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Reserve the initial 90 minutes after waking for absolute input: curtains shut, phone in airplane mode, no verbal words. In a 2023 Berlin Polytechnic study, participants who devoted this window still on a shadowy porch produced 68 % additional "remote associates" ideas than counterparts who scrolled newsfeeds. EEG patterns uncovered a surge in theta oscillations (4–7 Hz) tied to hippocampal replay—the brain’s way of mixing disparate memories into fresh combinations. |