#008 - Solving Creative Problems in Your Sleep
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What we've been discovering in the laboratory is that sleep will allow you to divine solutions to previously impenetrable problems, things that the waking brain couldn't solve.
— Matthew Walker, The Science of Better Sleep
I was watching Matthew Walker's masterclass on Sleep, the other day and he told a really interesting story about how Thomas Edison had a knack for solving creative problems in his sleep;