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Daydreaming creates a lot of activity in areas of the brain responsible for autobiographical memory, predicting others’ thoughts and feelings and crafting a coherent sense of self. It plays a key role in how we understand ourselves and each other.
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When dysphoric mind-wandering becomes chronic or we focus too much on unsolvable problems or past events, it can lead people into unhappiness or destructive and compulsive behaviors.
Also, mind-wandering in excess can be harmful to our psychological health and can get in t...
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It drives us to engage in activities that we find more meaningful than those at hand. Without it, we’d be perpetually excited by everything.
Research shows that people who are bored think more creatively than those who aren’t.
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When we lose focus on the outside world and drift inward, the brain is putting ideas and events into perspective.
When we mind-wander, rather than experiencing, organizing, and understanding things based on how they come to us from the outside world, we do it from within our own...
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Boredom often leads to daydreaming, which is involved in skills like creativity and projecting into the future. But we tend to suppress it.
Letting one’s mind wander really is the key to creativity and productivity, so it’s destructive to fill all the cracks in our day with...
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When we’re consciously doing things we’re using the “executive attention network, ” the parts of the brain that control and inhibit our attention. The attention network makes it possible for us to relate directly to the world presently around us.
By contrast, when our minds wander...
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