If You Woke Up At 2.30am Feeling Fresh, Would You Go Back To Sleep, Or Get Up?
Sleep Chemicals, Morning pages and Creative Naps.
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Sleep Chemicals, Morning pages and Creative Naps.
How to get into a peak creative state and capture that creative magic for future use.
Let’s start with a question, if you woke up at 2.30am tomorrow feeling fresh, would you get right up or go back to sleep?
I started using an app that tracks your sleep and gives you feedback about things like sleep debt & energy management - one of the things it thought me is that the first 90 minutes of every day tend to be unproductive, because the body takes that long to clear out all the sleep chemicals.
Well the sleep chemical induced state seems like precisely the kind of state you want to be in when doing creative work.
I’ve read a lot of anecdotal stuff that raves about the the space adjacent to waking up, some artist (myself included) go as far as attempt to induce that state with the careful and ‘scientific’ use of naps.
