![]() ![]() It isn't always clear how much the writing is really unconscious, as the less planned it is, the more incomprehensible and worthless the output tends to be. Just don't think there's anything supernatural about it. However, as an aid (or shortcut) to creativity, it can potentially have its uses. Claims by surrealists that it revealed unconscious desires and thoughts, or would create a better world by bringing about a union of the conscious and unconscious, are probably as silly as any claims that dead people were guiding the pencil. It was particularly popular with the Surrealists, such as André Breton and Philippe Soupault's prose work The Magnetic Fields (1920) and André Masson's drawings. This can combine into an impressive and convincing performance that exploits all the usual tricks that mediums utilise to fool their audience.Īutomatic writing and drawing have also been used by many artists, hoping to stimulate creativity and produce something artistic without the effort of having to think about it. A performer can start with fairly basic and free-flowing pen movements and gradually get far clearer writing as their "trance" deepens and their "connection" to the spiritual world increases. Naturally, both of these forms of automatic writing can blend together. In this case, it could be that the medium can be excused of fraud and deceit, as rather than actively tricking people, they are merely letting their audience see what they want to see (and possibly fooling themselves into thinking they are really channeling the "beyond"). At least with legible writing, there is something to read clearly, but with scribbles, it may be a case of extreme pareidolia that provides the information content of the writing. This can be different to where legible writing is produced because most of the trick lies in the interpretation of the result after it is written. Often automatic writing is "taught" by having students relax and let their pens wander over paper freely. Like with any psychic power, there has never been any confirmation that this works better than guessing the information the channeller has been asked for. ![]() Like a psychic medium putting on a funky accent, it might be clear that the channeller is, in fact, consciously writing down what they - or their audience - want to see. The creative mind is relaxed, receptive, inwardly-focused, whereas the day-mind looks outward, rapidly assessing events according to the evidence of the senses and rational thought.Īs writers, we have to be able to immerse ourselves in the inner world, whatever the pull of the world outside, with all its demands and distractions.Įstablishing regular dream recalling and recording is wonderful practice for this, in that it also requires us to hold the middle ground between fact and fantasy, not allowing the dayworld to sweep the story away before we are ready.If the writing is legible, it's difficult to say whether the writing was done "automatically" or not. ![]() If someone phones me when I’m in the middle of writing, I find it hard to follow the conversation because my mind is in a different mode. Everyone who writes will have had that experience of being in ‘the writer’s trance,’ so absorbed in the world of the story that the real world fades clean away. Stephen King, in his book, ‘On Writing,’ describes how emerging from a writing session feels like waking from a dream. ![]()
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