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Perhaps unrelated, but when I'm incredibly fatigued and on the verge of sleep, my memory seems to acquire an almost savant quality. For example, I can will arbi
by archagon 5y ago
Perhaps unrelated, but when I'm incredibly fatigued and on the verge of sleep, my memory seems to acquire an almost savant quality. For example, I can will arbitrary images to appear in my mind's eye, or effortlessly invoke the vocal tics and subtle inflections of people I've been close to, and generate muted mental conversations in their voice — something I'm never able to do during ordinary waking hours. It's like briefly unlocking a superpower. I wonder if the brain operates in a different way in those liminal spaces between sleep and waking.
- stef25 5y agoWhen my toddlers wake me up in the middle of the night to pee, their vocabulary, speech and general lucidity is better than any other time during the day. Very weird.
- varjag 5y agoApparently it's a common phenomenon. Hans Selye in his _From Dream to Discovery: On Being a Scientist_ recommends always keeping a pen and notepad bedside, since breakthrough thoughts often gestate in twilight of sleep.