When is your creative time?

[Mamba]

You know what I mean... when is the time when you get your creative head on, think up awesome lyrics or music, perhaps part of a story, or simply get a great idea?

I am blessed with my creative time when I am lying in bed barely minutes before I go to sleep. I think this is because my mind is not focused on a particular action (apart from going to sleep - but I don't necessarily think about sleeping, I just close my eyes and drift away) and so is able to roam freely without urgency in the realm of imagination just before entering into dreamstate. I get so many ideas running through my head at this point.

Sounds great, but it is a pain in the ass. It's really hard to remember things that come to me just as my eyelids are crashing shut. Usually, I am too tired to do something about it and I just hope that I do remember - but more often that not - between dreaming and awaking I will forget.

I often think I would benefit from keeping a pad of paper beside my bed and write down my ideas, but I think that would annoy my boyfriend no end as I would have to turn the light on suddenly and write when he is trying to sleep.

Of the ideas that I do remember, I find that the next morning some of them are not viable or simply ridiculous, but a couple of them are usually good.


When is your creative time?

[Sideshow]

I approach my creative pursuits (magazine articles/short fiction etc) as a both a business and a hobby so I don't wait for inspriation to strike. For me there is no time for writers block, I generally allocate a certain amount of time every day (sometimes even on the train on the way to work) to writing and I write through to the last minute.

So any time is creative time really.

I used to do the before/during sleep thing too, but all the ideas i got were lame :)

[CrAnIuM]

I'm an ambidextrous thinker, therefore I am equally creative at all hours.

[Negativecool]

All my creativity is born out of stress; stress is my inspiration. If there is no imperative need for creativity, I am not capable, simply because I do not care to be.
I am a master's level procrastinator. So I am equally creative and not creative at all times of the day.

[Josie]

Late late night after everyone else has gone to bed. I may have been tired throughout the day, but as soon as I have the house to myself, I snap into either creativity or cleaning mode.

The next day is usually coffee-filled hehe

[KommieKat]

I am lying in bed barely minutes before I go to sleep.

I read that Thomas Edison used to sit in a chair with some marbles in his hands. The moment he drifted off to sleep, his hand would open, releasing the marbles and wake him back to that state you're referring to.

Maybe give that a try?

[Violet]

Sounds great, but it is a pain in the ass. It's really hard to remember things that come to me just as my eyelids are crashing shut. Usually, I am too tired to do something about it and I just hope that I do remember - but more often that not - between dreaming and awaking I will forget.

Ugh. I have the same dilemma. It's either that, or when I'm at work perched in front of a microscope with no way to jot it down.

In any sense, my best ideas are probably lost.


Occasionally, I get ideas in the shower. Sometimes I get to keep those.

I agree, though, that it must have something to do with the fact that my mind isn't being forced to focus on anything in particular.

[Amythist]

I would have to say that I do not have a particular time. Things just pop in and outta my head all day. I will be in deep thought about something and poof there is an idea or words for my poems outta no where. Yup..mmm hmmm

[Sucker]

I am a genius at all fucking times of the day.

[Gravy]

On the can. For real.