What is random word stimulation?
Random word stimulation, as its name implies, invokes words at random. You can find them by picking a book, opening it to a random page, closing your eyes and pointing to a spot on the page. The word your finger rests upon is your random stimulus. You can also use magazines, signs or anything in your environment as a random word stimulus. Individual words will always trigger their associated memories; the reaction is automatic and inevitable. Once you define a subject to generate new ideas about, exposure to the stimulus of random words will incite your mind to associate subject and word together. Usually there is no obvious logical connection but the force that drives the mind to associate thoughts is so strong that the search is performed anyway, and in the subsequent chaos new ideas begin to emerge. Your subconscious mind is a powerful ally with a vast storehouse of information to draw from, and together with your imagination, can be utilized in a deliberate manner to achieve outsta