Does anyone feel more creative when hungover?

TechS

TechS

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Don't know about you guys, but I have a nice little schedule where I get absolutely plastered most saturday nights.

I always wake up sleep deprived, feeling like shit physically, but lately I've been noticing an interesting pattern. On Sunday I often experienced enhanced critical thinking and creative breakthroughs.

I just feel a bit looser and better able to look at things from an outside perspective.

Don't know if it's the fact that I designate sunday as a day of rest, or has something to do chemically with my brain and alcohol.

Here is an interesting article I found that backs up my speculations:
Your hangover makes you smarter* | The Bleader
 


If a hangover makes you more creative then walking around out in the heat until your dehydrated should yield the same results.
 
You might have creative breakthroughs but can you knuckle down to do the actual work? I can't do a tap on a hangover, just don't care enough.
 
Actually yes, I was too hungover to do proper work yesterday and had a good day planning shit in my head. Not sure if it was good creative stuff or la la land yet.
 
I feel extremely creative after I've had a good run. I sometimes have to carry a pen and pad because ideas flow so clearly. I feel like crap hungover.
 
I don't really get anything done with a hangover. I feel creative when I'm being active and out doing something. I use Evernote now to keep track of everything I think of.
 
"Well ya see, Norm, it's like this... A herd of buffalo can only move as fast as the slowest buffalo. And when the herd is hunted, it is the slowest and weakest ones at the back that are killed first. This natural selection is good for the herd as a whole, because the general speed and health of the whole group keeps improving by the regular killing of the weakest members.

"In much the same way, the human brain can only operate as fast as the slowest brain cells. Excessive intake of alcohol, as we know, kills brain cells. But naturally it attacks the slowest and weakest brain cells first.

In this way, regular consumption of beer eliminates the weaker brain cells, making the brain a faster and more efficient machine. That's why you always feel smarter after a few beers."

-Cliff Clavin
 
If you really think about it you will get more done without drinking or with drugs, you may get a creative flash but persistance and hard work are going to do more for you then your hungover creative flashes....
 
It can happen that disruptions in normal brain biochemistry can open a window for creative breakthroughs, but alcohol is the worst way to achieve that imo. If you have certain inclination for it, why not trying pot, shrooms, amphs or alike stuff? Those are real feeders of creativity, to me at least.
 
A lot of you confuse creativity with productivity here... get hungover... lay in bed a bit with a headache when you wake up... get up... get some medicine aka vodka cran for me... headache is gone... lay on a couch/bed... get a pen and a notepad... sketching and building a plan of action time... don't try to get productive... just creative... forget about everything else, just know that you are trying to get new ideas and you like doing it.

I've been hungover for the past few months almost daily, treating this time as vacation and doing shit I like doing, as I was having a hard time to focus, just flying around seeing friends, some new and some of which I haven't seen for 20+ years, childhood friends in big cities that seemed too far to visit at some point. Decided to take some time off, a lot of time off actually as I lost all the interest and goals, yet, when I wake up, pen and paper is there... and they just draw and write everything out on their own, thought-flow... Have about a week to go until I go from creative back to productive... May be I went too far with this, and don't recommend taking a few hangover months to anybody here as I am just split testing myself... Just thought I needed it, still leaving 2 days a week to do some work so I don't forget what I do, keep up to date and still pay my bills...
 
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