I'm putting this in the screenwriting lounge but it would easily fit in other lounges. With David Lynch's recent passing, I've been thinking about him a lot. I re-watched MULHOLLAND DRIVE and was once again shook to my core. I watched his Masterclass and was greatly encouraged. I also have been thinking about his love and passionate promotion of transcendental meditation. (See video below)
And I have a question for you all: Do you incorporate meditation of one kind or another into your creative process? If so, what do you do and how does it help? If you don't, what do you do? Do you have a regular thing you do to get ideas and to expand your creative thinking?
David Lynch on Consciousness, Creativity and the Brain (Transcendental Meditation):
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Hi Tucker, my buddy is a huge fan of him. I know he's missing him
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So sad. I miss him
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Hi Tucker Teague
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I’ve been pondering the idea of meditation in my day to day life, it seems like David was able to influence so many people i. his life and fans into meditation!
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Yin Yang rules the universe.
My best ideas come through Yin Yang. and Yin Yang doesn’t care if it happens Yang then Yin.
So… my best ideas come after actively going deep on something through conversation, online exchange, white boarding concepts… deep but scattered. Yang is the active.
Then, I leave it. And it’s in those passive moments that awesome shit comes almost from a divine source… but really it’s the neurons in my gray matter. I can be stretching at the gym after a workout, walking in the city or country, in a museum… but wherever, I’m alone and… the magic appears.
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Jack Vincent this makes sense and is similar to my own experience. There needs to be a mind-active period followed by a mind-passive period where the mind is relaxed and has let go, at least at the conscious level. In that state the ideas appear, but it often take the mind-active period to still the pot so to speak.
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It's music for me. That's my meditation. When I listen to music, my imagination goes into overdrive.
I used to have a lot of ideas when going to sleep or napping, but that seems to have faded for me. George Miller and Byron Kennedy actually experimented with sleeping and creative inspiration when writing Mad Max 2.
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CJ Walley similar for me. Music often helps me a lot.
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An alternative to meditation is to go to the gym. Besides, our bodies are such that we should use our muscles. I have myself had ideas when riding the bicycle. Then there is the sauna.