Those in normal light are no more creative than those in bright light
And we can become more creative just by thinking about being in dim light
Dimming the lights can increase your creativity levels, new research reveals.
German researchers found that people sitting in dim light are significantly better able to solve creative insight problems than those working under normal or bright lights.
However, people working under normal lights are no more creative than those in very bright light.
People sitting in dim light are significantly better able to solve creative insight problems than those working under normal or bright lights
They also discovered that people who work under dim lights feel 'free from constraints'.
The researchers, at the University of Stuttgart and the University of Hohenheim, believe that this perceived increase in freedom improves people's creative performance.
Medical Daily reports that a person can actually increase their creativity just by describing sitting in the dark because of a psychological effect known as priming - this occurs when a person moves an idea to the forefront of their brain by recalling it.
The researchers drew these conclusions after asking two groups of people to sketch an alien.
They found that the people who recalled sitting in a dark room drew more creative aliens than those who first recalled sitting in a bright room.
However, they believe that dim lighting is only beneficial for ideas generation, not for the analysis and implementation that follows.
'Darkness changes a room's visual message,' they told Medical Daily.
They went on to explain that moving from a dark room to a light one can have a symbolic significance - like a 'Eureka' moment.
Source: Journal of Environmental Psychology.
makes me think of blind people.
So what if we were to learn the alphabet of the blind people and read books made for them in the dark? Or listen to a an audio version of the book (or record it during the day). What would be the effect? Chessmasters are actually trained in this way - to be able to see the position of and "move" the pieces in their head so as to increase their inner vision.....