Have you ever met or had a friend that daydreams and thinks their someone that their not. Come on, everyone does. You might be wondering no I have not seen anyone who’s daydreaming, or no I have never daydreamed before. However, it turned out that nearly everyone, daydreams on a regular basis, studies also indicate that as many as 96% of adults daydreams every day. But have you ever wondered why do I daydream or why don’t I know that I’m thinking daydreaming? It turned out that types of daydreams 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.” Therefore this also showed that daydreams also depended on age and what you “dream” about. There are two reasons why that have happened.
Though some people may think of daydreaming as something they do unintentionally, research shows that people sometimes zone out on purpose. Research also showed that the people that have unintentionally daydream, have a different dream than someone that zone out “on purpose”.(according to findings published in March 2016 in the journal Psychological Science.) Researchers said they think that people intentionally let their minds wander during easy tasks, however, it only happens when the person knows that is an easy task or when then already know they will get a good outcome.
Moreover, people can still just wander off just because of constantly blinking and looking in one spot. They also have found that people that are doing a problem or just thanking during the moments when their minds wandered blinks more compared with the moments in which they were more focused on the task. Also ff you are stuck on a problem, letting your mind wander for a bit may help you get unstuck. this is what I call resetting the brain, it is a way of having a break from constantly thinking. It is also a way for your brain to refresh it’s thinking and review what it was doing.
In the end, daydreaming are not always bad and sometimes you need some od your own “brain space” to work things out.