You may recall articles I've posted here about enhancing your ability to dream. Some experts believe a fantastically short dream -- one-second long to be exact -- can tap your brain's problem-solving powers.

Hard to blame you if you're skeptical, although two very intelligent men whose work in very different arenas had a huge impact on our lives -- Thomas Edison and Robert Louis Stevenson, the author of Treasure Island -- benefited greatly from one-second naps into the superconscious.

The trick about making one-second naps work: Being motivated to take action on what your superconscious tells you in those short dreams. These gifts of internal inspiration will come far less frequently if you squander them.