The creative mind

Alright, so the time is nwo 12:25 and I am still up. And to behonest this is fairly early for me. For the pst 5 days or so my nights have run into the morning. Healthy? No way. And yet I seem to not be able to rest at night. Lately I have been immersed in the creative subculture exploring all things from photography, photothearpy, musicianship, lyricism, writing and the appreciation of good acting in movies. My mind seems to hae his own concerns right now and it does not include much logic in that plan, thus the insane hours. It is most definitely satisfying a crazy need in me, and I seem to be compelled to explore some of these things but it doesn't leave much time for the concerns of living.

In delving into this subculture, I have had many conversations along the creative mind and how it works and it has left me wondering. The consensus seems to be that the best inspiration and the best work happens in the night hours when most of the world rests and is asleep. I have talked to many different creative types over the last few days and this seems to the norm. I know it remains true for me, oftentimes I am awoken with an inspiration and more often than not I have lyrics running through my head as I drfit to sleep. Which really becomes a pain cuz then I have to get up and write them down and then I wake up again. I know this is true for myd daughter, she came and asked me permission to have pen and paper by her side cuz all her ideas for her songs come to her as she is falling asleep. How could I say no to that? It is the affliction of the creative and I suffer with it alongside her. It seems to be one of those inborn things, if your mind is at all creative then it haunts you in the night.

And so the logical side of my brain decided it had to kick in and figure this out and this is the best that I have come up with so far, and feel free to weigh in. It seems that in the night, when we are supposed to sleep, our minds are freed from the logical concerns of living and the pressures of the day. It can have free rein as nothing that is logical is demanding its attention. It seems that this may be one of the few times, that we allow our mind to go where it will without filtering. That said, for those of us that create, this is then the time that our brains have to be and do what they love without being reined in or shut down to deal with the "more" pressing concerns of living.

And here is additional interesting side note. I write this blog tonight and my brain is tired, the heaviness and the call of sleep weighs heavy on me right now and yet right before this blog nto 10 minutes ago, I was delving into the creative and tiredness did not even occur to me......

Some food for thought and I would love to hear your take on it all....