Daydream Nation

Here’s some good news for every parent who worries that their child daydreams too much - and encouragement for all of us who find our minds wandering aimlessly when we should be paying attention.

Research shows that a healthy dose of daydreaming is good for our minds, and our creative process. The man who invented sticky-notes, for example, came up with the idea while daydreaming during a sermon in church.

Jonah Lehrer wrote about him and the new research into daydreams for the "Ideas" section of The Boston Globe. He's editor-at-large at Seed Magazine and author of Proust Was a Neuroscientist, and he frequently joins Word of Mouth to talk about our brains.

Read Jonah's article about the new research into daydreams

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