I experience that I think alot more in some situations more than others.
I didn't want to post this thread in the general forum because I guessed it was a bit too irrelevant from autism, and, because I wanted to have the thread going fo a while.
I guess I should have added:
-While listening to music, would be nice if anyone could give more examples of situations you get ideas in.
I usually get my ideas at night, when I'm the most mentally active.
When I'm watching movies or reading books, I tend to run chains of thought really quickly through my mind as I analyse the events, and end up getting a new idea for Local Reality.
I get ideas in my dreams, usually halfway to waking.
Or when I'm out walking.
Or when I'm reading, or doing anything to do with obsessions - because that's what gets my head agitated enough to start thinking of ideas.
Or when I'm writing.
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Something that happens to me, incredibly often, is that I could be stuck doing something for hours and get really frustrated with it, I will then take a small break where I will not think of the problem at all, and then I go back to it and solve it instantly, with hardly any thought.
Like after a sleep. It is widely known that you are better at solving riddles if you have slept after the problem was present to you.
Not sleep exactly, but it is one of the things I do.
Though it could be anything like making myself a sandwich or something, just to remove the frustration.
I think either it is the frustration that provents me from solving the puzzle, once it is gone I can do it. Or that my mind is subconciously working on the problem whilst I take my break.
I tend to find I get ideas after taking a small break from a frustrating task and doing something totally different. Quite often the idea for a solution then just pops into my mind. If it doesn't then I know it will be a very tricky problem indeed. However, sometimes the solution randomly comes to mind days or even weeks later.
Something that happens to me, incredibly often, is that I could be stuck doing something for hours and get really frustrated with it, I will then take a small break where I will not think of the problem at all, and then I go back to it and solve it instantly, with hardly any thought.
Ah. That would be your subconscious. Same thing happens to me a lot, also. The basic principal with writer's block or anything else like it is, if you spend your time banging your head against a wall, all you'll come away with is a headache.
I putting down all my ideas to a big strategy PC game that just HAVE TO be made!
When I read world history I see many aspects of it which want to somehow have in the game.
I get my ideas when I have free time at school, this is when i sit back and day dream and let my AMAZING mind take over. I get 90% of my book ideas in this state.
When my brian is done thinking.
My brain even... which seems to be on holidays tonight
I get most of my ideas aperceptively from my environment. They just accumulate until they go *pop* into this giant vision. I think divine inspiration has a lot to do with it too
