The Human Mind . . .

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Has your mind ever ceased to function as a creative entity, with nothing there any more, no ideas, nothing, so that all you could do was sit and stare at a wall?

If so, and you’re now over it, what did you do to get it moving again?

hello MarchHare,
Yes I have had this experience, that you describe. I am not uncomfortable with this state of presentation, But, rarely do i let myself be this way in any company(not even with my family). That is i only allow myself this sort of space when i know i have the freedom of time and place. It is one of my routines. I seem to need it. I've had this experience all my life. Duration of , depends on how much is going on in my life. As you can see I'm not over it.I will myself out of stillness/nothingness - not harshly nor self deprecatingly, but as in "draw self back into body and move" . I just get up and move even if mind is still a void.

But perhaps i have missed your meaning? R u saying you can't produce creative work ?

My mind does not,

When I am sitting and staring out, and I have the sensation of "nothing there any more, no ideas, nothing" I do not feel I have lost my function/s- just hibernating. And no, I'm not having a form of epilepsy. Just in neutral.
To get back to having a creative output I focus back to the task/project and work away.

Sorry if i have misconstrued your questions.

The mind is an illusion.

- as is life itself.

But, within the illusion we can develop skills at jumping the story from one track to another; we can develop the ability to move into critical mode, and choose subsequent actions to lift the chance of longed-for outcomes. Can't we? I mean, illusion is an advantage in that sort of game: there is no shared reality anyway, we're all manipulating shadow puppets, but even within that a concrete gain ought to be hard to overlook.

Or we can sit helpless, staring at walls. That too is a choice.

I agree with above comments. To me it seems that after accepting thes premises all that is left is energy. And what a fascinating clay that is!

And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.

Friedrich Nietzsche