The Positives and Negatives of Daydreaming

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Every wonder why the mind have a tendency to go off focus and, start to think about something else than the task at hand. You start to think about where rather be than where you are or an event that happen in the past. The state of consciousness is called daydreaming. Daydreaming is “a common variation of consciousness in which attention shifts to memories and desires, away from the immediate situation” (Zimbarbo 332). Mostly everyone part take in daydreaming every day. Going without daydreaming is abnormal. Normally thirty (30) percent of the day is spent daydreaming(Zimbarbo 332). People daydreaming can be positive and negative . There different themes and w
Daydreaming seem to naturally happen without one even noticing it. The act of daydreaming was recently studied by Malia Mason. She discovers that daydreaming cannot be avoided. In the brain there is a complex web that controls the frontal and temporal lobes. This is called the “brain default network". It is used when the brain is at rest or concentrating on what happening at time. Daydreaming is not always including i...

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