Can you dream your way to peace and creativity? 

REM sleep dreaming can help us process difficult emotions and open the door to new insights

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Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones routinely kept a guitar and tape recorder at his bedside to record ideas at night. 

In 1965, following a performance, he went to bed as usual. When he woke up, he saw that the tape had accidentally been left on and had run to the end. When he played it back, he heard a ghostly version of the opening lines of ‘Satisfaction’ followed by 45 minutes of snoring.