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The twilight time between fully awake and sound asleep may be packed with creative potential.
The results help demystify the fleeting early moments of sleep and may even point out ways to boost creativity.
Prolific inventor and catnapper Thomas Edison was rumored to chase those twilight moments. He was said to fall asleep in a chair holding two steel ball bearings over metal pans. As he drifted off, the balls would fall. The ensuing clatter would wake him, and he could rescue his inventive ideas before they were lost to the depths of sleep.
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The twilight time between fully awake and sound asleep may be packed with creative potential.
People who recently drifted off into a light sleep later had problem-solving power , scientists report December 8 in Science Advances. The results help demystify the fleeting early moments of sleep and may even point out ways to boost creativity.
Prolific inventor and catnapper Thomas Edison was rumored to chase those twilight moments. He was said to fall asleep in a chair holding two steel ball bearings over metal pans. As he drifted off, the balls would fall. The ensuing clatter would wake him, and he
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