CREATIVE CONNECTIONS

TEAMMINDMAP FOR GENERATING SLEEP

DISORDER SOLUTIONS – CREATIVITY CRASH COURSE

PRELIMINARY

THE PRESENTION COMBINES THE ORIGINAL MINDMAPPING AND THE OUTLINE DERIVED FROM THE MAPPING EXERCISE. THE IDEAS WERE ORGANIZED INTO EIGHT CATEGORIES.

THE MINDMAP SLIDES ARE SCREENSHOTS OF THE ORIGINAL MINDMAPPING, AND MAY NOT BE READABLE DUE TO PRINT SIZE. THE OUTLINE PROVIDES THE SUPPORTING INFORMATION.

SLEEP PROBLEM AND AREAS OF

SOLUTION

OVERVIEW

SLEEP AS FUNMAKE SLEEP A FORM OF ENTERTAINMENT 

Create sleep inducing environments

encourage exercise a few hours before bedtime.

Provide a sleep world where sleep entertainment rides and charcters are the theme of the park

Develop a playlist of sleep inducing music

Create a visual montage of sleep inducing images

CONTESTS AND PRIZES

Create a system for people to induce types of dreaming, and to better remember and record their dreaming.

Allow drug companies to produce OTC hallucinagins that trigger vivid and wild dreaming during sleep.

 

SOCIAL SNOOZING

SOCIAL INCENTIVESPublically humiliate people who don't sleep enough

Create local and regional sleeping contests for best sleep shown on brain wave monitors.

Make sleep a national contest, with publicity for competititve sleeping, and tracking depth of sleep

Publicly ridicule and humiliate people who don't get enough sleep--similar to the the anti-smoking campaign.

Make sleep retreats popular where people practice different ways of relaxing and drifting off to sleep

put people together for public sleeping to encourage herd behavior

reward people with public praise for sleep improvement

Give people long lazy baloon rides to slow down the pace of life and provide perspective

create insomiacs anyonymous to help non-sleepers work through their issues.

Create sleep suggestive art and images that glorify and value sleep. Place these in homes and workplaces.

Hold contests for the most imaginative dreams

Help people focus on their passions and personal interests to take the edge off the mundane and pressing work day.

Create a theology and Church of Sleep, where spiritual progress is tied to faith in the value and quality of sleep.

Help people develop clear consciences by instiuting public "confessionals" and "exonerations" from failures and failings. 

MEDICAL - PSYCHOLOGICAL

MEDICAL SOLUTIONSCREATE BIOFEEDBACK SLEEP CENTERS WHERE PEOPLE DESIGN THEIR OWN SLEEP PROGRAMS.

invest in anti-anxiety research

Implant electrodes to deliver sleep inducing currents to the brain

Create a brain wave monitor connected to an auto-injection unit that immediately injects a fast acting sedative and barbituate into the bloodstream before someone awakens.

Force people to stay awake for long periods.

Excercise people to the point of exhaustion

Attach sleep meters and punish or reward people who meet sleep quotas

Reward MDs who prescrible rational cognitive therapy and exercise instead of Xanex.

create a personalized sleep inducing routine for each patient/client

Address people's fears, and help them to feel completely safe about sleeping.

Develop foods selections and dietary pratices that promote sleep

Gather a team of psychologists and storytellers to develop a menu of bedtime stories that operate to detach people from the harsh realities of their day.

Pay insurance or medicare incentive pay to M.D.s and Sleep Centers that document improved sleep hours by patients.

Make Sleep a Medical Specialty in Medical schools, and attract MDs to the practice with laws for insurance coverage and liberal medicare/obamacare payouts.

Make Sleep a medical preventitive care priority under ObamaCare, and authorize payments to companies that design and install home sleep "systems" that combine drugs, environment, education, design, and products.

EMPLOYER INCENTIVES

EMPLOYER BASED INCENTIVES 

ENACT LAWS THAT ALLOW EMPLOYEES A ONE HOUR SLEEP BREAK AND A PRIVATE, COMFORTABLE AND QUIET PLACE TO SLEEP.

PROVIDE EMPLOYER INCENTIVES BY TAX CREDITS TO BUILD SLEEP ROOMS INTO THEIR OFFICE SPACE

USE SUBLIMINAL MESSAGES ON WORK COMPUTERS.

Provide employees with sound systems that allow them to hear relaxing music during the work day. 

Identify people with sleep disorders, and disqualify them from certain kinds of work.

Design breaks to coincide with individual workers circadian systems, and if possible, allow a siesta time for a whole work group at their common "low point" of the day. 

Shift to 10 hour work days, 4 days a week to create 3 day weekends.

 

Addressing Core Causes 

Snoring

Mandate Operations for the "snore flap"

Dispense free c-Pap machines

Require snorers to have disclose snoring issues before marriage certificate will be issued.

Stress

Use Stress identifiers on a "Stress Scale" and require time-off before critical levels are reached.

Create a new medical specialty of "stress doctor" and have the AMA define excess stress as a "disease."

Develop a skin coloration chemical that is ingested and that reacts to stress harmones. A persons skin color will change at certain levels of stress. Develop a new social bias called "Stressism”

Neuroticism

Help neurotices to find creative alternatives to late night worry. Associate worry with daylight, and exhaustion with night.

Do psychological testing, and align people with work and play activities that give their neurotic styles free expression.

Stop defining lack of sleep as a problem. Declare people who have serious sleep issues as disabled, and put them on social security. 

Biology

Let people work shifts that coincide with their most creative and energized periods.

Align occupations with body types and sleep tendencies. Based on scale results after brain scans, some people are not allowed to work in certain occupations.

Focus research money on genetic testing for sleep disorders, and stress tolerance. Breed people who sleep well, and euthanize or sterilize those who don't. 

Overwork

Require people to obtain government approval of their work and recreation schedules.

Set maximum working hours on certain occupations

Set up an "employment relations" agency in each state with arbitrators that process employee complaints of "overwork" and have the authority to require employers to realign work responsibilities.

Make balance and time allocation a workplace priority by emphasizing to employers and employees why more gets done by reducing the number of tasks and the hours worked per persons. 

Poor Time Management

Glorify and Highlight Examples of People Who know how to say "yes" and "no" to work and social expectations.

Create employer-employee communication systems that help managers assess how much work they are putting on people, and the true time required to accomplish tasks.

Help people focus on preparing for sleep by progressively reducing the intensity and types of activities as sleep time approaches. 

ADDRESSING CORE CAUSES

Public EducationCONDUCT PUBLIC EDUCATION ON HOW TO TO IMPROVE QUALITY OF SLEEP 

Make a Pantheon of Great Sleepers, and make sleeping a matter of natinal pride.

show people how productivity increases with R&R

organize national sleep ins.

REWARD PEOPLE WHO PRODUCE THE BEST DREAMS.

TEACH PEOPLE HOW TO CATNAP, ALLOW EMPLOYEES TO TAKE CATNAPS

EDUCATION BASED SOLUTIONS

Develop a sleep nutrition discipline

FREE MARKET SNOOZING

COMMERCIAL SOLUTIONS 

design and sell new sleep inducing beds that rely on all five sense to induce and maintain sleep

Establish sleep retainer centers for long term care

Use hypnotists

provide hypnotic music

pay experts to design and install sleep perfect environments

Provide home care services for persons to assist family members who need care through the night so other family members can sleep.

Develop sleep coaches who ingrain habits and sleep "triggers" over a period of 6 weeks repetition with clients.

encourage the use of sleep partners

Seal off all light from the bedroom, and soundproof all bedrooms.

DEVELOP LARGE STUFFED SOFT BODY LENGTH FIGURES THAT PLAY SOOTHFUL NATURE SOUNDS WHEN SQUEEZED FOR BED.

Use massage therapists for home visits at bedtime.

Create "surround sound" and customized "get away" bedrooms that recreate a fantasy sleep space for the individual.

Create electronic free spaces in homes where all lighting is natural or at best candle based. No mobile phones, computers or TVs.

Create an architectual trend with a core purpose of inducing rest and sleep

Develop "Emergency Sleep Rooms" where people can have sleep induced for up to 72 hours in a mild comatose state.

Develop virtual "Sleep Fantasy Centers" where environments and people interact to produce your perfect "virtual" sleep world.

THE FUHRER SPEAKS

GOVERNMENT COERCION AND INCENTIVESDeclare it a crime to sleep less than 6.5 hours, and imprison violators in sleep centers until rehabilitated.

CONDUCT A PUBLIC HEALTH EDUCATION PROGRAM ON THE DANGERS OF EXCESSIVE CAFFEINE.

Pay people to sleep

Pay to have people include jacuzzi's in their home

DEVELOP A NATIONAL STIMULATION INDEX AND DEVELOP GUIDELINES FOR OVERSTIMULATION FROM ELECTRONIC DEVICES, INCLUDING EMAIL, TEXTS, MOVIES, AND GAMES.

Outlaw all electronic access after 9:00 p.m.

Find the most boring subjects in the world, and require online courses between 4:00 p.m. and 12:00 a.m.

Place people who can't sleep on part time work and supplemental disability benefits.

Move people who can't sleep to the country, and train them for jobs in low stress environments.

provide people with paid sleep partners who induce sleep

Give people free sleep drugs

impose an activity curfew.

ENACT LAWS THAT ALLOW LONGER SLEEP BREAKS.

Outlaw all meetings, education or business before 10:00 and after 4:00

Ban Caffeine

Require warnings of health risks on products that contain high levels of caffeine.

Extend Medical Leave Protections to BOTH Parents when MD certifies child is keeping parents awake at night.

Deny drivers licenses to persons who demonstrate sleep disorders.

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MAY YOU HAVE MANY HOURS OF HAPPY SLEEPING AND WONDERFULLY CREATIVE DREAMS, BOTH DAY AND NIGHT!