Comments on: Tapping Your Superconscious: 1-Second Nap Your Way to Powerful Solutions

By: successbootcamp

successbootcamp — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 22:53:41 +0000

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By: Paz

Paz — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 18:32:06 +0000

Also important to note that the human mind enters a state close to hyposis as the body falls asleep and wakes up.

Also thanx for the info very enlightening.

By: Dennnis

Dennnis — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 04:17:50 +0000

superb!

thanx!

By: Rebecca

Rebecca — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 12:24:21 +0000

This is a great discussion. Thanks for letting me chime in. What works best for me, a professional writer, is running. The ideas start percolating up and generally I have several to write down by the time I get back to the car.

By: Isola Busuyi

Isola Busuyi — Mon, 21 Aug 2006 09:11:37 +0000

I am writing a doctoral paper on this subject. If you know business leaders that have successfully used this technique in the past to achieve great result please e-mail me about it. I need at least 40 stories from any part of the world. I will send you a free copy of one of my books for every story I get. Thanks.

By: dr. ken winston caine

dr. ken winston caine — Sat, 15 Jul 2006 04:20:08 +0000

There is extreme value in entering a twilight dream state briefly for problem solving.

Some people, I am certain, do this naturally. I know. I am one.

Others may find it difficult, but I suspect by practicing relaxation and breathing and guided imagery techniques, that they can train themselves to develop this capability.

As, I said, for some it is natural. As is synesthesia. I thought both were natural for everybody until about a decade ago when, in my early 40s, I had my first sleep latency test and learned that there is a medical diagnosis for this ability to close your eyes and enter dream state within 60 to 90 seconds at will. It’s called narcoplepsy or hypnogogic thinking.

Less than 10 percent of the population does this consistently, I was told.

(I learned at about the same time that most people don’t visualize shapes and colors when listening to music. That’s synesthesia. Since I had both of these “conditions” from childhood onward, I had assumed that they are just part of being human and common to all. Was quite a surprise to find out otherwise.)

Apparently, according to sleep-latency clinic studies, it takes the “average” person about 12 to 20 minutes to drift into the hypnogogic state.

It is at that point, using the technique cited in the article, that you would drop your ball bearings and awaken from a “one-second dream.”

I have found my creativity and productivity enhanced — particularly when writing books — by working until I am stuck, or feeling sleepy, and then taking a 20-minute nap (right in my office), expecting to awaken refreshed, unstuck, and eager to return to writing. Nearly always works.

This involves what some might consider a highly eccentric behavior, that is, working around the clock and sleeping in 20-minute spurts rather than for one extended eight-hour period every 24 hours.

Works well for me, when I choose to do it, even if it does not fit social expectations.

I’ve never done this for more than a couple month’s at a time. And have never done it when I wasn’t deeply devoted to a single creative project.

It has seemed like part of the creative discipline and focus to me at those times.

I think it would be difficult to practice this while working an 8 to 5 shift in an office and keeping scheduled appointments.

Best,
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By: Carol

Carol — Tue, 04 Jul 2006 19:28:37 +0000

This is just hypnosis, or alpha/theta thinking. We all go through this state when waking up or falling asleep as well as, with our eyes open, when reading an exciting book, or driving on the highway.
In hypnosis, with the hypnotist, we expand this state so that you don’t need to figure it out in one second. But, you can see things from a different perspective and accept ideas and perceptions from deeper parts of your subconscious.

By: Brad Isaac

Brad Isaac — Fri, 23 Jun 2006 03:06:57 +0000

By Oreilly? I hadn’t heard of that book yet. I’ll have to look it up.

Anybody else read it?

By: Matt Vance

Matt Vance — Fri, 23 Jun 2006 02:54:03 +0000

I just read about this idea recently in the book “Mind Performance Hacks.” The book has some great info on the idea along with lots of other interesting hacks.

By: Kip

Kip — Wed, 21 Jun 2006 04:33:02 +0000

I too can fall into dreams before I even fall asleep. I think the majority of sleep research is based on a conservative model, and likely the average person is pretty sleep-screwed, which skews the data toward unremarkable results. Further, much research is ‘cleared of noise’, meaning they omit data outside of the (sometimes pre-designated) curve.

The only things that aren’t possible are what you think aren’t. And though drugs can aid…the body is far more powerful without them. Artifice is abdication.