Reading a work of fiction I stumbled across something very interesting. It may or may not be true, but it sounds right. Why do writers and artist work well under stress, pain or depression. Check this out.


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..."according to split brain physiology, your brain is divided like a walnut into two halves."

The left half of your brain deals with logic, language, calculation, and reason, he says. This is the half people perceive as their identity. This is the conscious, rational, everyday basis of our reality.

The right side of your brain, the doctor tells her, is the center of your intuition, emotion, insight, and pattern recognition skills. Your subconscious.

"Your left brain is a scientist," the doctor says. "Your right brain is the artist"

He says people live their lives out of the left half of their brains. It's only when someone is in extreme pain, or upset or sick, that their subconscious can slip into their conscious. When someone's injured or sick or mourning or depressed, the right brain can take over for a flash, just an instant, and give them access to divine
inspiration.
A flash of inspiration. A moment of insight.

The french psychologist Pierre Janet called this condition "the lowering of the mental threshold."

- "Diary", Chuck Palahniuk
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Read this book, it is awesome.