Floating provides time in a distraction-free environment. This environment has a number of implications for creativity….
1) As discussed in our August Float Notes, floatation tanks are an ideal setting for inducing a state of theta brainwave activity.
During this twilight theta stage we often have unpredictable, vivid, dreamlike mental images. These may include memories, reveries, free associations, and insights or inspirations.
2) Tank time is an opportunity to better synchronize the right and left hemispheres of our brain. The left brain is more analytical, and is better at things like reading, writing, and computations. The right brain is more visual and intuitive and is the seat of imagination, intuition, visualization, and daydreaming.
Although we use both halves of our brain all the time, in the absence of distractions, we are free to make associations, see patterns, and intuitively rearrange the details, logic, and words that are the focus of the left hemisphere.
3) Finally, as floating becomes part of your regular creative process, come to your float prepared with questions to answer and problems to solve. Tank time is the ideal time to consider big questions about composition, theme, color, and rhythm.
Leave your critical voice outside the tank and trust the float experience will take you where you need to go.