Recipe 1 for Doodle-Noodle Soup:

       1.  Before you go to bed, doodle while your mind is sorta loose and sloppy.  Leave it to cool over night, and wait to read until the next morning.  Most times you won't remember what in the hell you were thinking about, or how you connected the dots.  The results are bound to be cathartic on some level - but similar blowing your nose, you don't need to study a used tissue too hard to know you had a good sneeze!