Lately, I’ve been having so many funny ideas in the middle of the night.
For those of you who don’t know this, I always carry around a notebook and a pen.
I also only have nightmares when I sleep, so I’m constantly waking up (perhaps the nightmare issue is more interesting than the paper/pen situation, but whatever…).
Fortunately, my constant “wake ups” throughout the night allow me to constantly recall the dreams (nightmares) that I have, allowing me to essentially generate new ideas and stories while I’m sleeping. Whenever I wake up in the middle of the night, I’ll be half-awake, and I’ll instinctually think of some funny twist on my nightmare. Then, I’ll write it in my notebook, being only semi-conscious, waking up in the morning to see the multiple notes that I wrote throughout the night. Virtually every time I wake up in the morning to look at the notes I wrote down throughout the night (the notes that seemed so funny to me when I was half-awake), I realize that my subconscious must have a very dark sense of humor, because all of these notes only come across as morbid once I’m fully conscious.
My sleep-mind develops some bizarre ideas.
BIZARRE IDEAS.
Until next time,
Michael J. Erickson, CEO & Co-Founder
