STUDY: LEARNING TO USE DREAMS FOR PROBLEM SOLVING

Posted on October 1, 2009 by Jeffrey Newman

“Dream incubation” is a developing technique for training yourself to use dreams to solve problems. In a study at Harvard Medical School, dr. Deidre Barrett had her students focus on a problem such as an unsolved homework problem, before going to sleep each night for a week. Two thirds of the participants had dreams that addressed their chosen problems and one third actually came up with a solution. See the book THE COMMITTEE OF SLEEP: HOW ARTISTS, SCIENTISTS AND ATHELETES CAN USE THEIR DREAMS FOR CREATIVE PROBLEM SOLVING-AND HOW YOU CAN TOO. Crown Books/Random House, 2001