For years we’ve been told that we can use daydreams as a way to relax – and let go of worries. It’s been used by experts to help people get through tough times… a kind of positive imaging. Rebecca Culbertson put it this way “Anytime you imagine a future event, you are daydreaming. Everyone does it.”
Ann McGee-Cooper, in her book You Don’t Have to Go Home Exhausted shows how negative thoughts can be replaced with positive ones through a little practice and a dose of daydreaming. Do you agree?
Today, I read an interesting study at
Malia F Mason at the Harvard Medical School, found that boring tasks at work will switch on the brain’s default network which is dedicated to daydreaming. Focus on an interesting topic and the daydreaming networks show very little activity. Shift to dull duties and the newly discovered daydreaming apparatus in your brain shifts into overdrive.
While Mason concluded that we frequently do things which are rather routine, she also stressed that daydreaming can be healthy for the human brain at times. I wonder if that’s why Google pays people to daydream and create for about 20% of each day.
Would your workplace benefit from more daydreaming, or would that be a sign of too many mundane routines? What do you think?
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