@Milk-Destroyer said in Is it possible to force a creative state?:
How many 'creative types' are here on the forum? Do many of you create what you'd call art or stuff that pleases you in a similar way?
Creativity is a right brain thing.
In the enclosed world I live in, it seems that creative efforts are hard to come by. I often have flutters of creative ideas come into my head sometimes but I am never able to put anything I briefly think of into a sort of realistic adaptation.
Flutters of creative ideas are pretty much a left brain thing. The right side becomes engaged in the doing.
I was hoping to hear anecdotal reports from the people here of experiences they've had with being able to slip themselves into that creative but also productive mindset. For you creative types, what do you typically do to get yourself into the mood of creating?
Dragging myself away from this stupid computer is #1.
My brain was damaged in 1993 via organophosphate insecticide poisoning. I was able to recover (rewired my brain) via spending 2 years teaching myself to hand marble fabric. I got good at it too. My husband would venture into the studio, stare aghast at the multicolored spatters of paint that had gotten inadvertently slung on the walls, on top of his new paint job, and I would exclaim, "Out! OUT!! You are disturbing my muse!!" My brain recovered, my marriage survived, but I had to hang up my marbling combs because my arches fell because my cartilage had turned to mush due to hypothyroidism. It was the most fun ever! (the marbling, not the hypothyroidism).
Lookit!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2EUK78XVQk