Following on from my entry regarding sleep (29th November) the December 2008 Brainstorm E-Bulletin from Jurgen Wolff www.timetowrite.blogs.com / www.yourwritingcoach.com highlighted the The creative power of sleep. Research is revealing more about the importance of sleep in the creative process. I've written before, he writes, about how writers, inventors, scientists and others often have an "aha!" moment that reveals the solution to some puzzling problem, either in a dream or immediately upon waking. Recent research at Harvard, conducted by Dr. Jeffrey Ellenbogen, suggests that if the time you spend trying to find a solution includes a period of sleep, you are 33% more likely to make creative connections. In other words, you're more creative after sleep, even in the absence of those aha! moments.
ACTION: the next time you're stuck - sleep on it! Short naps (15 to 20 minutes) are best, otherwise you go into a deep sleep cycle and will wake up groggy if you don't sleep for the entire 90 minutes.
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