Ideas on Demand: A crash course on creativity. Bust creativity blocks, 10x your ideas, and become an idea machine. (10x Impact)

by Miliind Harrdas

Here are a few steps that you can carry out to ensure that you find a solution to your problem in the dream and remember the whole dream. Before going to bed, keep a paper and pen ready. Just before drifting off to sleep, mentally say this to yourself, “I want to remember a dream, and I am going to remember a dream.” (This I learned from Silva Method of Mind Control. I will talk more about it in a short while.) You will wake up after a dream. Immediately grab your pen and paper and note it down. Practice it for a few days. Once you are satisfied that you can remember your dreams, it’s now time to take up your challenge in hand. Bring about the intense focus, the way I have described earlier. This time, just before sleep, say, “I want to have a dream that will contain the solution to the problem that I have in my mind, and I am going to remember it”. Most likely, you will see the solution in the dream. Write it down. Some of you may think it a little far-fetched. Just try it out. Be a little patient, and you will be surprised with the results.

Creative people have always known – sleep enhances their creativity. So, whenever they get stuck with a problem, they leave it there and revisit it the next morning. On many occasions, they could quickly solve it by using some creative angle.

The mind that is fresh after sleep is more receptive to the ideas from the subconscious mind.

Salvador Dali, well known for his surrealist paintings, invented a method he called “Slumber with a key”. During the afternoon, Dali would sit on a chair with a key in his hand. Beneath the key, he would keep a plate arranged upside down. Then he would let himself drift off to sleep. The moment he was about to fall asleep, the key dropped from his hand and fell on the plate. The noise of the key falling on the plate would awaken him, often with artistic ideas.

Our brain transmits different types of frequencies depending upon the individual’s conscious state, which can be measured using EEG. During the wakeful state, we emit prominently beta waves. In a relaxed state, we emit a slower alpha wave. Theta waves are even slower, characterized by drowsiness and the onset of REM sleep. Delta brain waves are the slowest that represent deep sleep, whereas gamma brain waves are the fastest that represent heightened alertness or concentration.

The power of the subconscious mind can impact so many aspects of your life, and a lot is already written about it.

For your subconscious mind, your belief about your creative ability is the command. And it will faithfully go on to make your command a reality.

Your subconscious mind expects trust and encouragement. One way your subconscious mind knows how much you trust it is through your actions.

Bertrand Russell wrote in The Conquest of Happiness: “I have found, for example, that, if I have to write upon some rather difficult topic, the best plan is to think about it with very great intensity — the greatest intensity of which I am capable — for a few hours or days, and at the end of that time give orders, so to speak, that the work is to proceed underground. After some months, I return consciously to the topic and find that the work has been done.”