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Score one for daydreamers
As a lifelong daydreamer — which is to say, as someone with a terminal attention-deficit problem — I was gratified to read this article in the Wall Street Journal. It seems that scientists have a newfound respect for the act of daydreaming. After studying brain-wave patterns, they’ve concluded that daydreamers are actually the people solving knotty problems.
“People assumed that when your mind wandered it was empty,” says cognitive neuroscientist Kalina Christoff at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, who reported the findings last month in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. As measured by brain activity, however, “mind wandering is a much more active state than we ever imagined, much more active than during reasoning with a complex problem.”
Dream on, my attention-challenged friends. You’re doing good for the world.
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