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Sleepiness and Booze Boost Creativity Up to a certain point. New studies highlight unexpected benefits of not being able to focus thanks to alcohol and grogginess, namely, the improved ability to solve creative insight puzzles, in which the answer arrives suddenly and seemingly out of nowhere. Sometimes it helps to allow our imaginations to consider irrelevant information, to eavesdrop on all the stray associations unfolding in the far reaches of the brain. We are more likely to find the answer because we have less control over where we look...

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