Dim Lighting Sparks Creativity

[the_disconekt]

http://www.psmag.com/blogs/news-blog/di ... ity-60437/

New German research finds a darkened room encourages freedom of thought and inspires innovation.

There are certain times when you want the lights turned way down low. One such time, according to recent research, is when you need to think creatively.

“Darkness increases freedom from constraints, which in turn promotes creativity,” report Anna Steidle of the University of Stuttgard and Lioba Werth of the University of Hohenheim. A dimly lit environment, they explain in the Journal of Environmental Psychology, “elicits a feeling of freedom, self-determination, and reduced inhibition,” all of which encourage innovative thinking.

Kinda validates the fact that all my best musical ideas come late at night.

[hugh]

I thought people already knew that sensory deprivation causes other neurons in the brain to over-fire and thus stimulate creativity? Or did I just make that up?

[parson]

my best ideas come from walking. usually during the day.

[alphacat]

my best ideas come from walking. usually during the day.

Walking... in Austin? That's insane. Some hot sheeeeit right there. My pasty ass would melt, quick.

[wolf89]

I can right music best at 2am onwards for some reason.

I also get the weird urge to turn the lights off if I'm sat down listening to something particularly sonically pleasing on headphones. Sometimes wonder if that's to do with distractions from the sound by other senses or the fact I have a kind of synaesthesia.

[AxeD]

I'd like dim lighted life, but wearing sunglasses everywhere makes you a doejsbeck.

[DiegoSapiens]

my best ideas come from wanking. usually during the day.

[parson]

obv i have less ideas during the summer

[parson]

also:
"Never trust a thought that didn't come by walking."
Nietzche

[Pedro Sánchez]

my best ideas come from walking. usually during the day.

Oh you said 'walking' for a minute there I...

[Genevieve]

I get most of my creativity before I fall asleep or just some days in a row where I'm practically HAUNTED by songs in my head. Will have 30 second tune ideas on loop for an hour or two. Get that during sleepless nights as well. Tend to move around and jitter like mad too.

[DiegoSapiens]

also:
"Never trust a thought that didn't come by walking."
Nietzche

then whats wrong with Stephen Hawking?

[BonerJams04]

this pretty much confirms what i thought

all my daytime tunes are shiity af

[parson]

also:
"Never trust a thought that didn't come by walking."
Nietzche

then whats wrong with Stephen Hawking?

God is dead. :[

[kaili]

idk tbh i make good tunes in the morning as well

[nousd]

I've long believed that I'd draw better if I couldn't see
but, whenever I attempt to sit in the dark, my eyes light up

[magma]

I thought people already knew that sensory deprivation causes other neurons in the brain to over-fire and thus stimulate creativity? Or did I just make that up?

Yep, it's why we subconsciously close our eyes when thinking hard.

When your brain experiences a "Eureka!" moment, it's seemingly the result of all the senses blipping off for an instant... the resulting idea can feel like it came from nowhere or divinely, but it's just that the brain has a natural turbo setting which requires you to be senseless!

[magma]

my best ideas come from walking. usually during the day.

Wordsworth agreed, too.

[syrup]

Eyes closed