Sometimes, when I first wake up from a nap, or in the morning...

[CaliforniaPeggy]

I find that those can be my most creative times...

Fragments of poems or prose just leap into my mind!

I have to hurry up and find something to write on so I don't lose the thought...

I've had some of my best writing emerge from those times...

Has it happened to you? Tell me!

:hug:

[Whoa_Nelly]

1. I have the most intense dreams right before waking

Dreamed the other morning that the Frong King was sitting on a line of grass (like in a video game)

and he layed 6 eggs one at a time, each lining up under the line of grass, and each with a Lotto number on it.

(Yeah..I know....Frog Kings aren't the egg-layers...:eyes: )


...as for most energy/creativity upon waking....?

Nope....have to get up at least an hour before I KNOW I have to really get moving just to have coffee and come back tot he real world.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. My dear Whoa_Nelly!

I've had those intense dreams right before waking too....

And they can be truly weird!

I guess creativity manifests itself differently for different folks!

:hi:

[tigereye]

3. i have written song lyrics and poems based on that inbetween

and open creative state...

I think it's very cool.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

4. My dear tigereye!

It is very cool indeed!

I wonder what causes it?

Perhaps it's because we're sleepy and open to new thoughts?


:hi:

[tigereye]

25. I'm betting there is some neurological reason

due to what happens to our brains during sleep, but that would spoil the mystery to some extent, eh? ;)

[SPKrazy]

5. i think it is before the critical thinker has a chance to wake up

it's sort of like hypnosis, the turning off of the critical or analytical part of the brain or distraction of it so that the dreamy, creative part is operating without that regulator going.

it happens to everyone

the discoverer of the benzene molecule


can't remember his name, but he was smoking opium and had a dream about a snake chasing his tail and was able to figure out how benzene molecules were structured.

i think it is the creative/spiritual part of the brain that is allowed to be used without that critical judging part taking it's toll on the creativity.

:hug:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

6. My dear Southpawkicker!

YES!

You have stated it perfectly, IMHO!

The critical part of the brain is asleep....so the creative part can come out to play...

And play it does...if we let it!

Thank you for your insight, sweetie...:hug:

[SPKrazy]

7. that's me

the insightful one

sometimes it is a curse

insight that is

:shrug:

:hug:

[zingaro]

18. Kekulé

Friedrich Kekulé.

:D

and look! 500 posts!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

20. Congrats on your achievement!

:hug:

[SPKrazy]

33. Oh double woo hoo!

Kekulé and the 500 posts!

:woohoo: :woohoo:


so smart!

:hug:

[Haole Girl]

8. I like to write late at night...

...when the world is quiet (and my husband has turned off the TV ;-)).

:hug:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

9. My dear KC2...

Yes, that is an optimal time for many writers......

I find that the right sort of music can inspire me greatly....

Or sometimes just driving down the street, looking at the trees and sun...

I never know.......

So I have taken to keeping pen and paper close all the time!

:hug:

[Lautremont]

10. This in-between state is indeed very creative. Your brain is in a theta state.

This refers to the sort of brain waves that are being produced. It's great! Very fertile, and, as a writer, I find it pays great dividends to encourage this state. To that end, I'm aiming to build a sensory deprivation tank in my basement. This sounds like a joke (it does to my wife, anyway!), but I'm serious.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

11. My dear Lautremont...

It is very creative indeed!

And I think that with practice, you can encourage it to be even more so...

I really find that music, especially classical music, inspires me to feel things more deeply...

And then the words just pour out...

It's like opening a door for me!

I've heard that folks hallucinate in those sensory deprivation tanks...

:hi:

[Richard Steele]

12. Dali used to do that deliberately.

And yes, it happens to me as well.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

14. My dear dicksteele...

How did he accomplish this?

He must have had some mental control to generate those brainwaves...

Glad you have it happening as well!

:hi:

[Richard Steele]

22. He was a clever fellow, that Dali....

When sleepy, he'd sit in a comfy chair with canvas or
sketch pad at the ready....

He'd put a metal serving-tray on the floor, and extend his arm
over the arm of the chair, holding a spoon in his hand.

When he nodded off, he'd drop the spoon. It would hit the tray,
the sound would wake him, and he'd paint or sketch for a while
before repeating the process... again and again.

I've wondered if training himself for years in that fashion
ever created a Pavlovian effect in him; if someone could have
given him an "inspiration" by sneaking up behind him and
tapping a tray with a spoon.

[Chan790]

13. No...I do my best creating in the midnight-times...

when even angels hide from the shadows.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

15. My dear Chan790....

Like right now, huh?

That sentence of yours is the perfect example, IMHO....

Beautifully written, methinks....

Thank you for it...:hi:

[Chan790]

17. Exactly like right now.

Unfortunately, there are other things I should be doing instead of DUing.

[zingaro]

21. Ah, but, Your Honor...

Not all angels hide from the shadows. Some exist happily in the fragile edge of the event horizon, comfortable in the certainly that without one, there is not the other.

They fly true trusting that their wings cast shadows from both sides, as their ethereal nature lights from within that which is also reflected from without.

Humbly, I ask you to reconsider this plea from a mere 12%er.

:D

[Chan790]

23. Considered.

Has merit. I even like it (as a philosophical construct). It lacks the same poeticism though.

[zingaro]

16. Oh CPeggy! Yes!

I wake up with the same things in my head. I try to get them down but too often I leave myself with too little time.

But yes, I know exactly what you mean. Dreams are full of great fodder.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

19. My dear Zingaro....

I hear that!

I try to have pencil/paper nearby so I can quickly scribble...

But I have found that my dreams don't do it for me...

I just have random thoughts that show up when I first wake up...

Go figure, huh?

:hug:

[Road Scholar]

24. The guard to your subconsious mind is a little groggy when

you first wake up and lets you get connected with your creative (subconsious) mind. Learn about that and how to use it and you'll unlock a whole part about yourself that I bet you didn't know. You wont be disapointed.:toast:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

27. My dear In_Transit!

Ah, indeed!

I have already found this to be the case, and I am soooo happy I did!

As to learning about it, and how to use it...I still have lots to learn there...

But I can tell you this: What I've seen so far is astonishing!

Thank you...:hug:

[av8rdave]

26. Not to me, unfortunately...I'm not the world's most creative person

I am, however, content to enjoy and appreciate the works of those who are!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

28. My dear av8rdave!

We all are creative, but not in the same ways...

It takes creativity to appreciate the works done by others, you know...

:hug:

[texas1928]

29. Well if someone wants to read.

UUUUhhhhh MMMMM GRRGRRR UNGH... YAWN... BLAH... FFRRRRTTTT...


I don't think I can make any money.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

30. My dear tex!

Yeah, you do need to be able to read it!

Nice to see you today.......

:hi:

[skygazer]

31. For me, it's when I'm walking or driving

Or sometimes in the shower or washing dishes. Those solitary times when my mind wanders around and things sort of coalesce.

When I moved to California, I came alone in a VW with a lousy cassette deck and one cassette. So I spent a lot of time driving in silence which was nice. Along one stretch of road, the fragment of an idea came into my head and over the next couple of hundred miles, it sort of grew until I had whole chunks of dialogue and description rolling around in my brain.

It got so intense after about 2 hours that I finally shot off the highway, into the nearest parking lot, pulled out a pad and pen and scribbled it all down - about a page and a half typewritten, just a single event in what was obviously a bigger story.

It's actually one of the best things I've ever written in that it needed hardly any rewrites or corrections to polish it. It's extremely vivid and intense - I finally used it a couple of years later in a short story but it stands alone as a pretty cool vignette.

That's often how it happens with me. :hi:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

32. My dear skygazer!

Wow, what a great story!

I'm so pleased that you did pull off and take the time to write it down...

I've read about other writers who thought they could remember their stories...

And then they lost them...:cry:

I have found too that when I'm in the grip of intense emotions, the words just pour out, and I hardly need to do any editing!

Isn't the human mind amazing?

:bounce: :bounce: