Daydreaming, zoning out, getting lost in your thoughts — we've all done it from time to time, whether we're bored, distracted, or need a break from the real world. But have you ever had a daydream ...

After a year in quarantine, with many of our usual pastimes unavailable to us, daydreaming has become a welcome escape. But is daydreaming good for you? We live in such a task-oriented society that ...

Like a lot of people, I've always been a daydreamer. But, unlike most others, my daydreaming built up until I could lose five or six hours at a time to imaginary worlds and narratives. As a ...

Daydreaming can be dangerous. In fact, it can be fatal. That is the conclusion of a new study by Erie Insurance that being “generally distracted” or “lost in thought” – otherwise known as daydreaming ...

During quiet waking, brain activity in mice suggests the animals are daydreaming about a recent image. Having daydreams about a recently viewed image predicted how the brain would respond to the image ...

This post is in response to Is "Maladaptive Daydreaming" a Mental Disorder? By Jonathan D. Raskin, Ph.D. In a recent blog post ("Is 'Maladaptive Daydreaming' a Mental Disorder?"), Prof. Jonathan D.

Is daydreaming at work a way of wasting time or an important tool to boost creativity? New research suggests the answer is both, depending on the characteristics of the person doing the daydreaming.

One of the most important neuroscientific discoveries of our lifetime was that of the default mode network (DMN), a set of brain regions involved in our mental downtime. Like many of the most ...