I agree. Constructive daydreaming can help us to figure out where we want to go, but not before we reflect upon where we are today. We run into problems when we cannot practice being satusfied with how far we’ve already come.

David

Alex, I agree – it is a quote I love and one which I have been wanting to use in an article for sometime.

Dark Sociologist, I’m glad you found your way to my site . I’m the same with transport – I have missed many a stop because of daydreaming. When I was younger I actually lived at the end of a bus route, so I would always drift off into my own world and the bus driver would have to yell at me to get off because the service had finished.

Ellesse (Goal Setting College), very interesting comment. I’ve actually got something coming up about left and right thinking.

It’s rather sad that most people around us (eg, bosses) don’t see Daydreaming as an attribute. When a left-right-brainer test revealed that I am a right-brainer (of which daydreaming is a characteristic), my boss took to me with a kinda “amused expression”. In the practical corporate world, being logical, analytical is so much more treasured than daydreaming… even though, the latter’s the reason why we’re having so many wonderful inventions, creations today and the crux to creativity in the office. Ironical.

Cheers,
Ellesse

I fully agree with your observations and conclusions about day dreaming. They usually occur to me when I have some time to take my mind off of immediate matters and begin to think about other concerns in my life.

The peaceful atmosphere allows me to relax and work out things that have been bothering me or things that really needed some thinking about. The only problem is that I usually get this time when I’m traveling, which means I sometimes miss my exit or stop and have to backtrack.

Don’t worry about the negative perceptions of daydreaming. It may make you seem like you aren’t doing anything, but it also makes it that better when you seemingly pull out an amazing thought out of thin air.