Foxwedge, creative process, why I'm here.

[foxwedge]

This is Mike Flores. Foxwedge is my latest alias. I kind of like it. Foxwedge. Like most of my better ideas. It came in a little whisper to my conscious mind from my subconscious. I didn't even realize the word has an actual definition, until I looked it up and was pleasantly surprised. I think it's a keeper, has a nice ring. Foxwedge. Anybody else have a similar creative process? Or even know what I'm talking about? It's kind of a subtle, vague little voice or musical idea that comes out of no where in the back of my mind, usually when I'm in another totally unrelated train of thought. I'll immediately write it down or record it before it's forgotten. 

Yup, i made the jump over here from FB for a couple of reasons:

1. I needed a change from FB. I feel like my brain is turning to mush over there ( and no it doesn't have anything to do with drugs).
2. I just need general change in my life right now in any form I can get it.
3. It's important to keep the last vestiges of guitar geekiness in me alive before they slip away to nothingness. This group has been instrumental in doing that, even if I don't really know what anybody's talking about half the time. 🙂 I'm playing daily, writing, and collaborating again after what, in retrospect, was probably too long of a break. So I'll have more to offer in that area as time goes on, hopefully.
4. The general sense of fraternal comradery. It's a good thing.

anyways, cheers, just thought I'd stop by and make my presence known. Like I've said before I'm not very familiar with forums, so please excuse any snags or blunders I may create as I adjust to the new format. 

[chrissh]

Heyo, Mike.

Yeah, most ideas come to me without intentionally pursuing them ("intuition"), usually when I'm tired or drifting off to sleep and executive functions are kind of relaxed (hypnagogia), thoughts are more divergent and you come up with unexpected associations. Other times it's a conscious inspiration to transform something I experience directly, like hearing a song in a store or in the car and wanting to mutate part of it beyond recogniton.

If there's some feeling of possibility attached, I'll write down some sort of kernel of the idea to remember it, maybe just a word or two, or a doodle. That kernel holds potential to grow associated ideas.

In general it's just being curious, willing to suspend judgment and make a mess, and cultivating whatever sources you discover are personally fertile.

[sonicdeviant]

We have a collective consciousness, so I'm not surprised when folks intuitively come across ideas that seem totally off the wall but actually turn out to be something real. There's always the argument that the person came across something and registered it unconsciously, but our dreams do have archetypes that appear across cultures. We're all connected.

[foxwedge]

Right on, I was just talking about that with a friend. The separation of consciousness that causes all the strife and division in the world is nothing more than an illusion that we are too scared to let go of. I'm feeling a little lazy right now to explain it thoroughly but that's basically the gist of it. What I'm talking about in my creative process is literally a voice or sound that I hear in my mind. I usually react with a " woah, that was weird!" because it pretty much drops out of the blue. I wish it happened more often and I wish I could explain it better. Anyways, I don't want to jinx myself.

[sonicdeviant]

Don't fight it brother. Just go with it. Embrace what the universe gives you.