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memory fault or deja vue or just a time lag?
Having written a phrase, paragraph or even a page: If it comes easily, and sometimes if I really sweat blood over it, I can feel as if someone else wrote it, even though I haven't copied a word of it. If you can help with this I'll be very pleased, because I've put up with this for quite a long time.
It makes me wonder if it's old creative memories I am latching onto. I tried finding the actual memories, but this method isn't it at all most of the time, since quite a bit of what I write is totally outside my experience.
I'm sure there are many fantasy stories I could apply it to, but I don't write fantasy, just ordinary fiction, sometimes with an unusual viewpoint or twist in the tale. Thanks for your help, I'll try the web sites you mentions. Thanks again.
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- 8 years agoFavorite Answer
I have no sure explanation, but I understand the feeling and have wondered about this for a long time as well. Sometimes I write and it feels like me, or the conscious me I think I am anyway. Other times I get so immersed in the flow of writing I come out of it feeling that I was a conduit for something other than "I". After gaining more experience chanting lately I've noticed a similarity. When you chant or pray repetitively you are focusing your whole being. After about ten minutes of chanting I start to get sentences or phrases or feelings that don't seem to come from the me I am used to on a conscious level. The same also happens when I become obsessed with an idea and study it very intensely.
So it seems to happen when we are immersed in something, consumed by something. Perhaps the unconscious really is unfurled and that muse is that part of us that records without judgment, set free? What's particularly interesting to me is that while I attempt to write originally it feels as if it comes from deep within, though slightly foreign, and when studying other people's ideas and work intensely I feel as if I have connected to something above my head and external to me. No matter what direction there is an energy that accompanies times like these that feels like heat, vibration, perhaps a chain reaction.
Lots of other people have felt these things and the inner inspiration has been communicated through the concepts of the Greek Muses and divine inspiration. Noosphere is a term I have found that seems to provide a possible explanation for the external mechanism. I'm not sure there is an external/internal duality actually. Or I mean to say, I'm not sure there are two "sources" or one or really what the hell is going on. Writing and chanting feel like absorbing vast amounts of internal information and studying feels like absorbing vast amounts of external information and the mechanisms and sensations seem and feel to be different to me.
What does it feel like to you when this happens? What kind of sensations or thoughts or feelings do you have? What do you think about it?
Source(s): Teilhard de Chardin Greek Muses Divine inspiration Jung Noosphere
