Daydreaming is the human mind’s default screensaver
Many a times we’ve heard that the human mind could possibly the best ever super computer to be built. But have we ever wondered if this super computer ever goes into a stand by or a power-saving mode?
Well researchers have now come up with a theory which talks about a screensaver or the stand-by mode that our minds switch on to when they find lil interest in continuing with what’s going around. Put in simple words that’s what we are so much familiar with as ‘Day Dreaming’
Set as default every time we indulge in activities that hardly evoke an interest in us our mind decides to put itself on the idle mode and switch on to a ‘wandering screensaver mode’ I’m sure this takes you back to probably one of your school lectures or an incident with a friend who’s simply scrapping your brains off… almost unknowingly we slip off into a mirage of our own, of something that is more appealing, involving and enjoyable by our minds.
In a paper published in the journal Science by researchers from Dartmond College, New Hampshire and Harvard Business School in Boston say that it is not the mistake of the person se but it is the simple case of the the surroundings are proceedings simply being unappealing to the mind. Therefore instead of pulling up the pupils or screaming at your inactive employee scientist are suggesting that making the lectures, surroundings and work more interesting and involving day dreaming could be avoided… after all the default settings are laid down by nature and we better take that into account.