I have often referred to the fact that I have many of my creative ideas as I'm falling asleep or in the middle of the night. Similarly, when I was at college, I used to do my best work in the 'wee small hours'. Having considered the facts and also reading about other people who work in the quiet times of the day, it seems that there is a place within the human psyche where creativity lives.
A black hole is an area of such immense gravity that nothing—not even light—can escape from it. Black holes form at the end of some stars' lives.
The creative margin seems to be rather like the event horizon (crudely the edge) of a black hole. As you are falling asleep your mind naturally runs over the events of the day and also the plans for the following few days. I have quite a visual way of carrying out that process and also tend to project forward possible scenarios for the next set of appointments both stressful and otherwise. It's amazing the lengths to which my imagination goes to scare the living daylights out of me for a trip to the dentist. This is the imagination creating scenarios.
It is also the point at which ideas flash into mind. So the creative margin or event horizon leads to the events drifting away as you fall asleep. Rather like objects being sucked into a black hole. At this point, I have been known to ask Alexa to remind me of what I've imagined the following morning.
Alexa is Amazon's AI identity.
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