My best insights have often come early in the morning when I’ve still been shaking the sleep out of my head, in the free-association state that accompanies awakening. The cognitive superstructure that assembles and deploys cached thoughts, I find, takes somewhat longer to wake up than the rest of my brain, making for periods of enhanced spontaneous creativity. In this state I often feel strong impulses to create artistically as well.
If I could find some drug or meditation technique that could reliably induce this state, I believe I would be a happier and more productive man.
Moderate amounts of alcohol can reliably induce such a state in me. I’ve been writing down alcohol-induced ideas for a while now, and mine are uniformly pretty good when I examine them the next day.
My best insights have often come early in the morning when I’ve still been shaking the sleep out of my head, in the free-association state that accompanies awakening. The cognitive superstructure that assembles and deploys cached thoughts, I find, takes somewhat longer to wake up than the rest of my brain, making for periods of enhanced spontaneous creativity. In this state I often feel strong impulses to create artistically as well.
If I could find some drug or meditation technique that could reliably induce this state, I believe I would be a happier and more productive man.
Moderate amounts of alcohol can reliably induce such a state in me. I’ve been writing down alcohol-induced ideas for a while now, and mine are uniformly pretty good when I examine them the next day.