Confessions of an Outlaw: The Alchemy of Sleep Video Lecture | Confessions of an Outlaw: A Creativity Workshop - Self Help Learning

When I review or try to describe my creativity
I realize it’s a nonstop train and people
say yeah, well at some point you go to sleep.
Well actually this moment where we think we
rest when the brain is floating, you know,
in sleep is actually a moment where I could
be very creative in a very strange uncontrolled
way.
Metaphorically speaking of course if I put
a problem behind my pillow and fall asleep
very often because my brain went to sleep
with that idea or the problem alive, very
often in the middle of the night I wake up
and I wake up with a solution or with a direction
of solution.
And I always have a little notepad and a pen
because when I wake up in the middle of the
night if I don’t immediately jot the solution
to my problem it evaporates in thin air and
I wake up naturally the next morning having
forgotten the incident.
Even if you experiment that, if you fall asleep
with an idea that is not solved yet you might
very well wake up naturally or wake up, you
know, before you wake up naturally with some
sense of the solution and I find that fascinating
and it’s not something unique to me so try
it and you’ll be amazed too.