{"id":13354,"date":"2013-11-18T04:46:28","date_gmt":"2013-11-18T04:46:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2013\/11\/18\/most-people-dr-ellenbogen-says-think-of-the\/"},"modified":"2013-11-18T04:46:28","modified_gmt":"2013-11-18T04:46:28","slug":"most-people-dr-ellenbogen-says-think-of-the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2013\/11\/18\/most-people-dr-ellenbogen-says-think-of-the\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"
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Most people, Dr. Ellenbogen says, think of the sleeping brain as similar to a computer that has \u201cgone to sleep\u201d \u2014 it does nothing productive. Wrong. Sleep enhances performance, learning and memory. Most unappreciated of all, sleep improves creative ability to generate aha! moments and to uncover novel connections among seemingly unrelated ideas.<\/p>\n

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Some sort of incubation period, in which a person leaves an idea for a while, is crucial to creativity. During the incubation period, sleep may help the brain process a problem.<\/p>\n

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Dr. Ellenbogen\u2019s research at Harvard indicates that if an incubation period includes sleep, people are 33 percent more likely to infer connections among distantly related ideas, and yet, as he puts it, these performance enhancements exist \u201ccompletely beneath the radar screen.\u201d In other words, people are more creative after sleep, but they don\u2019t know it.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Here\u2019s the science<\/a>\u00a0to\u00a0the creative benefits of sleep, aptly called “the greatest creative aphrodisiac.”<\/a>\u00a0Decades earlier, T. S. Eliot championed the notion of “idea incubation”<\/a>\u00a0and even longer ago, Thomas Edison used power-naps as his secret weapon<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Pair with the science of what happens when you sleep and how it affects your every waking moment<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Most people, Dr. Ellenbogen says, think of the sleeping brain as similar to a computer that has \u201cgone to sleep\u201d \u2014 it does nothing productive. Wrong. Sleep enhances performance, learning and memory. Most unappreciated of all, sleep improves creative ability to generate aha! moments and to uncover novel connections among seemingly unrelated ideas. [\u2026] Some … <\/p>\n

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