When do you come up with your great ideas,and where?

bright idea - when and where do you get yours
United States
November 24, 2007 7:47pm CST
It seems like everytime i close my eyes at night while I'm in bed,I get an idea on a post to do here,or my other sites,or a new post to go into my blogs. I hate it because i can't jump up and run to the computer,and I can't write it down,because i have no lamp by my bed. So it got me to thinking,when do you have your ideas? And where do you have them? I also notice when I don't get to post it right then,or write it down,I lose it and when I try to rethink it when I am in front of the computer or a piece of paper,I can't get it to sound as good as it did at the time in my head. What's your take on all this?
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raychill
@raychill (6525)
• United States
25 Nov 07
There normally isn't a specific time or place that I get ideas. It's always at different times of day and such. I write an electronic sign for my job that displays important things each week. So I get inspiration for new questions and stuff I have to change every week at any given time and sometimes it sucks cause I can't write them down! Usually I write them, when I can write them, in a gmail email to myself to remember for when I get to work.
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babyangie27
@babyangie27 (5176)
• United States
25 Nov 07
Oh that is great,byt the way i post a discussion about CSI,last week and you didn't reply,what happend??? Anyways thanks.
raychill
@raychill (6525)
• United States
25 Nov 07
Really? I think I must have missed it. I'll have to go back and look!
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tails5
@tails5 (115)
• Australia
25 Nov 07
That happens to me aswell, maybe you could have a writing pad next to your bed, and just write what you think of as it comes to you?
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babyangie27
@babyangie27 (5176)
• United States
25 Nov 07
i could if I could see,lol. I have no light by my bed,and I don't want to risk waking the sleeping hubby.
tails5
@tails5 (115)
• Australia
25 Nov 07
Perhaps you could just try to write blindly and see how it looks? I did it once, wrote an entire paragraph with no light, it was messy, but I could read it enough to type it onto the computer when I woke up in the morning.
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byfaithonly
@byfaithonly (10698)
• United States
1 Dec 07
Yep then, when laying in bed, or when driving down the road. Problem with me is by the time I get to 'myLot' I do a search and someone else has already posted a discussion on the topic I came up with :( Oh well easier just to respond to other people's discussions :)
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babyangie27
@babyangie27 (5176)
• United States
1 Dec 07
Well that has happend to me a few times as well. And yes responding is easier when you can't make your own,lol.
twoey68
@twoey68 (13627)
• United States
25 Nov 07
Sometimes when I go to bed the idea's will flow from me like water. I take a notepad and pen and my hand just goes and goes until I fall asleep. In the morning I get to try to decipher it LOL MERRY CHRISTMAS!! **AT PEACE WITHIN** ~~STAND STRONG IN YOUR BELIEFS~~
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babyangie27
@babyangie27 (5176)
• United States
25 Nov 07
Lol I am going to do this starting tonight,it might even help me get to sleep. thanks