….. NOT

I seemed to think that most of my songwriting ideas came just before I was about to go to bed in the early/late hours of the morning, or after 11pm at night.  I didn’t know if it was because I was physically exhausted and I was so relaxed that ideas just flew out of my head..

Well myself, in Mythbusters style decided to test the theory  <spoken in Robert Lee’s American accent (yes, he’s an Aussie)>Does lack of sleep equal creativity?</Robert Lee’s voice over>.

Adam: So for this Myth we need to test if lack of sleep makes someone more creative
Jamie: Well that sounds kind of simple..
Adam: Yes and no.  So what we have to do is deprive a songwriter of sleep for say a week and check out the quality and quantity of their output compared to their previous week.  The only downside for this myth is that there is no baseline, but I hope the result will be quite obvious, either there will be an influx of songs or there will be next to zero.
Jamie: Sounds like a plan

So I stepped up to the plate…. for one week I slept for about 3-4 hours a night… by about the 3rd day my work and creativity were slacking.  Although there is no hard evidence for this, for me it doesn’t work.. if anything it just makes me grumpy and edgy which affects everyone around me… So for me, this Myth was definately ‘busted’.

Best time to write a song for me… you guessed it, when on the throne… and after a good nights sleep.  I just seems to be the location where I can think of one liners which can turn into songs…  it’s not the nicest location to come up with ideas and I hope to move away from that option.. but hey.. if it works…