The human mind is not able to create anything. Creativity as itself does not exist, therefore individuality doesn't either. All there is, is the illusion of creativity. We believe we are being creative, yet we are only re-shaping things from our surroundings, or things we have seen in the past. As Merriam-Webster defines it, creativity is the use of the imagination or original ideas, especially in the production of an artistic work. This means that this illusion one gets is that we are making something out of thin air, yet let us decry what our mind actually does is take ideas, and combine then into something new. A clear example that leads to this path indisputably are dreams. In our dreams, which is a moment many people claim to be the utopia of creativity, we are simply evincing images stored in our subconscious from what he have perceived, experienced or seen.

Creativity essentially implies creating something. Whether or not that is made up of original ideas is when the subject becomes murky. When such thing allegedly happens, what we call creativity factors in. We call creative to such person that uses ideas that in our perspective are completely his own. Creativity as we know it is an abstract and broad idea, but its representation isn't. People that believe in it see it in architecture, in art, in engineering, in music, and even in science and math.

For example, if the first Native American to meet a European would draw a portrait of him before the other saw him, without a doubt he would be considered a very creative person. What the other people don't know is where he got his “inspiration”. For this, the people from his community will consider him an artist with original ideas, until proven otherwise. The problem with this is, with every alleged original idea, you would have to trace the root of each and every one of them to prove it isn't; and besides the waste of time it represents, and in many cases it is impossible to recreate the life of a person to the point of finding where he could've extracted the idea.

As the New York Times states it: “The dream state typically involves vivid scenes and imagery, much of it drawing upon our daytime experiences and concerns (whether conscious or not).”(The New York Times, 2008). This is explaining how even in your pure supposed creative moment (sleeping), you are not creating anything. You are recalling images from your past, and putting them together. We only get once again the illusion of creativity because (relating to the past example), here we are the public. We do not know what the author has been through to get his “inspiration”. In the case of dreams, the subconscious is the one in charge of “projecting” such images, taking parts from our everyday lives. Faces of people going past the street, faces we don't store in our immediate memory, but are logged somewhere in our subconscious. This is the reason we get the feeling it is new to us, but it is not.

Furthermore, this article by The New York Times, also covers how blind people are affected by this. People that do not bother to do research about it might claim that they are even more creative than normal people, as they are tied to less bounds to us. That couldn't differ more from the truth. Blind people are tied to the same boundaries as we are, though the dreams differently. The only difference amongst us would be that we dream primarily with images and feelings, while blind people's dreams “report no visual imagery in their dreams, but they do experience a heightening of taste, touch and smell. They also report a higher percentage of dreams that involve mishaps related to traveling or transportation, perhaps reflecting one of their biggest daytime concerns: safely finding their way around.” (The New York Times, 2008).

In conclusion, the factual evidence stated above is sufficient to say, without a doubt, that within the boundaries of the human brain, which is what we are tied to, we simply cannot have original ideas. All of our thoughts are tied to the work of others. The pure concept of individuality does not exist as we are a community. We are social creatures by definition, and that makes us share ideas, by which our own are formed and improved.