Ideas on the verge of sleep. Free Dating, Singles and Personals

Ideas on the verge of sleep. Posted: 6/27/2005 8:49:16 PM
Consciousness is variable anytime to reproduce those kinds of transitions such as falling asleep. It helps when thinking and writing to be able to change one's mental state, in order to access the variations of thought. You can develop any aspect of consciouness by paying attention to it. It's like building muscle and increasing reps. If you choose something in particular to dream about as you go to sleep at night, it may or may not appear in a directly recognizeable form when you dream, but the impetus behind the choice will be served. A typical night's sleep consists of 5-6 roughly 90-minute cycles, each having a dream component, whith light to full awakening between. I will sometimes notice myself awake asa sleep cycle ends in a dream, and I will think on the dream a bit then fall back asleep. In this way my conscious, yet sleepy, thoughts influence my dreams. I find that intuition is influenced by dreams, or there is some other kind of relationship, so that in the course of a week there will be themes visited in relaxed moments. Often when I am writing I lean back and daydream to the point of being only just aware of my surroundings. It is similar to what you have described falling asleep. I call it reverie, but it is probably something else. Some people keep a dream journal by their bed so that they can easily roll over and jot dot a sentence or two, trying to capture the essence of these semi-conscious insights. When you stop to notice how your waking thoughts work, they are largely images just like dreams, only with the real world in view they tend to be much more coherent in that they are set against the unchanging backdrop of what you see with your eyes. Close your eyes and it gets a lot more like dreaming. I have only invented one thing while sleeping. The rest of thos turned out to be nonsense the next morning. But I routinely have ideas pop into mind when I am think of something else, as if my mind was working on them in the back ground and the results show up as soon as they are ready. In my work this happens all the time. I feed my mind with information, pose the problem, and then just wait for a solution to materialize at some random moment. Creativity is a partly magical thing, and it seems to like when we loose our grasp on the duller patterns of strictly rational thought. it seems to reward us when we drift towards fanciful thinking.