You hike, you're literate, you're an atheist, you cook, you sew...

"La nuit porte conseil."
(The night brings advice) (French proverb)

I often do my best work when I am just woken up. Oddly, I also do very good work when I am beyond dead tired.

One of the best shooting bows I ever made was done in a frenzy through a sleepless night. I was dead tired, working in a darkened shop with just one single naked bulb above the work station, and my dog curled up in a pile of wood shavings looking at me with a worried eye. What normally takes me 20 hours over several days turned out shooting arrows in 6 hours.

Happy to hear of your breakthrough on the problem. It is always nice to add a trick to the bag for later use!

Nice jacket. I sewed for years. Made everything. I am very adept at stitches but my vision isn't as good as it once was.
What's fun is trying to teach a left handed gkid a simple straight stitch.

I often doze over a problem, then snap awake with an answer. It's one of my favourite ploys.

We need to start a group. I have a few projects on the go. Happy to share my bits of knowledge and learn from others.

same is true for studying. If you study and get a good nights sleep you recall more because the brain reviews the day when we sleep. This has happened often when I have difficult case at work.

When I have a serious problem, I take a break from it, for the night. The answer always comes to me in the middle of the night, I wake up and write it down.

Very nice