“ Blumberg plays the drums, and, when he learns a new rhythm, he wonders whether sleep is involved. “You struggle and struggle for several days, then one day yo

“ Blumberg plays the drums, and, when he learns a new rhythm, he wonders whether sleep is involved. “You struggle and struggle for several days, then one day you wake up and start playing and boom—it’s automatic,” he said. “Did sleep play a role in that? If I had been recording my limb movements, would I have seen something interesting? That keeps me up at night.” As a musician whose spent many late nights practicing, I’ll be thinking about this all weekend. It took me a long time to give sleep the respect in my life it deserves! Same thinking applies to any problem solving for me, really. How often have you woke about after a refreshing sleep with an elusive solution readily apparent the next morning?