What if the most creative and receptive hours of your day are not the ones you spend at your desk, or in a meeting, or staring at a problem? What if they are the hours when your body is completely still and your conscious mind has stepped aside? Sleep is not a break from the creative process — it may be the very heart of it. And most of us have never learned to use it intentionally.
Why Sleep Is Your Most Creative Time
The most creative time of your life is while you sleep — because that is when you ask the universe for answers. In order to enter into the fourth dimension, you must forget the body. Obviously, while you are asleep you are completely unaware of your body. This is the time when all questions can be answered and all ideas can come forward.
If you notice just before you go to sleep, you enter into a lucid dream state where you are half-awake and half-asleep. This is called the alpha state. The alpha state is a state where you are unaware of your body but you are still conscious. When you are in this lucid state, you feel creative. All kinds of ideas float around just before you go to sleep. There is almost a euphoria, as though you could create anything you wanted in your mind. When you enter into a deep sleep you leave that lucid state — but the idea world and the answers still exist in that deeper state.
How to Use Sleep Intentionally
All of this indicates that prior to going to sleep is the time to think of all the questions you have for the next day’s events. Not the next day’s problems — but the next day’s opportunities or events. The next day’s opportunity to solve problems, to not worry, and to create more. So we can ask questions to get solutions to issues in our lives, but we must stay out of worry for tomorrow and only ask for solutions.
Any question you have and any idea you want can be given to you in the fourth-dimensional world while you sleep. All you have to do is desire answers to the questions and the concepts for your ideas before you go to sleep — knowing that you cannot get the answers until you actually enter sleep. This law is important to remember: you cannot get the answers unless you go to sleep.
Recollecting What You Received
When you awake in the morning, find a quiet place and desire to recollect what the answers are to your questions, or the concepts to your ideas — and they will come. You must desire to recall what you were shown or told while you were sleeping. It will come in the form of intuition and inspiration, or it may come in words or images. This covers the full spectrum of the possible ways to receive your answers.
Remember the principle we have all heard: Ask and you shall receive. Knock and the door shall open.
What we are always asking for is the knowledge to achieve our soul’s desires, and the pathway to which to be guided. In God’s universe, do you not think that God would make the most of all moments — and not just the waking moments? Because in God’s universe there is no life or death, only transformation from one state to another state. We live in a body of action all day long, and equally we live in a body of rest all night long.
So as much as you create in the day, you also must create in the night. Go to sleep with intention. Ask your questions before you close your eyes. Then trust the answers will come when you open them again in the morning. You may be surprised at how much has been worked out while you slept.
- Sleep is not a break from creativity — in the alpha state and deep sleep, the mind is most receptive to answers and ideas
- The alpha state (half-awake, half-asleep) is characterized by euphoric creativity — this is the ideal window to plant questions
- Before sleep, ask for solutions — not for tomorrow’s problems to be solved, but for the right direction and ideas to arrive
- The law: you cannot receive the answers until you actually sleep — intention before sleep, not during it
- In the morning, before reaching for your phone, sit quietly and desire to recall what was revealed during the night
- God’s creativity does not stop when you stop — sleep is not lost time; it is a different dimension of the same creative process
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