General Question

Baloo72's avatar

What have you accomplished in a state of hyper-creativity?

Asked by Baloo72 (702points) February 16th, 2009

This hyper-creative state typically happens for me when I should be asleep, but instead I am awake and working on something. My best computer programs seem to come out of those times. What have my fellow jellyfish done in this state?

Observing members: 0 Composing members: 0

15 Answers

steelmarket's avatar

That is The Zone, @Baloo72 ! Amazing things can happen when you are in The Zone.
I have had designs fly off my pencil while in The Zone. I have solved quadratic equations while in The Zone. I have charmed ladies while in The Zone. The Zone frequently happens at night. That is one reason some professions drink so much coffee.

I understood Alan Guth’s book when I was in The Zone. Then I dropped out and no longer understood it.

TheDeadWake's avatar

Large or many paintings. It’s amazing while in this zone. Time goes by so quickly and your body seems not to notice how tired it should be.

Sakata's avatar

Over the years I’ve probably written 25 books while in “The Zone.” Unfortunately none of them have ever been any longer than the Preface/1st chapter.

mrswho's avatar

That happens to me while I procrastinate/am depressed and I accomplish things to keep from doing what I ought to be doing. I don’t really want to do those things but I have to to find peace. That’s how such great gems as my “snow detector” and the first few lines of dozens of short stories came about. Some times the zone cleans my room for me or decides that I need to learn some martial arts. Sometimes it writes ten page papers over a one page topic and that irritates me, but I have no say in the matter. Today it decided to bother me about special relativity and last night it bugged me about federal bailouts.

Kiev749's avatar

stocked an entire section of the warehouse in which i work. (12 isles.)

Baloo72's avatar

@mrswho I thought I was bugging you about special relativity. . .

Mtl_zack's avatar

I have completely cleaned and reorganized my room while in the Zone. I’ve also written phenomenal papers for school, that are 4 pages too long, but the teacher is impressed, so he gives me bonus marks to make up for the marks lost for going outside of the guidelines.

Johnny_Rambo's avatar

I’d like to say that I invented White Out or Stick’ems , but that would be a lie.

evelyns_pet_zebra's avatar

I have written several incredible short stories in that hyper creativity zone. Unfortunately, my muse brings the Zone on usually during the middle of the night, which leaves me still pounding away at the keyboard when the sun comes up the next day. I’ve been known to write for 12, 16, even 20 hours straight. Then I sleep for two days.

I finished Death of a Heathen (long short story of an atheist who accidently ends up in Heaven) and Tangor Bringerbinder (longer story of a guy with hypertrichosis who rediscovers his father’s time machine) during late night periods of hyper-creativity. The words just flowed out of my fingers like magic.

madcapper's avatar

I think of awesome artwork when in the said “zone”. unfortunately I never create what I think of…

antimatter's avatar

Thinking of ways to make money so that I don’t have to work for these @%#%^#$ people.
Thinking up creative ways to rob banks and atm’s and write stories about it.

mcbealer's avatar

Some of my best writing.

derekpaperscissors's avatar

Creating random art from what I find nearby, not because it’s required.
Paper roses from tissue napkins, ballerina under the stars from some chalk and the back of a poster, ambigrams drawn in post-it notes during history class, free styling under the influence or when I hear a tune/beat, tearing up aluminum soda cans to make mini-cans/ashtrays, drawing sharpie on my arms for a creative picture, random scribbling then turning it into something recognizable, etc.
Too bad I have a hard time focusing on one thing so I can’t really make use of these creative bursts.

derekpaperscissors's avatar

@evelyns_pet_zebra Did you write those stories? Sounds interesting, would be nice to read them sometime.

evelyns_pet_zebra's avatar

@derekpaperscissors yeah, I did. And a dozen more besides, including the ongoing novel of Evelyn, the 300 foot goddess I created to keep JWs off my doorstep. I posted the Atheist story on my xanga site a couple of years ago, but I really should try and get the darn thing published.

Answer this question

Login

or

Join

to answer.

This question is in the General Section. Responses must be helpful and on-topic.

Your answer will be saved while you login or join.

Have a question? Ask Fluther!

What do you know more about?
or
Knowledge Networking @ Fluther