dmiraie

Yo forum,
first time poster here..

I recently underwent a very weird experience..
As an artist, it was maybe one of the strangest things that's ever happened to me.. I was hoping to get some communal feedback to help me make sense of it..

These last two weeks were, by far, the most musically productive of my life. I came up with more song ideas (maybe a couple albums worth of structures/sections/guitar riffs/lyrics/melodies/concepts) than I have been able to in the last ten years of my efforts. For two weeks straight, I found good ideas everywhere I looked -there was no escape. Doodling on the guitar, doodling on the keyboard, even composing in my head -which I'd never been able to do before. I'd wake up in the middle of the night and have melodies running through my mind. It took all my energy just to get all the ideas recorded on my phone or computer. I'd be lying if I said I didn't find it incredibly exciting! I couldn't believe it, it really felt like the chemistry in my brain had shifted.. This was the psychological pandoras box every artist dreams of! ...

And then, a few days ago, I woke up in the morning... and my mind had gone silent!

These are the only clues I have as to what allowed for my brief breakthrough:

-I had beforehand taken some months off from composing/guitar/keyboard.. This was a bit of a break for me, but nothing that I hadn't done before. I had also taken quite a long time off from from studying music theory (about 7 months).. It felt like I had somehow rediscovered my instruments and my creative ear, unencumbered by routines and patterns..

-Also, the months beforehand I had been focusing my creative efforts on entirely different mediums of art -photoshop, final cut, comedy writing, etc..

-Also, during the two weeks in question, I was feeling very physically ill! I've been sick for some years now, but these two weeks were very bad, physically, and I almost felt like I was in some kind of trance.

So, at the moment, I feel rather bewildered and bummed, as it seems my creative musical genius has crept back into hibernation.. I'm going to take another musical hiatus and focus on other mediums of art for the time being...
But I really hope this wasn't a once in a lifetime personal phenomenon!

Does anybody have any thoughts on this? Has anybody experienced something similar? Am I just a raving nutcase!?

Thanks for reading!
Dan