Salvador Dalí’s Sleep with a Spoon Trick
Surrealist artist Salvador Dalí had a peculiar method to summon creativity: he’d sit in a chair with a spoon in hand and a metal plate beneath. As he nodded off, the spoon would drop and clang, waking him just in time to capture the wild images from his “micro-nap” dreams.
Dalí believed this fleeting moment between sleep and wakefulness held the key to his most surreal ideas. Neuroscience later confirmed this phase—called the hypnagogic state—is a fertile ground for creativity. Leave it to Dalí to turn a spoon into a gateway to genius.
Advertisements
Advertisements
Advertisements