Creative night shift in 101 words 48/101

“Sleep on it”. Three of my favourite and most effective words.

James Webb Young’s wonderful explanation of the creative process (see above) perfectly explains in chapter 4 why this is such sound advice.

The human brain has an extraordinary ability to sift the knowledge wheat from the noise chaff whilst the rest of our faculties take a well earned rest. Which explains why your bedtime knot of confusion has unravelled in the morning to form clean threads of logic.

No doubt a psychologist will one day explain the phenomenon, until then I will continue going to bed blissfully and expectantly confused.