I Work In My Sleep
“When we dream, we get the pieces. When we wake, we can know the whole” — How to maximize the time you spend asleep.
While we sleep, our brains replay, process, learn, and extract meaning. Essentially, they think.
I remember when I was in college, I overloaded my schedule every semester and took extra classes while interning or freelancing part-time. While this did result in a rather high level of stress and anxiety, I always enjoyed the jobs I took up (a lot more than school in fact), and hence wanted to turn those opportunities down.
It became a norm for me to fall asleep while doing a tutorial at night, and continue working through the particular math problem while I was asleep — and make actual progress which I would occasionally recall when I woke up. I was literally reworking the problems in my head until I found a solution to them!
More recently, I have been working on building my own travel tech startup, Gulliver, and am currently in the phase of conducting user tests for the alpha launch. I found myself conducting a whole entire user test the other night, waking up multiple times throughout the night after conducting each segment of the test in my sleep, just to consolidate my thoughts. Absolutely WILD.
