Throughout our daily grind we all feel a bit struck for creativity. We long for those ethereal moments of clarity when creativity pours like a fountain of great ideas. The rest of the time we fight and work to conjure up the mere taste of a unique and unconfined idea.

Scientist have developed and are now testing a “thinking cap” that might be the key to unlocking the repressed creative genius with in all of us.

The device is a hairnet like cap that uses tiny magnetic pulses to change the way the brain functions. Wearing the cap for just a few minutes has been shown to improve artistic ability and proof-reading skills.

The theory is that the cap uses transcranial magnetic stimulation to suppress the left side of the brain, the side that is generally associated with whole ideas and logic. This temporarily allows details from the right side of the brain our creative side, to flow unfiltered into our direct consciousness allowing us to tap our inner creativity. The effects of this stimulation and the heightened state of creativity that comes with it only lasts for about an hour.

Renowned Researcher and Professor Allan Snyder believes the experiments show we all have hidden talents, we just have trouble tapping into them.

Imagine if every office had a few thinking caps lying around even the left-brain dominant analytical types would be thinking out of the box. Of course we don’t have thinking caps yet but this article reminds us that we need to on occasion look past logic in the hopes of basking in the inner creativity that lives within all of us. 

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