The Creative Unconscious and Subconscious

With my being an English major leaning towards law or lobbyist type of job I still find myself doing one thing more and more. That thing would be writing. I consider writing as one of my hobbies. It has a special place with me just like fishing, working on cars, and playing video games do. I find it one of my more relaxing hobbies. I started writing after watching the slam poet E-Baby at the Penn State New Kensington Campus and taking Dr. Judy Lindberg's Creative Writing class there. I know that yes I seem to write rather well when I am forced to sit and write a paper or something for school; but when it comes to what I do to relax, I feel it is my best. It has also become rather apparent to me that some of my better works have come at night as. There have been numerous nights in my life after I started writing where I would find myself being jerked out of a sound sleep and scrambling for a pen and paper to write down what was on my. The next morning I would think to myself "Wow! I wrote that and I don't even remember waking up." There have even been times where I was let's say sitting in math class bored out of my skull and all of a sudden I would get the urge to just write; but I would still appear as my one friend let me that I was just daydreaming at writing.

From those points on I always carry or have a note book nearby just for these occasions. I think that most of our creativity does seem to be within our unconscious and subconscious. If you ask alot of artists, musicians, and writers they end up saying I got the idea for this in a ream I had. Which leads me to think that even though the smartest people book wise use the biggest portion of their brains they don't necessarily use more of there brain than someone who is creatively endowed to use the subconscious and unconsciousness of their brains to produce works such as Dali's Sleep, Milton's Paradise Lost, or Mozart's Requiem. It would seem that creative people tend to harness more of the brain's potential than even the most gifted scientists.