Twilight Zoning – An Unusual Source of Story Imagination

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People ask me where I get my story ideas. Like everyone else, I answer, seeing something, hearing something, being somewhere. To be honest, though, my best ideas come at that brief moment at predawn, between sleep and consciousness. I like to call it Twilight Zoning, a cooler name for Stage 5 or REM sleep.

REM sleep , or rapid eye movement (also known as paradoxical sleep), accounts for 20–25% of total sleep time in most human adults. The criteria for REM sleep include...