Writing Block Corner: the muse

Hello Bookworms!
Today I am doing another writing block corner. It seems that those are actually mildly helpful for people! Today I am talking about the ever present, ever invasive: muse. This is a term which has been used by several people, and I'm not sure who first coined it for writing, but it was a Grecian mythological creature. The teller of tales. The inspiration for writing. So, I have labeled the insane inspiration which comes to me and tells me to write: my muse. I have a different muse per each book. Sometimes the muse has the same name as the book. Sometimes it really doesn't. Anyway, on to my advice!

The muse is the foundation and the downfall of a writer. It will give you ideas, show you how things will happen, and be a great friend. It will also annoy you to death while you're trying to focus on anything else. As far as I can tell, the muse goes through several stages, in no particular order:
1: Awake.
This is the peaceful muse, who will give you story ideas when you ask for them, and will leave you alone for the most part otherwise. If this is the state your muse is in: you're new to writing. Don't get used to it, it won't last.
2: Comatose.
Your muse hasn't talked to you in a while. It hasn't given you anything to work with for a couple of months. Your muse is asleep, indefinitely. This muse is rather commonly misdiagnosed as writer's block. In my experience writer's block is when all of your muses go on strike, but I'll get to multiple muses later. The comatose muse will wake up when it wakes up. Leave it alone and go find another muse to talk to.
3: Sleepy.
Maybe your muse has just woken up. Or, maybe your muse has been awake for a while, and wants to go to sleep. It will give you an idea here or there, and for the most part will leave you alone, but it won't care when it talks to you. If you are trying to talk to it, it will be testy and make little shooing motions at you. If you are busy doing something else, it will collapse on you, and spout out some random piece of information, maybe two or three, then leave you alone. This muse is trying to decide whether or not to go get coffee, or go to sleep.
4: Caffeinated.
This muse is awake, it knows it, and now you know it. It will give you story ideas on Pinterest, while you're at your desk, while you're writing, while you're taking notes on something, while you're cooking. It will take a lot for this muse to leave you alone. The muse has found its coffee. It will probably make you write a whole chapter in one day, then maybe leave you alone for a week or two, maybe even a month or two if you're lucky.
5: Highly Caffeinated.
If the previous muse had coffee, this one just got about 10 shots of espresso. This muse will not leave you alone. This muse will refuse to let you sleep. This muse will keep you up at night, wake you in the morning, and pester you through the day. The caffeinated muse could write a chapter in one day. This muse will write two in one day, then come back and pester you to do the same thing tomorrow. You cannot work, you cannot sleep, you can barely eat without the muse yanking on your shoulders, pulling you back to the desk. This muse is impossible to deal with. Find something to act as a sleeping pill for the muse, and get it to shut up.
6: Napping.
This muse state usually goes along rather well with the caffeinated muse. After your muse has made you write about a chapter or two, it will decide that it needs time to think, and so will take a nap for a few days, maybe even a week or two. This is a nice break. While it is napping, you can catch up on all the normal life things you could have been doing while your muse decided to nag your ear off about writing.
7: Stubborn.
This muse is awake, it knows it, and it doesn't like you. Everything you see makes you think: Oh! This would go great in the story! And every time you go to write your muse turns its head, shakes it deliberately, and gives you the ultimate silent treatment. This muse is temperamental, and should change in a few days to a week or so.
8: Dead.
Yup. This muse is dead. It's gone, it won't be coming back. The story has died, and there's nothing you can do about it. This state usually occurs after you have found plot hole after plot hole, and the story no longer seems worth writing. The story hasn't been worked on for at least a year or two, and there's nothing there. You have no ideas. The characters have abandoned you, and you can't change it. Goodbye muse.
9: Ghost.
The dead muse has come back. It gave you a random story idea, and suddenly there's something there. But, like every ghost, it won't stay still long enough for you to see it. This muse will hover about your shoulders, whispering random ideas into your head, and waiting till it drives you mad. Mad enough to pick up the pen and start writing it again.
10. Zombie. (Contributed by Esther.)
This dead muse comes back in the form of letting its characters invade other stories. Sometimes, believe it or not, a zombie muse can be a good thing. Most of the time it just tries to take over the planet and makes a mess of a perfectly decent storyline. Beware of the zombie muse.

This is just my experience with muses. Do any of you other writers out there have different experiences with muses? What terms have you come up with to describe your inspiration? How have you coped? I've found that there are triggers for what makes my muses change temperaments, but I can't figure out what the triggers are. Anyway, please let me know if this helped!
Scribe ergo quae vidiste vivere!