Where do your Answers & Bright Ideas come from?

Since childhood. I seem to go to sleep with many things

on my mind, and wake up with things on my mind and sometimes in between, wake

straight up. It’s the perfect problem- both benefits and negatives.

The benefits are that I have learned to keep a writing utensil near to capture

things as they float from my subconscious to conscious. And I don’t mean the

part where I am flying through fields and over cities! I have found answers to

problems, and ideas for creative holes that my conscious did not immediately

supply me. Of course the downside is not enough REM type of sleep.

So earlier this year I started working on trying to clear my mind and think

relaxing thoughts prior to sleep. I also don’t go to sleep until I am tired,

not trying to force it. The result? Not enough ideas! At least I am not

capturing as many as before. I have plenty of ideas they are just in my

conscious mind, and the subconscious ones are not bleeding through. So what

should I do? I do have to admit that I find myself thinking a bit more while

driving. Like deep thoughts. And on flights too. And I am capturing those

thoughts along the way. So maybe my thoughts are transitioning to the conscious

mind? Does it matter?

The Dalai Lama says “Sleep is the best medication” John Steinbeck said “It is

a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning

after the committee of sleep has worked on it.” Maybe I want to go back to being

more like Henry David Thoreau who said “I put a piece of paper under my pillow,

and when I can’t sleep, I write in the dark.”

Steve

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