1. Wear all your jewelry at once (even earrings).

2. Put on all of your clothing backwards. Then inside out. Then inside out and backwards.

 
3. Watch an obscure foreign film without subtitles, and attempt to understand the story in every way possible (i.e. cinematic cues, tone of voice, soundtrack, etc.). 

 
4. Watch a film in a language you understand with the volume turned down, and pay attention to only one aspect of storytelling (colour symbolism, angle, facial expression, etc.) See what you are able to understand.

 
5. Take an object you are used to seeing in a single place or context, and move it elsewhere. Turn it upside down, hold it up to light if in darkness, turn off the lights and feel its textures, temperature, use every sense you have to observe it.

 
6. Prepare a meal as a caveman would. I.e. Make your own knife, slice a fruit you picked off of a tree, and eat it with your bare hands.

 
7. Consider that the fruit was created out of millions of years of evolution. Imagine what this fruit might have tasted like a million years ago. Did it evolve the way elephants did?

 
8. Wake up one morning and immediately do something uncharacteristic (go out if you stay in, stay in if you go out, pick up a book, draw on the walls, etc.). Break the habits you have, be unpredictably human and act on impulses which will lead you to unfamiliar places.

 
9. Take a medium for creation (such as paint, glue, rhinestones, thread, buttons etc.) and use it for an unusual purpose, utilizing simply what you have around you.

 
10. If you are an artist, abandon your typical creative materials in favour of nontraditional ones for a day. Ideally, use materials you find. Do not purchase anything. 

 
11. Take a three dimensional object, place it on a piece of paper, and draw around it as though it is flat.

 
12. Find a piece of paper with an image, like a small drawing, a design, a squiggly line etc. and, with pen in hand, continue the image until it is something totally new.
 

13. Do something you have been taught is wrong, especially when you feel it is right.
 

14. Close your eyes and imagine you are taking a path anywhere, to anything. Rules of reality do not apply. Impossible things are encouraged. Will you teleport to Timbuktu, sprout wings and fly through rainforests? Travel through time, talk to a Russian Czar, stop time to pull his head off his body and then put it back on so he never notices? Would you create the ability to stretch the scenery with your hands? Shape it like clay? The possibilities are endless.
 

15. Wherever you may find yourself, attempt to represent your thoughts/emotions abstractly using whatever is around you.
 

16. Consider your favourite creations (songs, paintings, drawings, novels etc.) and then consider their creators. For those you know little about, research their lives, inclinations, find interviews if possible. Discover the brilliant minds behind works of intrigue, and see if you have any similarities to these people. 

17.  Build a Rube Goldberg machine for fun. 
 

18. Consider the history of everything. Especially inanimate objects. Think about the lives of things, places things have been, what things have seen and heard and cannot tell.
 

19. Look at your hands, and think about the many things they have done throughout your life.

20. Learn more about a thing that is always there, but that you never think about.
 

21. Think of a random colour, and focus on everything you can see in your field of vision in that hue. This type of perceptual distinction can be played around with endlessly! Look at your environment and think about what creates it. Similar ideas: What around me is natural, and what is artificial? Symmetrical vs. Asymmetrical, Detailed vs. Complex, etc.
 

22. When you are bored and unable to reorient yourself into a situation of intrigue, (for example in a classroom, a cubicle, a phony social function) think about the complexity of each separate object or being around you. 

23. RIP SOMETHING APART
 

24. Imagine that a nebula is actually a giant eye in space. Now, imagine yourself to be a nebula, and close your eyes. Picture everything you see.
 

25. Imagine that a nebula is actually a giant eye in space. Now, imagine yourself to be a nebula, and close your eyes. Picture everything you see.

26. Take a small part of your existence and pretend your mind has created it as adelusion. For example, what if soap was a figment of your imagination? Think about the ways in which your existence would be altered if this were true, taking into account all you can remember about such a mediocre detail. Now, instead of soap, substitute something grander (your lover, a significant experience, the idea of honesty/loyalty/purity etc.)

27. Watch a film or television show, listen to a song, play a game or read a book from your childhood. Connect to what created your feelings about these things. Remember how it felt to experience this and merge the past and present.

28. Collect things which you respond to with extreme negativity, and put them in a single context (shrine to hatred, photo album of despair etc.) and find a pattern. You may do anything you like with what you find, and explore it in any organic way.

29. Try to unravel people. Consider someone flawed as simply being tangled up in trauma, and feel what they have felt. Undo their pain, get to the core of who they are by knowing each negative thing they do has a reason. Make up a story for why they do something you do not like, and try to understand them before dismissing them. 

30. CUT SOMETHING UP.