1. You daydream less as you get older.
young men often have "power fantasies" of what it would be like to be a superhero. But as people get older, the amount of time they spend daydreaming decreases—perhaps as the future shrinks.
2.Daydreaming makes you forget what you were doing.
The type of daydream also affects how much you forget, according to Delaney and colleagues' research.
When people working on a task were asked to daydream about their childhood home, the older subjects forgot more of the interrupted task than the younger subjects did. That means that the further back in time the daydream reaches, the bigger the forgetting effect.
3.Daydreaming turns off other parts of the brain.
when you are daydreaming, your mind naturally cycles through different modes of thinking, and during this time the analytic and empathetic parts of your brain tend to turn each other off.
4.Your brain, not your mind, controls your daydreams.
The mind and brain can be thought of as different aspects of the same thing, like the software and hardware of a computer.
"We tend of think of our minds in the driving seat and our brain activity as following," Jack said.
But in fact, the relationship goes both ways. How we daydream and think depends on the brain's structure. On the other hand, that structure is constantly changing in small ways—as we learn new things the connections between nerve cells change.
"Your brain naturally fluctuates in certain ways because of its structure, and that determines the structure of your daydreaming," Jack said.
5.Daydreaming makes you more creative.
the daydreaming mind may make an association between bits of information that the person had never considered in that particular way.
"This accounts for creativity, insights of wisdom and oftentime the solutions to problems that the person had not considered," Rothe said by email.
"A similar process, but more random, also takes place during dreaming."
Sill there?
Tell me what your daydreams are about.
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