Night Brilliance - The Sleep Thinker's Guide to Powerful Problem-Solving

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), an estimated 50-70 million adults in the United States experience chronic sleep deprivation. The average American sleeps for only 5.7 hours a night, 2 hours less than the recommended minimum. With Dr. Maisel’s help, readers can learn how to snooze sooner and spend their hours in bed productively!
An expert on the effect of stress on sleep, Dr. Eric Maisel has innovated a way to manage anxiety and stress using the power of your own mind. A fresh and unexpected approach to problem-solving, Maisel participated in leading a study on various aspects of sleep. A positive and surprising discovery from this study, people can “assign” themselves a problem to solve during sleep and awaken with potential solutions. Night Brilliance is not only a guide to this practice for readers, but also a space to record your feelings and findings. It also provides ways to sleep more, more deeply, and relax sooner.
Why does this work so well?
According to Dr. Maisel and his colleagues’ study, when you’re asleep, you’re not simultaneously working, scrolling, or multitasking in any way. You have your full mind dedicated to solving issues that arise during the day.

List of contents

Introduction 
1. The Mother of Thoughts 
2. Let Me Sleep On It 
3. Waking Necessities 
4. The Beauty of Oblivion 
5. Much Too Economical 
6. The Quiet Classroom 
7. More Than Ourselves 
8. Our Richly Colored Night 
9. The Better Half of Life 
10. Oh, Thoughtful Night! 
11. Wider Than the Sky 
12. Confident Sleep 
13. Free-Rein Sleep 
14. Thinking Harder 
15. We Are Not Hypocrites 
16. A World of Our Own 
17. Sleep Thinking Responsibility 
18. Day Work 
19. Collaborations with the Universe 
20. Where to Start? 
21. Conscious Exploration 
22. Vague Days, Logical Conclusions 
23. Your Thoughts and Affections 
24. What You Choose to Focus On 
25. Anxious Bedtime 
26. Background Anxiety 
27. Bedtime Routines 
28. Careful Prompting 
29. Inviting Change 
30. Begin in Wonder 
31. I’ll Take Care of That 
32. When Things Come Alive 
33. The Pact 
34. The Right Question 
35. Morning Is Best 
36. Hello, Solution 
37. Interpretations 
38. Connecting the Dots 
39. Applying Knowledge 
40. Practicalities 
41. Obey the Night 
42. Not Swift, Not Easy 
43. The Conviction to Repeat 
44. The Loom of Life Never Stops 
45. Longing for Ways 
46. What Temptation Resisted? 
47. Who You Are in the Dark 
48. Recency 
49. The Best Meditation 
50. Our Access to Other Worlds 
51. Poems Fully Written 
52. The Toughest Problems 
53. What We Wish for Waking 
54. At Ease with Not Yet Knowing 
55. How Long Should It Take? 
56. Decision Is a Risk 
57. By Seeking and Blundering 
58. A Form of Not Being Sure 
59. From Problem to Question 
60. When the Answer Is Maturity 
61. Paralysis by Analysis 
62. The Song Won’t Let You 
63. Dare to Visualize 
64. To Understand the Immeasurable 
65. A Big Shadow 
66. On Napping 
67. A Mental Simmer 
68. On Not Waiting for the Right Mood 
69. On Not Waiting for the Muse 
70. You Will Never Live 
71. The Privilege of a Lifetime 
72. Having a Why 
73. A Hope That’s Waiting 
74. The Noon of Thought 
75. A New Way to Think 
Epilogue

About the author

Eric Maisel is an internationally-recognized diplomat coach, the author of 60+ books in the areas of coaching, creativity, life purpose, meaning, and mental health, and President of the International Association of Creative and Performing Artists.
A retired family therapist and active master coach residing in San Francisco, California, Dr. Maisel is the lead editor for the Ethics International Press Critical Psychology and Critical Psychiatry series, which takes a critical look at the current “mental disorder” paradigm and the influence of psychiatry on society’s institutions. 
His popular Psychology Today blog “Rethinking Mental Health” has more than 3.5 million views, and, in conjunction with Noble-Manhattan Coaching, he has developed three training programs, a Creativity Coach Certificate Program, an Existential Wellness Coach Certificate Program, and a Relationship Coach Certificate Program.
Among his 60+ titles are Brave New Mind (December, 2025), Choose Your Life Purposes, Parents Who Bully, Redesign Your Mind, Rethinking Depression, Coaching the Artist Within, Why Smart People Hurt, The Coach’s Way, Fearless Creating, The Future of Mental Health, The Power of Daily Practice and The Van Gogh Blues.  
Please visit Dr. Maisel at https://www.ericmaisel.com or contact him at [e-mail]

Product details

• Authors: Eric Maisel
• Publisher: Jim Dandy Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 01.02.2026
• EAN: 9781963667318
• ISBN: 978-1-963667-31-8
• No. of pages: 120
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Non-clinical medicine