Sleep Thinking: The Revolutionary Program That Helps You Solve Problems, Reduce Stress, and Increase Creativity While You Sleep [Paperback]

Eric Maisel (Author), Natalya Maisel (Contributor), Eric Maisel (Author), Natalya Maisel (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 2001

Imagine solving problems and increasing creativity while you sleep. In Sleep Thinking, Dr. Eric Maisel introduces a simple but revolutionary program grounded in current brain research that shows us how to do just that -- think while we sleep.

Readers will meet several ordinary people and see them work the sleep thinking program to solve their important problems as they sleep, including:
-- Nancy who works through her failing interest in college
-- Jack, an electrical engineer who is having anger management problems.
-- Thirty-six-year-old Joanne who uses sleep thinking to help her understand how to help her eighth grader stop his slide into school failure.

The sleep thinker uses his or her own brain power to extract important information from the fruits of sleep thinking. The answers that arrive lead to actions, which lead to change.

Few people can afford not to explore the power of sleep thinking. In this book, Eric Maisel teaches readers how to use the full power of the brain and learn to make use of this idea management and life purpose clarification tool called sleep thinking.

Product Details

• Paperback: 240 pages
• Publisher: Adams Media Corporation (January 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1580624456
• ISBN-13: 978-1580624459
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.1 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #168,839 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #98 in Books > Health, Fitness & Dieting > Mental Health > Dreams

Customer Reviews

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49 of 52 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This book is great!, February 5, 2001

By 

Douglas A. Millison (El Cerrito, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sleep Thinking: The Revolutionary Program That Helps You Solve Problems, Reduce Stress, and Increase Creativity While You Sleep (Paperback)

I bought Sleep Thinking, started following the method a couple of weeks ago, and I'm already seeing results. I'm waking up earlier in the morning, and getting work done on a creative writing project that I've been putting off for too long. I'm encouraging all of my friends and colleagues to buy the book and start sleep thinking. The book is well-written, clear and easy to understand, with well-chosen examples that should make it easy for a broad spectrum of people to apply sleep thinking to a broad range of needs, for creative, personal, school, and business enrichment. Do yourself a favor, get this book and start sleep thinking.

30 of 31 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Let your sleeping take the strain out of problem solving, July 9, 2003

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kyara - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sleep Thinking: The Revolutionary Program That Helps You Solve Problems, Reduce Stress, and Increase Creativity While You Sleep (Paperback)

If you need a little help getting problems sorted out personally or professionally, this is a great book to assist you in that endeavour by a simple technique - sleeping on it. Eric Maisel has constructed an easy-to-follow step-by-step method to harness our unconscious in solving what seems in broad daylight to be the unsolvable. He provides several typical case studies including work problems, artist's block and having a problem with a roommate. Writing down and refining the key issues surrounding the problem and keeping a dream journal are recommended. Solutions may not necessarily appear after the first night's sleep on it. The whole process may take a few days or several months. But once you get into the habit of sleep thinking it becomes easier. This technique is very similar to various meditation techniques I have come across, but sleep thinking is a more comprehensive and constructive approach. I believe it also provides more possibilities because you are not continuously consciously focused on the problem you are trying to solve.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars What are you working on when you're asleep?, October 8, 2008

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Kyrsten Bell "Writing Scout" (Idaho, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sleep Thinking: The Revolutionary Program That Helps You Solve Problems, Reduce Stress, and Increase Creativity While You Sleep (Paperback)

Eric Maisel is one of the top creativity coaches in the US and has 30 books out. He's published in both fiction and non-fiction.

I had an opportunity a few months ago to hear Dr. Maisel speak in person. Everything he said resonated deeply with my own experiences. He answered many of my half-formed questions about my creativity, depression, obstacles, and frustrations.

I bought several of his books on Amazon...including "Sleep Thinking."

I'm about three-quarters of the way through the book, and am impressed by the topics he's touched on. In his presentation he brought up recent sleep research which found when we are asleep we are dreaming part of the time - of course - and thinking about questions and issues from our waking life the rest of the time.

This book helps you to figure out how to direct your mind to think about the problems you want to solve or the next step in your creative pursuit while you're asleep. I have no wonderful stories to share about my success in this area, but I've found using his techniques help me sleep better and feel calmer. I consider that a move in the right direction all by itself.

I've also read his book "Deep Writing" which is also unique and insightful in different directions.