Crash Course in Creativity Assignment - Challenge Assumptions 2: How Can You Help Snorer with Light Sleeping Partner Sleep Well? List of 100 Brainstormed ideas (some better than others) for helping a couple with one snorer and another light sleeper both sleep well through the night.

1. Snoring Partner, Light Sleeper
Quiet/stop snoring
- Surgery
- Breathe Right Nasal Strips
- Sleep on side (not back)
- Get enough sleep
- Keep a regular sleep schedule
- Use humidifier
- Use anti-snoring mouth guard
- Elevate upper body with pillows to release pressure on airway
- Raise top half of bed to elevate upper body to release pressure on airway
- Eat honey before bedtime
- Keep mouth taped shut (breathe through nose only)
- Wake snorer when snoring
- Apparatus that “hears” snoring and pokes/wakes up snorer briefly to stop snoring
- Alarm that senses snoring and wakes snorer
- Use anti-snoring pillow
- Pillow over face
- Snorer loses weight
- Avoid alcohol
- Avoid sleeping pills
- Avoid dairy foods – milk, yogurt, etc. – before bed
- Quit smoking
- Get allergies treated
- Saline spray before bed
- Palate strips inside mouth
- Anti-snoring mouthpiece
- Antihistamine before bed
- Soundproof “bulb” over snorer’s head with oxygen source
- Cocoon-type full-body “bubble” to fully encapsulate snorer
- Astronaut suit with full head “fishbowl” (for snorer)
- Snorer never sleeps
- Suffocation
- Hire mediator to wake snorer when snoring
- Hypnosis
Keep light sleeper from hearing snoring
- Earplugs

2. - Noise cancelling headphones
- Run a fan in the room
- Astronaut suit with full head “fishbowl” (for light sleeper)
- Sound machine – white noise
- TV on static for white noise
- TV on regular channel all night
- Radio on static for white noise
- Sleep with window open (if in loud area) to drown out snoring
- Music on headphones for light sleeper
- Surround sound music for light sleeper
- Move to oceanfront property; sleep with windows open
- Padded walls (reduce echo)
- Special material in bed to “absorb” sound
- Waterbed – sounds louder than snoring
- Hypnosis
- Invent device that makes sounds that “cancel out” snoring sound waves
- Whistle in snorer’s mouth to make whistle sound to overwhelm snoring sound.
Separate snorer and light sleeper
- Snorer sleeps with head under covers; other outside of covers
- Sleep head-to-toe
- Build retractable wall between them for sleeping
- Build permanent wall between them for sleeping
- Bunk beds, snorer on top
- Separate beds on different sides of same room
- Separate rooms
- Separate houses
- Separate sleep schedules (night vs. day)
- Separate sleep schedules (hour on, hour off)
- Snorer goes to sleep after other is already asleep (less likely to hear snoring)
- Trade child for partner for sleeping
- Divorce
- Murder
Get light sleeper used to snoring/minimize effect
- Record snoring; play back louder than actual snoring during night
- Record snoring; play throughout the day to help light sleeper become accustomed to it
- Practice getting back to sleep easily when woken up by snoring

3. Help light sleeper sleep through sound, disruptions
- Sleeping pills
- Alcohol
- Exhaustion
Help light sleeper sleep more soundly and/or get back to sleep if woken up
- Avoid alcohol at night
- Avoid caffeine at night
- Avoid nicotine and other stimulants at night
- Don’t use bedroom for work, eating, etc.
- Remove TV from bedroom
- Avoid computer use before bed
- Meditation before sleeping – forget stressors
- Keep pen and paper nearby – write down things you are worried about forgetting so you can
relax
- Try hot bath before bed to relax
- Herbal tea before bed to relax (unless it makes you have to get up to go the bathroom at night)
- Avoid napping during the day
- Avoid liquids before bed (if it forces you to go to bathroom during the night)
- Exercise during the day
- Read just before bed
- Crosswords or other mind exercises before bed
- Keep room very dark during sleep
- Keep room comfortable temperature
- New bed that won’t squeak with movement
- New bed that won’t shake other person with movement
- Keep glass of water near bed so you don’t have to get up if thirsty during the night
- Try magnesium and calcium together for better sleeping
- Try aromatherapy before bed to relax
- Try melatonin before bed for better sleeping
- Yoga before bed
- Meditation before bed
- Eat a banana before bed
Take Advantage of Snoring
- Device that takes snoring and turns it into soothing sounds – ocean waves, etc.

4. - Gamify it – light sleeper scores points for sleeping through snoring; snorer scores points for
minimizing snoring
- Record awful snoring; video goes viral; earn money to pay for any remedy
- Create reality show about couple dealing with snoring; become next Kardashians