Many creative people is or was mentally challenged, and needed something stimulating to manage to focusing on their work, passion, or whatever it was. We are all different, but I know from my time creating a few business ideas, we started out without any stimulation of alcohol, but after an hour gave out one drink, 30 min later another, and it released more frely ideas and thoughts we could work on later. After 3. And 4. The whole thing went down the drain ????, but we got something to continue working with.
For those who create poetry, song lyrics, writers using alcohol and other stimulants, Im sure it working for a while before it becomes the normal, and they can’t work without stimulation anymore.
Have to remember so many different people and so many different personalities.
Shy people loosing up a little bit with one or two glasses for an instance and manage to say what they had been thinking of for a long time, and not necessarily stimulating their creativity but their ability to express themselves better.