Daydreaming is good for your health - do you daydream?

[d00d]

I’m a daydream believer and I couldn’t leave her if I tried.

[gumbud]

Everely brothers - Dream, dream, dream all I wanna do is dream??

[LionQueen]

I daydream a lot about retiring. I also dream of moving away from here into an area with lovely scenery for long walks.

[spitfire]

@gumbud

sounds dubious to me thought still - my great buddhist teacher from Nepal would need to give this serious consideration - this sounds like a half way cut to Nirvana??

I would have thought you were the Gaffer Gumbud, ist

[spitfire]

The Monkees - Daydream Believer (Official Music Video)

[butterscotch]

@gumbud

I would imagine “daydreaming” is bad for business and housework and getting through junior school/high school; university and then the business world??

From the OP

@butterscotch

Which could be why scientists have previously found that daydreaming at work can make us more innovative.

[Morticia]

It reminds me of 'creative visualisation ’ … which they claim is more suited to the Western mind as our minds are far too busy to meditate successfully.

Is short … dwell upon and create in your mind something you really like. Like a secret garden …or walking along the beach and feeling the sea lapping at your toes. Whatever works for you.
Some might call it escapism but it is supposed to be rejuvenating and refreshing to a weary spirit.

[gumbud]

a good mate of mine put up scaffolding for a job. One day he was seen by a bystander to just walk right off the top of a 100 ft building - they said he must have been daydreaming - he always wanted to fly too??

[AliceWonderland]

[AliceWonderland]

@Boot

Well, it’s nice to know it’s good for your health because I’ve always been a daydreamer
and I wouldn’t want to stop.

[Artangel]

To me ‘daydreaming’ is a bit of a waste of time. I think action is better than thinking about it!

I do believe in a few minutes of switching your mind off completely and let it go blank for a few minutes… then switch it back on!

I’d say…Life is too short to stop and think about things… action is more beneficial.

[gumbud]

that’s what the buddhist believe!!

[Artangel]

Gumbud, lt’s funny you should say that… but when l have spoken to some people about my views on various things in life, they have remarked… ‘That’s what Buddhists believe in’!

Maybe, l should start kneeling and chanting for a few hours every day!!

[Alain]

I daydream a lot. I tend to daydream when I’m trying to sleep or if I wake up in the early hours. I have always daydreamed and over the years my daydreams have evolved and changed.
Its all pure fantasy

[butterscotch]

@Alain

I daydream a lot.

From the resources in the OP. Does this describe you?

People who daydream might be far more intelligence, according to new research.

For a long time, getting lost in thought has been seen as a symptom of inefficient minds: people who can’t concentrate or get distracted. But actually, it might show that your brain is simply too quick and efficient to avoid getting distracted, according to a major new study.

“People with efficient brains may have too much brain capacity to stop their minds from wandering,” said Eric Schumacher, the psychology professor who helped lead the study.

People who daydream are more intelligent

[Harbal]

@gumbud

the buddhists of course have the opposite view

Yes, the Buddhists are the humblest know-it-alls you are ever likely to come across.

[Maree]

This is reminding me of Tom in Waiting for God, he had a great daydream life

I always thought mindfulness was overrated.

I don’t want to be “in the moment” when I’m cleaning the loo, trudging up a traffic filled road to get to the station, listening to the office bore

I wanna be swimming in the sea in Perranporth, walking up the Champs-Élysées, getting an award for my prize winning novel, chatting to Sylvester Stallone

So that’s where my mind takes me!

[Harbal]

@Maree

I wanna be swimming in the sea in Perranporth, walking up the Champs-Élysées, getting an award for my prize winning novel, chatting to Sylvester Stallone

Making love under the stars.

Sorry; just daydreaming.

[Maree]

@Harbal

@Maree

I wanna be swimming in the sea in Perranporth, walking up the Champs-Élysées, getting an award for my prize winning novel, chatting to Sylvester Stallone

Making love under the stars.

Sorry; just daydreaming.

Oooh, yes, can I use that one?

[Harbal]

@Maree

Oooh, yes, can I use that one?

Of course you can.