Hilde Østby

Research shows that some people have experienced huge bursts of creativity following a blow to the head or trauma, be it mental or physical, because it has been shown to destabilize the levels of dopamine in the brain. Dopamine is the brain’s reward system and, when it comes to creative expression, it can make your head buzz with ideas. More specifically, I had read that you can become more creative from an injury to the temporal lobe.

Mania and depression can come in complicated mixtures,

Alice Weaver Flaherty

She believes that the temporal lobe is the key to creativity; it is here that both hypergraphia and writer’s block originate.

The first law of memory is that we remember everything that stands out or evokes a strong emotion

second law applies—we bundle normal and mundane events, like brushing our teeth, into so-called collective memories

Some people help us change the way we think, offering us vivid and colorful images and dreams,

simply because their inner world is so wild and urgent that it needs to be shared

Paul Gottlieb Nipkow

All this may seem momentous today, but it wasn’t a particularly exciting broadcast. The images consisted of white figures on a black background, and a high contrast was required for them to be