he would take a pair of Steel bull bearings in his right hand he would sit in his office on a reclining chair with a rest for his arm and then he would put a pad of paper and a pen next to him and then he would gradually start to relax off but what he'd done was he' used a metal sauce Spin and turned it upside down and placed it underneath the armrest and as he was drifting off into that state into that sort of lional state so he didn't go too far into sleep what would happen is that his muscle tone would gradually relax he would release the steel ball bearings they would crash on the saucepan wake him up and then he would start to write down all of the ideas that he was having from that linal state