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Inducing creativity and insight
| quote: | We may recognize it as the "Ah ha!" moment—the point at which everything rapidly, and often suddenly, comes together to form a whole, complete idea, sometimes out of nowhere. This is also known as the moment of insight—the pinnacle of the creative process.
Anyone who's experienced this moment knows how addictive that feeling can be. For me, it's like being high on ideas—scrambling to dictate, transcribe, and extract as much information as you can from this mental epiphany before it escapes into the haze of unrealized theories. When it hits you—and you are in that moment—it's heaven. |
It really is heaven, and highly addictive. A group of scientists is trying to induce it by inhibiting the left hemisphere of the brain in order to temporarily restrict our tendency to filter our perceptions into our pre-existing mental templates. Pretty interesting concept, but one has to wonder about their conclusions.
I am by no means knowledgeable on this subject, but having felt the overwhelming impact of the feeling, and wishing I could have it again, I found this article very interesting.
http://www.science20.com/rogue_neur...idiculous-76404
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