Consciousness controls behavior and correlates it with the standard regulations of the society. Human depends on the society and does not dare to break the rules and cross inappropriate boundaries. Instincts and secret desires are suppressed and appear in dreams when they are not controlled by the mind. This much has been written by Sigmund Freud, Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis in his books. But what is the connection between creativity and psychoanalysis? Creativity needs a stretch of imagination, running beyond of common thinking.
All artists, including me, have experience with people around them. They often do not understand art, but try to impose their stereotypes. Sometimes they simply want to control the content of artworks and even style. Artists are also affected by the environment and conservative society, which often has a dream to cut the wings of an artist with an eye to prevent to fly in the sky and make him be down to earth.
In addition, the consciousness of the artist controls him and distracts from creativity, when an artist is involved in the solution of daily problems.
Probably for this reason in America enthusiasm with LSD psychotropic substances greatly influenced the formation of the counterculture of the sixties and seventies. Widely known phrase of Dr. Leary, has turned into the motto of psychedelic use of supporters: «Turn on, tune in, drop out» The word drop out meant leaving of conservative mores and lifestyle mainstream society. Many creative people believed that the altered state of consciousness and the expansion of consciousness under the influence of LSD contribute to the development of their creativity and Altered State is an experience through which one enters into the Separate Reality of the Mind or the Unlimited Resources of the Universe for the purposes of expanding consciousness, creativity, enlightenment, spiritual awareness or to just realize we are more than our physical body.
According to A. Revonsuo mainly a characteristic feature of altered states of consciousness is the systemic changes (relative to the normal state of consciousness) of the connection between experience content and the real world. There is a distorted view of external reality or self-awareness in the form of hallucinations or delusions, and these distortions are added to global change representations.
We know the consequences of drug use and I do not call to expand the consciousness using drugs. By the way I've never used drugs. Currently meditation, and music are considered by a lot of movements as a way to obtain the altered consciousness. State of meditation similar to the sleep state. Therefore, people feel more creative in a dream
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