Boredom breeds creativity?

[nny]

In absolute boredom i have found myself doing bizzare things with anybody that happens to also be bored, that has included a trip to canada to buy a shot glass(than immediately turning back). Also changing a friends lock to his apartment without him knowing after... well pick locking my way in and than changing the lock.

[fauvem]

I always thought Boredom breeds insanity not creativity but then again there's little difference between the two.

[nefariousdro]

Well, depending upon who you talk to, insanity sometimes IS creativity unleashed. But I'm hardly one to speak, considering I spent 3 months casting "dragon scales" in molds and making "dragon scale armor" so that I could wear it maybe 6 times... You say insanity, I say creativity.

[whitefire]

This raises a really interesting question: Does the insanity come first or does the creativity?

I mean I have no doubt that the creative are certainly plagued by eccentricities (I hesitate to use the world "insanity" as... well I'm studying Psychology, and that word has kinda different implications for me ), but were they first eccentric and then that altered world view allowed them to see in a creative manner, or did the creative world view encourage them to be eccentric?

What a fascinating concept. Certainly it's a bit of a "Chicken and the Egg" discussion, but it's certainly fun to think about.

[nefariousdro]

Mar 24, 2010 22:53:24 GMT -5 whitefire said:

This raises a really interesting question: Does the insanity come first or does the creativity?

What a fascinating concept. Certainly it's a bit of a "Chicken and the Egg" discussion, but it's certainly fun to think about.

And then again, does the egg that guy threw at me back in high school spur some of both?
In all seriousness, though, the most wildly creative person I know has a very child-like quality to him that many people have either described as "weird" or "crazy", so at a guess, I'm inclined to say that the creativity tends to spur the eccentricity that the rest of the world seems to call "insanity". When you watch young children play, their creativity is astonishing, but you watch older children, and you see that creativity progressively getting squelched as they grow older. What is so interesting about people who retain their creativity is that in many ways they are more child-like. (Not childish, mind you, there is a difference there) You may have something with your chicken/egg scenario, but I tend to lean towards the creativity spurring the rest of the equation. For whatever my opinion is worth, that is...

[Utopia to Dystopia]

I couldn't sleep for a week once, my insomnia decided to be a jerk and flare up so I had just learned about Pangaea when all the Continents and what not were one and decided to make it a sci fi epic. There was this perfect Utopian society and this other planet got pissed and decided to destroy it, but slowly and so eventually we got the continents as we know them today weird yes, but it passed 56 hours or so

[mayhemzero]

I taught myself a made-up language and started talking in it. Hey, when you're a security guard in the middle of the night, you've got to have a good imagination. If you don't, you might well go insane.

[nefariousdro]

It must have been fun when you handed off to the next shift if you greeted them in your made up language! I once met someone who'd taught herself the Sindarin language from Lord of the Rings, I was quite impressed, in a scary and disturbing kind of way... But then, I'm now learning to play the didgeridoo, so I guess I should cast aspersions, should I?

[mayhemzero]

Exactly...and I was security for an Air Force base....I was always a little off kilter, though, so no one paid me any mind. Until they fired me for some bull. But eh, it's not worth going into here.