{"id":582,"date":"2017-02-27T12:58:50","date_gmt":"2017-02-27T12:58:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/psychictoday.uk\/blog\/?p=582"},"modified":"2017-02-27T12:58:50","modified_gmt":"2017-02-27T12:58:50","slug":"meditation-dali-einstein-brian-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psychictoday.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/27\/meditation-dali-einstein-brian-c\/","title":{"rendered":"Meditation- How Dali and Einstein napped creatively"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dali’s Mediation Technique<\/h1>\n

By Brian C<\/h2>\n

So, today’s article will describe a type of restful meditation which helps with creative thinking. This power napping (if you will) was practiced by creative men like Albert Einstein, Thomas Edison, and most famously Salvador Dali. It is even thought Aristotle himself practiced a form of this restful mindfulness meditation.<\/p>\n

These types of naps allow for the mind to enter into a lucid state of being, and allows us to tap in to the meditative conscientious to allow for greater creativity.\u00a0 Some might even argue that it allows the practitioner to enter in to higher dimensions of being.\u00a0 After all Edgar Cacye was called the sleeping psychic.\u00a0 But whether or not this allows one to enter into an extra dimensional state of being, is very much a point of debate.<\/p>\n

The MEDITATION of INSPIRATION<\/u><\/strong><\/h2>\n

It is this kind of short meditation of about 10-20 minutes, which bring inspiration into the mind. This kind of nap, or restful mediation \u00a0can be called hypnagogia.\u00a0 To paraphrase, hypnagogia is the experience of the transitional state from wakefulness to sleep. During this transition, the mind crosses the threshold of consciousness into lucid thought and dreaming.<\/p>\n

The meditation experience can essentially be described as \u201cdreaming while awake.\u201d Hypnagogia can be experienced both when you’re transitioning to falling asleep, and again when passing through Stage 1 on the way to waking up (it is then called hypnopompia).<\/p>\n

In this state, you are not in a full dream state, you are aware of everything that is around you. You are more in an altered state of being, a meditative state of being. You are allowing thoughts to enter into your mind but you\u2019re not holding on to them. The thoughts are like the wind passing through the leaves on the trees.\u00a0 It is explained this way \u201cthe sleeper may be aware of sounds and conversations, but feels unwilling, rather than unable to respond to them.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u00a0THE TECHNIQUE of DALI and EINSTEIN<\/u><\/strong><\/h2>\n

Now, if Einstein or Dali were looking for inspiration for a topic, they would visualize it and maybe write a sentence or two on a pad to bring the topic to focus. Then they would do the following to enter the meditative state:<\/p>\n