Scientists of the University of Sorbonne in France found out that it is possible to increase the ability to work, if you wake up immediately after falling asleep. This is reported in an article published in the journal Science Advances.
Researchers decided to prove the effectiveness of the method used by the Surrealist Artist Salvador Dali and the inventor Thomas Edison. According to him, after a focused thinking, the problem must be in the hands of a heavy item. When a person falls asleep, he drops the subject and wakes up, after which he writes the thoughts that came to him in the head immediately after waking up.
It is known that most people have a phase of sleep N1 – a short interval between wakefulness and a full-fledged sleep. The study was attended by 103 people who kept a cup in their hands when floating. Before this, they were given sequences of eight numbers, and it was necessary to find out with the help of two mathematical principles what the next number should be. However, this number was always the same as the second in the sequence. Each of the volunteers provided probes for measuring brainwave to determine if they really fell asleep.
People who entered the N1 phase and came out of it during awakening, with a greater probability determined the low-imaging method of solving a numerical problem – 83 percent of them guessed this compared to only 30 percent of those who did not fall asleep during the experiment. Since this required creative thinking, scientists believe that the used technique allows to improve creativity.