The going to sleep/waking up ritual of infusing a brain with goals and ideas and having greater clarity and creativity around those upon waking is so true…so valuable. A meditation practice in the morning helps amplify the awareness as well I think. I’ve never liked the characterization of ‘thought dump’…it sounds heavy and disorganized to me…but I get that the idea is to capture everything that comes in those early moments of being awake before anything distracting takes some of it away. The ‘dump’ doesn’t work for me though. I have to organize the thoughts in my morning journal writing along the way or they remain disorganized and not as usable.