Sometimes I'm editing videos even when I'm not editing videos. My subconscious is at work.
In the average night we have 4 to 6 dreams, and rarely do we remember any of them when we wake up. Sometimes I have vague recollections of dreams about video editing. It's probably more or less a product of the fact that I'm almost always editing videos when I'm awake, and so my brain is just used to it.
But the strange part is that sometimes I have dreams about videos that I have yet to complete. The only parts of these dreams that I can really remember is me sitting at a computer looking at a screen. I'm not doing anything super-exciting, so my conscious brain says, "Don't bother storing this boring thing in your memory."
However, there have been times when I'm editing a video that I've had on my mind for a long time, when a creative moment comes and I add a certain thing into a certain place in the video where my brain tells me that I've done this before. It's like my brain already came up with some of the edit but I have sit down and work at it before I remember. Sometimes it doesn't feel like I'm creating so much as I'm remembering how to put together a video I've already watched. This only seems to happen with videos that I have on my mind for a long time. If it's on a quick deadline, my subconscious brain doesn't have the time to think about how to edit it, and I have to come up with editing ideas
Unfortunately, I haven't found this "super-cool secret subconscious brain power" to necessarily make me faster and more efficient because remembering something I've forgotten is equally as time consuming as figuring out something I don't know. But it's still really interesting, and it's either a sign that I'm living my dream...literally, or that I'm completely insane. Or both.
