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hopefulmoon5845 September 27th

What is that one painting or drawing that you draw involuntarily when you are bored?



For me, when I get bored in my classes, I draw palm trees🌴. I don't know why or how but usually my pencil starts moving on its own. Each time the rest of background is different but these trees are constants 🤷🏻‍♀️. What is it for you?

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Sunisshiningandsoareyou September 27th

@hopefulmoon5845

I feel so seen with this post lol, thanks for making it. Thought I was the only one drawing stuff "involuntarily" hehe and sooo close, I draw leaves usually!🍃

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hopefulmoon5845 OP September 28th

It's good to know that you liked it. I'm sure there must be some psychological fact behind these unintentional drawings. If there is one we are closely related then. 🤭

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Arie3 September 28th

@hopefulmoon5845 I draw random faces, just sketching out the human face. Or i draw flowers or eyes lol

BeeCake September 30th

@hopefulmoon5845 i draw rascal cats on top of the page, or anywhere with a blank space lol

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hopefulmoon5845 OP September 30th

Cats!!! Sounds adorable 😻

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slowdecline48 October 19th

Ohh, to have such energy & involuntary creativeness... 😔

stormieandpaws October 26th

@hopefulmoon5845

we do not really draw like anything but designs  when we do that not sure why even it like we do not even start our hand moving it just happens. when lot younger and in high-school  we use to like draw on our jeans in school the like patterns of things no other know what they was even. at times we did not either. wish we had a few pairs of the jeans we did this on to show you all. but my mom and dad would get very very upset at us and throw the jeans out.

due to i am fully disable  now i not work at all. but when i at a like meeting with anything. we do it on paper or in a notebook  when bored or just not want to listen. when we do this we seem to get lost in would we drawing so not pay attention  to what going on around us.

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hopefulmoon5845 OP October 26th

Drawing designs sounds fun!

So there are so many people with this habit, I wonder what's the psychology behind it.

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stormieandpaws October 26th

@hopefulmoon5845

i looked what you posted up and got a different  name for it this is what i got thought you might like (Automatism refers to creating art without conscious thought, accessing material from the unconscious mind as part of the creative process

the psych  behind it is that when we do the drawings without thinking or planning that it from part of the subconscious  mind.  it stated that one can learn a lot about the person by just looking at the drawing they do when not really thinking about it at all

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hopefulmoon5845 OP October 26th

Human psychology and brain are such complex yet simple things. Wonderful!

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stormieandpaws October 27th

@hopefulmoon5845

due to some of the  stuff going on with me. we had to go to a brain spine specialist. he told me there a lot they still do not know about the brain and how it works. after like 7 MRIs they ruled out things. then told me that  they think and best as they can tell. that they see no scaring in my brain. so what they said was chronic  traumatic  brain injury.  they also told me that my not being able to use my hands together  to do things is also within the brain, but they with what they have now medically can not see were they think it is. he also told me that the parts of  the brain that connected each part together  they still know very little about too. he was very nice and explained everything in away we could understand. but in the end he said that there just so much they not yet know about the brain. but they trying to find out more too. so maybe in few years they be able to see more of what my brain doing and help me more and many others too

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