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Dim Lighting Sparks Creativity
Posted: Wed Jun 19, 2013 1:07 pm
by 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.
Re: Dim Lighting Sparks Creativity
Posted: Wed Jun 19, 2013 6:46 pm
by 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?
Re: Dim Lighting Sparks Creativity
Posted: Wed Jun 19, 2013 7:06 pm
by parson
my best ideas come from walking. usually during the day.
Re: Dim Lighting Sparks Creativity
Posted: Wed Jun 19, 2013 7:41 pm
by alphacat
parson wrote: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.
Re: Dim Lighting Sparks Creativity
Posted: Wed Jun 19, 2013 8:17 pm
by 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.
Re: Dim Lighting Sparks Creativity
Posted: Wed Jun 19, 2013 8:29 pm
by AxeD
I'd like dim lighted life, but wearing sunglasses everywhere makes you a doejsbeck.
Re: Dim Lighting Sparks Creativity
Posted: Wed Jun 19, 2013 10:00 pm
by DiegoSapiens
parson wrote:my best ideas come from wanking. usually during the day.
Re: Dim Lighting Sparks Creativity
Posted: Wed Jun 19, 2013 10:24 pm
by parson
obv i have less ideas during the summer
Re: Dim Lighting Sparks Creativity
Posted: Wed Jun 19, 2013 10:25 pm
by parson
also:
"Never trust a thought that didn't come by walking."
Nietzche
Re: Dim Lighting Sparks Creativity
Posted: Wed Jun 19, 2013 10:27 pm
by Pedro Sánchez
parson wrote:my best ideas come from walking. usually during the day.
Oh you said 'walking' for a minute there I...
Re: Dim Lighting Sparks Creativity
Posted: Wed Jun 19, 2013 10:27 pm
by 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.
Re: Dim Lighting Sparks Creativity
Posted: Wed Jun 19, 2013 10:28 pm
by DiegoSapiens
parson wrote:also:
"Never trust a thought that didn't come by walking."
Nietzche
then whats wrong with Stephen Hawking?
Re: Dim Lighting Sparks Creativity
Posted: Wed Jun 19, 2013 10:29 pm
by BonerJams04
this pretty much confirms what i thought
all my daytime tunes are shiity af
Re: Dim Lighting Sparks Creativity
Posted: Wed Jun 19, 2013 11:35 pm
by parson
DiegoSapiens wrote:parson wrote:also:
"Never trust a thought that didn't come by walking."
Nietzche
then whats wrong with Stephen Hawking?
God is dead. :[
Re: Dim Lighting Sparks Creativity
Posted: Thu Jun 20, 2013 12:13 am
by kaili
idk tbh i make good tunes in the morning as well
Re: Dim Lighting Sparks Creativity
Posted: Thu Jun 20, 2013 2:04 pm
by 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
Re: Dim Lighting Sparks Creativity
Posted: Thu Jun 20, 2013 3:38 pm
by magma
hugh wrote: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!
Re: Dim Lighting Sparks Creativity
Posted: Thu Jun 20, 2013 3:39 pm
by magma
parson wrote:my best ideas come from walking. usually during the day.
Wordsworth agreed, too.
Re: Dim Lighting Sparks Creativity
Posted: Sun Jun 23, 2013 5:08 pm
by syrup
Eyes closed