Why Daydreaming Can Improve Your Mental Health[1]
How many times do you catch your mind wandering when you’re plodding through your day’s activities? As you slip into reverie, for example, do you see yourself relaxing at your favorite beach resort? How about imagining the big event you’re attending next weekend? Are you starting to think about who you’re going to see there, and what you’ll wear? After a few seconds, you snap back to attention and focus your mind back on what you’re supposed to be doing. Perhaps you were in the middle of a meeting and realize that everyone is waiting for your answer to a question posed to the group. It’s also possible that you were trying to finish a repetitive task on your desktop, and while clicking through an endless number of cut and paste operations, you started to time travel back to the weekend before. Maybe you've just gone to the gym for an hour and spent most of the time thinking about a problem in your relationship.
當你一整天埋頭苦幹時,有多少次你會發現自己正在恍神?像是當你陷入幻想時,你是否會想像自己在最愛的海灘度假勝地上放鬆身心呢?還是想像下周末要做的大事呢?你是否會想著你會在那裡看到誰,還有你會穿什麼衣服呢?然後過了幾秒鐘,你會回過神來,把注意力放回你現在應該做的事情上。也許你正在開會,然後發現所有人都在等著你回答提出的問題。也有可能你正在處理桌上一些重複的工作,然後在無止境的點擊剪下與貼上的動作時,開始回想上個周末所發生的事。也許你剛去了健身房一個小時,然後把大部分的時間都花在思考感情上遇到的問題。