1. A CRASH COURSE ON
CREATIVITY
CHALLENGE ASSUMPTIONS #2
2012

2. 1 -Sleep in a bubble plastic and burst the bubbles to listen a more relaxing
noise!
2- Download an App that makes you wanna sleep.
3- Create an imaginary friend that wears cute pijamas
4- Create an imaginary friend that helps you count to 1000 until you sleep
5- Count to 1000 by yourself
6- Invent a machine that plays with your hair
7 -Drink a tea made of passion fruit and camomile
8 -Create a sleep fictitious entity and say a pray for it.
9- buy a tomography machine and sleep inside of it
10 -make a fake isolating capsule with cardboard or other material you like
11 -Pierce your eardrums with Torture objects.
12 -Put play dough in your ears
13- Become Mr Potato Head of Toy Story and don’t use the ears.
14-Put your head in a water bucket so your ears would be blocked
15 -hire a lawyer and see if you could go on justice to solve your problem
16 -Drink up to you faint
17 -Go live in another planet
18 -Smoke marijuana
19 -Take hallucinogens teas
20 -try hipnose
21- read until you’re asleep
22- fill your room with balloons filled with little Styrofoam balls.
23- create a game in which you have to stay awake to win points – it will
probably work with the reverse technique, and you will be so worried about
staying up that you will fall asleep.
24- try meditation
25 -do lots of physical exercise until you’re so tired you will sleep anyway

3. 26 -put the fireplace channel on tv
27 -buy a cd with whistled music
28 -Singing mantras
29- Use the silence cone from Agent 86 (Get Smart movie)
30- Rent a booth at a capsule hotel in Japan to sleep alone in a claustrophobic
way
31- Wear a hearing protector
32- Pretend you are Van Gogh and CUT your ear out.
33- Do an intense sleeping training into a noisy truck, so you Will get used to
worst noises.
34 Only imagine the silence
35- Imagine that you are at Savannah
36- listen to indian songs
37- Drink water with sugar
38 -make tiny rolls of paper and pretend they are sleeping pills, so it will have a
placebo effect
39- go to a doctor and see if there is an alternative way to get to sleep
40 -take actual sleeping pills
41- Make a booth of blankets in a isolated room of your house
42 -Use headphones
43- Buy good quality speakers and play relaxing music
44- Play the sound of the rain
45 -Hire a harp player to play for you every night

4. 46 -Build a big bubble like the simpsons one (in the movie) against the noite
47 -Cover your house with egg boxes
48- buy an universal remote control and put the world on mute
49- Invent a pillow with the sides higher than the middle – overstuffed- to muffle
the sound
50 -Transform your room into a big aquarium and install an oxygen tank in it for
you to put your bed and sleep
51-Cover your Windows with Styrofoam
52- Change your windows for one that has double glass.
53- work at night and sleep in the morning (change shifts)
54 -help promoting another stablishment to compete with the one that disturbs
you that is far from your house.
55 -put on a blue light bulb in your room,the colour has got a low frequency and
calms you down
56- play a cd with lullabies
57 -ask someone to sing you soft kitty (Sheldon Cooper – the bigbang theory)
58 -call the power rangers to help you fight the noisy people
59- spread posters through your neighborhood informing the problem you’re
having
60 - try and organize a meeting with your neighbors to see if you could do a
petition so the noisy places won’t be open until so late
61 - Turn on your radio louder than your neighbors
62 - Don't sleep, ultil you can’t stand it anymore
63 - Live near the mountains.
64 - kill your neighboors
65 - buy an oxygen booth and go live on the ocean
66 -use the old trick of put a pillow over your head
67 - buy a desert Island and go live there
68- sleep in your parents house
69 - enjoy your neighboors party
70 – buy a water bed and feel relaxed with the sound of the water

5. 71- try setting your alarm up for one hour before the time you use to wake up,
so at night you’ll feel more tired and will sleep more easily
72- try making a tent inside your house and put sound isolating material
surrounding it
73- try using a sleeping bag and decorate your room with jungle motives, so
you’d feel the adrenaline of sleeping in adverse conditions and will sleep after
some time
74- try finding a group of anonymous people who suffer from the same thing as
you
75 – try the laughter therapy
76 – go to yoga classes
77- open your own business at night, so you’ll work at the time you wouldn’t
sleep anyway and could sleep in the daytime
78 – sleep inside your car
79 - bathing very hot and long term pressure lowering and you go limp and
sleepy
80 - make chocolate milk to feel snug
81 - use a blanket from childhood, if you have one
82 – kill yourself
83- burn the stablishment