Hi I'm back. It took a bit longer than expected.
Last weekend I was playing a Facebook game called "Word Challenge". The aim is to find as many anagrams as possible from seven letters within a set period of time.
In this game there is really no time to think, you have to "see" the words and that is why I think this has a lot to do with creativity, to connect the dots instantaneously on a subconscious level. When is the brain working the smoothest in its parallel processing beauty? A perfect set up for a little home made science experiment on my brain.
I tested some circumstances and below is what I found. The reference is a normal day after work when I was consistently getting scores between 2000-3000 points (however the game calculates them).
Wake up in the morning - hardly any scores beyond 2000
Tired in the evening - scores around 2000
Just after hard physical exercise - barely got scores of 1500
30 minutes later - scores like the reference, 2000-3000
After two beers on Saturday evening - my top scores 4000-6000
After 3 beers - dramatically falling back to around 2000-3000
After more beers - even lower scores
Nothing revolutionary here, the interesting thing being that how you can put a number on what is intuitively known. Alcohol definitely has a very powerful positive albeit short term effect.
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