From numbness to creativity

An interesting thing has happened to me in the past week. Brenda and I decided to unplug the television and DVD/VCR player and put them in the closet for the season of Lent. We even rearranged our living room to have all the furniture in a circle-like setting facing each other. We look so Old German Baptist Brethren now! I have found that I am not as addicted to the tube as I thought I was. I’ve not had any problems with the temptation to plug it back in (trust me it is there). The book I am currently reading suggests that giving up television is an excellent way to move beyond other addictions. I see this working because I have had less of a desire to eat fast food (which really is my addiction); maybe it is not seeing all those commercials but it’s working for me. It is nice to sit in the living room during quiet evenings with Brenda as she does her knitting or punch needling and I am reading or writing. It’s nice to not have to talk over the TV to hear each other.

That’s not what I wanted to blog about, that was just the background to what I really have been experiencing this past week.

Coincidently, since I have not had the barrage of distractions via the TV, I have noticed that I am dreaming a lot more. A LOT MORE! I know, I know, we all dream whether we remember it or not, but I am really dreaming! I have had multiple dreams in one night for the past week and I can remember them, which is something that rarely happens!

Not only am I remembering more of my dreams, but also I have noticed a new streak of creativity! I have written brand new songs that have just been coming to me as well as other ways of increased creativity. Maybe this is because we haven’t had the distractions that we had before but I am beginning to believe that it is a result of not having my mind fixed on a box with moving pictures that does my thinking for me and zaps my creativity. I’ll post more later as the weeks progress.