Comment by highwaylights
6 days ago
I never have ideas in the shower.
My best ideas always come to me when I'm almost asleep and I have no idea why that is, which is really frustrating because I know I'm never going to remember them. Sometimes I'll get up and write it down but the bar's pretty high for that because then I'm awake and I know I'll end up zombie-ing around the house for another 2 hours until I'm tired enough to sleep again.
I realise this is interesting to no-one but me, but it's WEIRD, right!?
Could it be that it's the only truly idle time you get? I find that I get my best ideas on longer solo trips, when I spend a lot of time lingering in cafés and sitting in trains with little to do.
The "hypnagogic state," anecdotally associated with creativity. (https://www.sciencefocus.com/the-human-body/why-do-i-always-...)
No, it's not weird. Ideas come where they come. Wherever you get them, be ready to grab them.
Keith Richards (of The Rolling Stones) kept a tape recorder by his bed, for exactly this reason. One morning he woke up and found that the tape was all the way at the end. He re-wound it and found that he had played a guitar riff and sung the words "I Can't Get No Satisfaction" several times. The rest of the tape was of him snoring.