If you were to determine your "creativity" level, what would it be.

• Vivid ("Very Creative, Can come up with something out of no where")
• Inside The Box/Average ("Normal Imagination, Lessed Used when Adult")
• None ("Don't have one")

I think I'm more of a Vivid thinker...What about all of you?

This post has been edited by Amrykid: 30 Jun, 2009 - 03:39 PM

If I was to rank my imagination it would have to god like. Just kidding, I have an incredibly vivid imagination, always have. I can come up with new an interesting ideas with little problem. My problem tends to be with follow through, I get bored easily and want to move on to the next great idea.

absurdist.

so if I use one of your three:
*Vivid
*Inside The Box/Average
*None
does that mean that I would be inside the box or nothing?

Depends, honestly. Some days are are vivid enough that Salvador Dali's mustache would curl with envy. Occasionally, the weird mental wonder works tunes to a white cow in a snow storm.

My mind is very quick at making connections, which is a strange kind of imagination on it's own. e.g. I see a crow, think of a Raven, Poe, Hugin, Munin, Odin, Thor's hammer, Tower of London, Beef Eaters, Halberds, back to Odin, and so on, and so on.

is your mind very stream of consciousness? (i mean, i realize technically they all are, but is the image that phrase tends to conjure for most most people how your brain works all the time? i feel like that pretty often)

Generally, I'd say vivid.
It usually happens without me even trying. I used to imagine all kinds of terrible things all the time, it was hard to stop.

Now, most of the time I just imagine...well, you don't want to know.

But yeah, vivid.

I would have to say mine is vivid.

I would say: "Shifty"

Thanks to that song, now every time I see that word I think:
Five plus five is shfifty-five!

//love that song!

Shiggity What?

Stream of consciousness can be very chaotic. Most people don't bother to try to tame the chaos. I used to meditate a lot. I can turn down the noise at need and usually focus it where I want it.

I never liked the idea of a simple linear thought process. We come down to linear when forced to think in words, because they must follow one after the other. I think our minds do a lot parallel work, with a ton of background processing. When someone says "oh, wait, I just thought of it..." they're saying that a process they were consciously unaware of yielded enough of a result to let everyone else share.

If you can quiet your mind, it's entertaining watching the distractions form. That may be the true seat of imagination. I don't know. When I talk about the free association of silliness, it's not stream of consciousness but more instance association.

A good example is when you see something that makes you laugh, then someone wants you to explain the joke. Not only does it usually kill all the funny, but it makes you realize how many elements you were drawing from to get a chuckle. e.g. I saw a car on the road the other day and laughed so hard I hurt myself. It was a dinky little thing, maybe a Fiero, with a pair of signs mounted on the back. The signs were chrome silhouettes of buxom women, on asses, knees in air. Things you have to know to laugh: the signs are "hooker" signs you see on a number of long hall tractor trailers. They indicate that the driver would not be adverse to being propositioned by a prostitute at an overnight rest stop. The idea of anyone getting laid in a Fiero is comical, if not absurd. It's just as good if the idiot in the car doesn't know what the tags means. There was probably more that made me laugh, but that's the clean stuff.

I am perpetually amused by mostly mundane stuff. There is an inherent absurdity almost all human activity. What makes it worse is that most of the players don't seem to be in on the joke.

Haha, my imagination is almost too vivid. I will often come up with things that are just so out there I often some share it in case people start thinking I am going crazy.

I don't know. Mine usually consists of zombies, Final Fantasy, Lolcats, or all of the above. .... so wierd. I have a wierd imagination...

None whatsoever.

Pornographic

Lurid.

yeah, that happens to me alot

I'm a roleplayer, so mine is quite vivid...especially with Absynthe's comment, lol

Unfortunately I don't seem to have an imagination.

Even when I do get ideas for things I then get bored too easily meaning I will often not see things through.

Having said that a project that interests me and challenges me will have my attention till it's done, but then I become a perfectionist and want everything to be perfect.... then if I can't get it perfect or at least close to then the boredem starts to come back.

But if I have enough projects on the go I will swap between till I get them all done... sometimes just taking a break from something can really help you progress in it (wait ... doesn't that contradict itself?)

Kind of a vicious circle lol