I'm another of the constant daydreamers. I'm always getting lost in my own head and am very absentminded. People have told me I am very much the Absentminded Professor type.
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I daydream when I am walking. I actually catch myself almost acting out my daydreams constantly. Some people must think I am crazy when I start talking nonsense to myself. I also do J.D. daydreams where I stare into space and then come back with a nonsensical comment about my dream.
That sounds very Pinky-ish to me.
I don't know, Brain, but I did discover that Zort backwards is Troz. TROZ!.
i meant, i am a daydreamer, but i am not currently daydreaming.
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I think daydreaming is very healthy. I daydream all the time.
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To quote Ignatius from The Silver Chalice, "Why does everyone always belittle dreamers? What do we get from men of action? War and taxes."
I wouldn't call what I do "daydreaming". My understanding is that daydreaming would involve imagining situations, stories and fantasies. I think about about stuff. Lots and lots of stuff.
Sometimes I think about work, sometimes about a movie I've seen, a book I've read, or some bits of trivia I acquired somehow. Sometimes I just space out with nothing in mind and "awake" a while later in a field, stark naked and covered in phosphorescent Jelly-O. Well, maybe not.
Sometimes I think about work, sometimes about a movie I've seen, a book I've read, or some bits of trivia I acquired somehow. Sometimes I just space out with nothing in mind and "awake" a while later in a field, stark naked and covered in phosphorescent Jelly-O. Well, maybe not.
i meant, i am a daydreamer, but i am not currently daydreaming.
captcalhoun wants an option between "less than 10 times a day" and "I'm daydreaming now". So for someone who does daydream a lot, but not while they're posting on the BBS
I daydream so much that I genuinely wonder what other people who don't daydream are doing with all that downtime in their heads.
As to what I daydream about - it varies. Sometimes I daydream about fandoms. Sometimes I make up new stories. Sometimes I daydream about teh sex. A lot of the time I just amuse myself with imagining things about the things and people around me. Yesterday I spent my hour's walk home imagining Muppet versions of modernist novels.
Is there a distinction between 'daydreaming' and constant stream of consciousness? I mean, everybody's constantly thinking, right? So what do you think about that's not daydreaming?
As to what I daydream about - it varies. Sometimes I daydream about fandoms. Sometimes I make up new stories. Sometimes I daydream about teh sex. A lot of the time I just amuse myself with imagining things about the things and people around me. Yesterday I spent my hour's walk home imagining Muppet versions of modernist novels.
Is there a distinction between 'daydreaming' and constant stream of consciousness? I mean, everybody's constantly thinking, right? So what do you think about that's not daydreaming?
I wish I could use writing as an excuse - some of the times I'm plotting stories to be written, but most of the time I'm imagining me in various other stories - at the moment The A-Team, because I saw that yesterday and I'm all fangirl over Sharlto Copley
^^ That's actually how a lot of my stories get started. 
That's actually a very good question. I was actually under the impression that we are having a little miscommunication, because many of the things people mentioned I don't consider them "daydreaming", just "thinking". Maybe I am just working from a slightly different definition.
I wouldn't be so sure about it.
More seriously, one of the best thing about practicing sports is that I get a bit of silence in my mind: you lose yourself in the movements, and your mind empties itself (kinda like meditation, but it's also good for your abs
). Personally, I find it incredibly refreshing for my brain, even more than sleeping.
Yours is the definition that I was working to - that day dreaming is flights of fancy - creating movies in your mind, if you will. If it's about real life then that's thinking rather than dreaming.
Well, you can daydream about real life too, but there has to be an element of fiction about it (imagining the office being empty, what having your boss's job would be like)
Stream of consciousness is the flow of thoughts in the conscious mind.
I would suggest that daydreaming involves the unconscious mind to a greater degree (much like true night dreaming involves the unconscious mind to an even greater degree). The associations are often looser, or more tangential and there's often a vivid visualisation/imagery component that's different to the more straightforward stream of consciousness.
(thinking, by contrast, I would consider as different to all the above, being a more focused activity with a clearer directionality/executive role)
Being a writer, artist et cetera, I am in a constant state of daydream. I hate it when responsibilities force me to concentrate on something mundane.
You should have made this a public poll, I want to see who's as in the clouds as I am
Count me in as another habitual head in the clouds type. Today, I found myself daydreaming in class while also actively participating. The professor stopped me in the hall after class and said that I had made some really insightful remarks. I guess daydreaming isn't detrimental to my performance in the real world.
