Writing as a meditative activity

I've been experimenting lately with using writing as a kind of pseudo-meditation.  It arose from a variety of things I've read, and a memory of what used to happen when I'd stay up too late writing and end up jerking awake at some point to see words that made no sense on my screen.  They were the written equivalent of hypnopompic hallucinations (is that the right word for the images that flash across the back of your eyelids as you're falling asleep?  It sounds close...).  At any rate, I figured that writing is kind of a way of channeling the storyteller inside me, so if I just quiet my mind and let the storyteller tell, maybe I learn something.

So far it's just been interesting.  No revelations about important stories lurking in a dark corner of my brain, waiting to find the light.  But it's fun, and lets me experiment a little and hopefully learn something.

Comments

[Emily]

[this is good] Great idea. I think I do that kind of stuff in my head without writing it down, but I'm sure it would become more interesting if I wrote it down! It reminded me of another exercise I did with a friend in NJ once was really good for pulling fascinating starts of stories or characters from me. We would cut horoscopes out of the newspaper and choose one from a "hat".