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People with narcolepsy may be more creative because of how they sleep

18 June 2019

Creativity tests reveal that people with narcolepsy are more inventive, perhaps because they rapidly enter the dream state in which we have unusual experiences
Dream on: My year pursuing the third state of being

Dream on: My year pursuing the third state of being

20 December 2018

Dreaming can bring extraordinary ideas – if you can remember them.  The 3rd article of our 12 Days of Culture explores the weird world of hypnagogic dreaming

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