How to Train Your Brain

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Maybe you didn’t know that the brain keeps working while you sleep and can often solve difficult problems that you couldn’t solve when you were fully awake.  With a little direction, the brain will continue to focus during sleep on the same things that concerned you during your waking hours. The brain experts know about this and have a formula that they say will help anyone get more out of the brain than you might suspect.   Here is what the experts say is the way to get your brain to solve a problem during sleep.

 

1.  Describe your problem in writing.  Make the description as concise as possible and place the written note near your bed.  Store a pencil by it.

 

2.  Read the problem over before you retire so it is fixed in your mind.

 

3.  Before you sleep, picture yourself dreaming about the problem with as much detail as possible, and visualize awakening and writing on your bedside tablet.

 

4.  As you drop off to sleep, remind your brain that you want to dream about the problem. The average person has five dream episodes each night and hopefully one of them will have to do with the problem you are trying to solve.

 

5.  When you awaken, lie quietly in bed and try to recall as much of the content of your dreams as possible.  Write it down. 

 

 People who practice these techniques regularly are able to have one or two lucid and productive dreams a week.  Here are some other things about dreams that the experts have discovered in recent years:

 

Sleeping for a while after learning something new results in much better recall than after spending the same amount of time awake.  If you chance to wake up after a dream episode, you will recall more about the dream content than you will be able to recall the next morning.

 

That’s a good start on an interesting and complex subject.   Hopefully it will bring you some productive dreams.  

 

Gregory B. Anderson–director