. Stan and I were building 4X1 SRAM (Static Random Access Memory, “Memory circuit”). We spend a lot of time to design and build the circuit. We build three memory cell using logic gates and one using n-MOS transistors. Everything was performing properly except the memory cell build with n-MOS. I have spend 15-18 hours to solve the problem, but it was a total failure.

I have a habit of thinking of my current problems for 15 - 20 minutes before I go to sleep. One night I was dreaming that I am solving the problem. This dream was much different than my usual dreams. The dream felt like, it was a real life incident.

After the dream, if I may call it a dream, I mysteriously woke up. Immediately I wrote down the steps I took in the dream to solve the problem. After an analysis over the steps, I reached to a conclusion that it was the solution that I have been searching for.

The next day, I went to the Electronics lab and build the circuit according to the dream. As I expected, the circuitry was working perfectly. In fact we scored perfect on the project. It is still a mystery to me whether " it was a Dream or a Message".