As the the title implies, this book contains a lot of pointers and techniques for solving all kinds of problems (and therefore reducing stress), change personality traits and awaken your creativity. How? by guiding, training or simply letting your brain do what it naturally does best: problem-solving. Even if this book might seem to be focused on thinking while sleeping, it also gives tips and exercises for solving problems while you are awake. If you have read about NLP, reframing, lucid dreaming or cognitive psychology (to name a few) then the contents of this book might feel familiar to you at one point or another.

This book consists mostly of case examples of people using sleep thinking to solve an issue. Eric Maisel presents a 18 steps program to facilitate the natural sleep thinking process of the brain. There are so many examples, that I would expect that you can identify with at least one of them or with their problem (problems about roomates, changing jobs, socializing, teenager doing drugs, dealing with step-kids, artists, writers, etc). In my case, I was a bit disappointed as I was expecting a more factual approach focusing on the method, background and troubleshooting without using so many case examples that, at some point, started feeling more like positive testimonials or as a way to convince that sleep thinking works (which I know it does, because I have intuitively done it, and therefore got bored at most of the story parts, which were a lot). However, I did find the method and tips given of great help in general, specially the six anxiety-management strategies, think in 20s exercise and 12 tips for upgrading your personality. As you can see, it gives advice for happiness and well-being in general, not just sleep thinking, so it suits best those who want an easy to understand self-help book, specially if you are new to this subject. However, If you are looking for a scholarly/ scientific approach, I wouldn't recommend this one, this is more a hands-on practical book. So, if the latter is what you are looking for, by all means read it. I got my eArc from NetGalley ( )