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We often say 'Sleep about it' to someone who has to make an important decision.
Sleepstorming', is brainstorming, but then in your sleep.
A well-known saying according to the meditation website Calm that actually works.

The principle is quite simple. Sleepstorming means training your brain to come up with new ideas while you sleep.
Before you go to sleep, you think of a problem that you would like to see resolved.
No major life questions such as 'do I want children or not?'
But'how do I ask a salary increase tomorrow?'. Close your eyes and think of a solution to the problem for a few minutes.
Then write down what you have come up with and focus on something completely different before you go to sleep.

The next morning you should wake up with a lot of new ideas, which you should also write down immediately before you forget them.
Even during the day you can come up with new brilliant ideas, so do not despair immediately
if you have not found a solution to your problem in the morning.

Does it really work?

In any case, it has not yet been scientifically proven that sleepstorming actually work.
A previous study by Harvard, Stanford and the University of Massachusetts has already shown that spending a night on sleeping,
making a decision more difficult. Half of the participants in that study compared four different laptopbags in the evening that they could buy the next day.
The other half had to make the choice on the day itself, so there was no night to think about it.
Those who were allowed to determine their choice after a night were found to have memorized much more positive
features of the bags, which made it harder for them to make a decision.

The Dutch Sleep and Memory Lab recently demonstrated in a study that sleeping people can learn at night.
Admittedly only a few words of Danish, but still worth trying sleepstorming!

At least you don't hurt anyone.