Are you one of "those" people that wake up at a specific hour each night? Or around the same time each night, or every so often? Are you one of "those" people that have an incredible idea in the dark, in the middle of the night, when everything is silent around you? But in your head is a whirlwind of ideas just boiling with excitement and just crying to come out? What do you do about it?
If you let it go and try to shut your mind off, you are shutting your inspiration. If you are trying to ignore it and are just mad at yourself for waking up at such hours, for no good reason, you are shutting your creativity down. If you are rolling around in your bed, tired, aggravated over the fact that you are not sleeping and trying to force yourself to get back to sleep after all you only have a few hours left and you have a big day tomorrow...you are blessed and don't even know it.
Yes, I am one of "those" people. At first, I would talk to myself, yes in my head... don't you? "Come on Annie, go back to sleep. Why am I not sleeping, too much caffeine, to many worries, financial problems, family problems, what is keeping me awake? Or is it the list of things to do that is so long and that you might have forgotten something that had to be done and you blew it?
However, one night I decided to just sit up and just write everything that was in my mind. My company was the thing that was waking me up, I had to do this or that the next day. Or I had to give marching orders for such and such a project. But I soon found out, that my mind was bombarded with all sorts of things... not only work. Then I started listening to ideas and then it gets interesting.
As I was preparing for bed, sitting at the edge of my bed, I would give myself my marching orders. I wanted to get ideas. It can be for anything. At first it was for fashion designing outfits. What I would do is lay down in bed and just close my eyes and try to see different things. If I wanted to be inspired by nature, I would imagine nature elements and eventually fall to sleep on it. It didn't take long that I would wake up with an incredible idea. At this point.... VERY IMPORTANT... do not think you will remember the next day. Chances are you probably won't. Or worse, you will remember you had this amazing idea and it will be sooo close to remembering, but again, the chances are you won't.
So you MUST at this point open the light and take your notebook and draw it out or write it out.
If you are not alone, at that moment and you want to have peace and not be disturbed and this becomes a habit... I would invest into a small light, flashlight any kind of little light that won't wake up the person next to you.
I find these nightly episodes a treasure trove. This is the best time, where the best ideas come out. What do I attribute this to? Probably the silence of the night, the lessen activity around us and meaning all around us even outside our home. A time where our brain sorts things out and finds the answers to our questions. A higher self in tune with what we need and what we are open to hear, listen or receive.
I believe it is a place where we can tap into ideas, creative sources and is a higher state than what we deal with on a daily basis.
You will be on a natural high even if you might feel somewhat tired. The exhilaration of the great idea, invention, poem, story, illustration or whatever idea you had, will well be worth it.
Notes: Look at the time you wake up and see if you always wake up around the same time... I wake up around 3 or 3h30...
Always have a pen, pencil and notebook, sketch pad
Light.
Write, draw just grab that idea!
Are you one of "those" people? Let me know. If you are on FB, just like if you are... i want to know how many of "those" people are out there.
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