While theta brainwaves are ideal for creativity most people tend to fall asleep as soon as their brain starts to produce a large quantity of theta waves. With experience, however, you will be able to control wakefulness and participate in the mental imagery and creativity exercises that become possible. One favorite creativity coaching exercise is to walk peacefully in the woods playing a tape or CD of relaxing music into which have been embedded theta sound frequencies. This often stimulates a plethora of new ideas. Theta states are more often experienced by children than adults.
Children are more relaxed and stress-free than adults.
This is one of the reasons they learn so much more quickly than we do. Children day-dream a lot. This should not be discouraged. When we are day-dreaming we are in a theta brainwave state. This is when we are at our most creative.