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[MMK]

Creativity involves the forming of associative elements into new combinations that are useful or meet some requirement. Sleep aids this process REM rather than NREM sleep appears to be responsible.This has been suggested to be due to changes in cholinergic and noradrenergic neuromodulation that occurs during REM sleep.During this period of sleep, high levels of acetylcholine in the hippocampus suppress feedback from the hippocampus to the neocortex, and lower levels of acetylcholine and norepinephrine in the neocortex encourage the spread of associational activity within neocortical areas without control from the hippocampus This is in contrast to waking consciousness, where higher levels of norepinephrine and acetylcholine inhibit recurrent connections in the neocortex. It is proposed that REM sleep would add creativity by allowing "neocortical structures to reorganize associative hierarchies, in which information from the hippocampus would be reinterpreted in relation to previous semantic representations or nodes.

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I wanted all senior patient (Those who have lived with this disease for more years as compared to me) Whether creativity is increased in you due to Narcolepsy? What you feel N and artistic temprament

[butterflygirl]

I may tend to agree with the creativity thing. I have always been artistic/creative and have had N since high school. Some of my best ideas evolve during sleep and the joy is I can usually remember them quite vividly.

[SleepingPhoenix]

I dont know about you too, but yes I was creative and highly artistic. Still When I needed a solution to my problems I knew I'd find it in my sleep and kept a notebook near my bed to keep notes of ideas and even wrote poems. I think thing got weird when my hipnogogic hallucinations got creative too. I started seeing and interacting with weird animals in my room. At the beggining I thought I was crazy and I even went to a Psychiatrist to place me in a ward, but she was the one who first made questions and reffered me to the doctors that now diagnosed me with narcolepsy. I was even having cataplexy and I was in total denial thiking I was getting weak and old, before my time due to stress.

So you know, and in a lighter note, I still miss the cute little violet and fushia octopuss, with a whoopie-cushion head. It got mad at me when I pulled it out of the toilet tank and ask me to hold him tight and I didn't want to cause I knew it would fart. Green cats, blue dogs, and a long hair buffalo with dog poop as hair and it purred like a cat, were part of my "Wonderland". Now that I'm getting treated all this bursts of creativity are gone. I haven't write a poem in months, and I used to write daily.

All I hope is that if Chester (Alice in Wonderland Cat) returns to my dreams I'll be ok. But only in my dreams, not after I wake up.