Imaginative Play and Adult Consciousness
Had an interesting abstract run across my virtual desk today with somewhat of a parallel to my earlier post talking about Warren Ellis’ idea of the importance of letting your brain out to hunt ideas.
The journal Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity and the Arts had this to say in an article titled “Researching imaginative play and adult consciousness: Implications for daily and literary creativity.”
Attending to human phenomena like daydreaming and fantasy may be likely to enhance our everyday problem-solving abilities as well as our aesthetic enjoyment of creative novels and dramas built around characters’ “private” thoughts.
While I don’t have access to the full article, it seems to be a meta-analysis of six decades worth of work connecting one’s consciousness, experiences and daydreams with ingenuity in everyday life.
Score another win for letting your brain out of its cage.
(The link provided to that particular article via the RSS feed seems to be broken, and oddly I can’t find the article on the journal’s site itself yet. But I promise it’s real.)