Reflection

     After all the research and imitation and creativity, I can honestly just say actually trying something out of my boundaries, and stepping into a new world, was the most exciting and thrilling thing I have done for a class. Ever. I have told countless people how I can't even watch scary movies or do ouji boards with my friends, but I can gather up the courage to ghost hunt in my own room, and research what it means to have a ghost present inhabit your home, and to choose to live with my experience. The thing that made this project so difficult was putting together all the clues, that what I experienced during my experiment, was the last thing I thought it would be, a ghost.

     I don't know if I would try this again on my own, but I am proud to say I've done it. I can cross this off my bucket list. But if I decided to ghost hunt on my own next time, I would definitely go somewhere where I know there is a presence when I see/hear/feel it. That way, I can attempt to communicate, and actually do something once I find a ghost.

     My chosen domain is important to me specifically because I know what it is like to have unexplained occurrences, and sit and wonder what or who is trying to communicate to me. Several years ago, I was woken in the middle of the night to things moving around in my bedroom. The sound was light, but I could sense a presence and that's what startled me awake. I was young, and I was scared. I put it off in my mind, and fell back asleep, but all these years I had wondered if it was something trying to tell me something. I have always believed in the afterlife, and ghosts, but I also believed in evil. So it was something I was torn on doing, because I didn't want this to end up being a mistake later on down the road for me.

    My imitative piece is different from my original work, because for my imitative piece I toured a haunted house and received information on spirits there and where they usually inhabited frequently, whereas my original work, I sat in my room, waiting for ghosts to come to me, waiting for answers to pop out of thin air. Which is how I learned, if you want to communicate with a spirit, you go to them. They do not come to you.

     I experienced flow and other steps of the creative process while I was ghost hunting. I experienced flow when I was touring the house, and researching my videos and looking at them over and over again to see anything off or different. You could say I lost myself in my work, I got so tied up in trying to find the ghost and try to just believe in it once more, that I completely forgot this was all just for an English class assignment.

     Some original works by my classmates, really surprised me just because they were all really different from the ideas I was coming up with in my head. I really thought Patrick and Zac's creative domains were really unique seeing as, they had no way of copying other's original works. They took their time to make their own original work and to make it creative and stand out from everyone else's creative domains. They actually had to think over their's and get involved in their project.

     Creativity to me, is stepping outside your own personal comfort zone, or box, and using your brain to come up with something no one else has experienced or seen.