National Geographic Magazine reported,
"people who took naps featuring REM sleep-in which dreams are most vivid-performed better on creativity-oriented word problems."
Sara Mednick, the psychiatrist who led the study found that,
"REM, or rapid eye movement sleep, helped people combine ideas in new ways."
That's cool, isn't it!?
So, here's a fun way to use your crazy dreams - admit it, you have them too - to combine new ideas.
This exercise will help you slow down and strengthening your creative powers while having some fun too.
Let's Go To Disneyland
The dream I had early this morning inspired this post and the exercise that goes along with it. For some crazy reason, I dreamt I was at a conference and one of the keynote speakers brought all of the Disney characters, or I should say people dressed as the Disney characters, onto the stage.
I can't even recall his purpose for doing so, but when I woke up I immediately thought, "how can I use this crazy dream as a creative exercise?" Here is what I came up with.
Take one Disney character - let's use Mickey Mouse for this example - and write a story with him as the POTUS (President of The United States), or the Pope, or an NFL star quarterback, or any real-life character you want to choose. 
Write two types of stories. One that is serious and one that is as humorous as you can make it.
I would love to read your stories when they're done, so feel free to post them right here in the comments section, or email them to Mike: mikeallisoncoaching@gmail.com
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