I’ll start. When stone sober I follow common comfortable lines of thought. And some not so comfortable in this state it takes more energy following the uncomfortable lines so yeah kinda a conundrum.
Anyway under certain influence the motor in my brain goes and idea after idea pops in. I am on my phone mid group conversation as to not burden my friends.
Not necessarily good ideas but it doesn’t matter much for my point. Creativity in some sense is chemical flow/quantity right?
I typed and never submitted like 4-5 threads before this by the way. I should discard this one as well but it’s pretty honest and doesn’t reek of facepalm yet...
That's about right, although i'd call it novel associations between different ideas. But when you think up 37 different ways to hold a cheese grater to try to whack yourself off, you also realize that creativity alone isn't a good thing.
Novel associations between ideas can in themselves be new ideas.
What are new ideas but recombinations and reassociations of existing ones?
Drunk or high I get a lot more ideas overall. Unless I've been drinking or drugging for consecutive days, where the brain tires and I get nothing. Most are terrible ideas but more ideas regardless; very few have been life-changing.
