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Resources & Recommendations
Books
- "The Mezzanine" by Nicholson Baker - This book is recommended for its funny musings about everyday life and its short, enjoyable read.
Articles & Papers
- "How the brain moves from waking life to sleep and back again" (Quanta Magazine) by Yasmin Sapkolu - This article details the latest understanding of how the brain transitions between sleep and wakefulness, and between stages of sleep.
People Mentioned
- Salvador Dalí - A famously creative person who actively tried to enter a hypnagogic state to boost his creativity, as highlighted by his method of using a key and plate to wake himself up from early sleep.
- Thomas Edison - Another famously creative individual who, like Dalí, would use methods to awaken himself from the hypnagogic state, believing it enhanced his creativity.
- Edgar Allan Poe - Mentioned as a creative person who intuitively understood the benefits of the in-between state of sleep for creativity, without formal neurological knowledge.
- Alfred Lee Loomis - A Wall Street tycoon and amateur scientist from the 1930s who pioneered the use of electroencephalography (EEG) to study sleep and was the first to categorize sleep into various stages based on brain waves.
- Karen Conkley - A researcher who studied lucid dreaming as a postdoc at Northwestern, suggesting that the process of falling asleep requires releasing control over thoughts, which could be a source of creativity.
- Mike Wallace - Featured in a 1958 interview clip with Salvador Dalí, discussing Dalí's creative process and relationship with sleep.
Organizations & Institutions
- Paris Brain Institute - A research group that conducted a study testing if people became more creative after waking up from the earliest sleep stage (N1 or hypnagogic state).
- University of Lausanne in Switzerland - Conducted a recent study that figured out the EEG signature of waking up and observed different waking patterns from non-REM and REM sleep.
- Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas - Provided a clip of an interview with Salvador Dalí.
- Bentley Library at the University of Michigan - Also provided a clip of an interview with Salvador Dalí.
Other Resources
- EEG (Electroencephalogram) - A tool used by researchers to look at brain waves during sleep and awakeness, allowing them to categorize sleep stages based on changes in brain activity and neuron synchronization.