Told you so! Daydreaming makes you smart! Tra la la, hum humm di do…
In Frontal Cortex, Jonah Lehrer, (my fave science writer) discusses the importance of daydreaming and new evidence of the link between daydreaming and intelligence:
“…in the latest edition of Mind Matters, Susan Whitfield-Gabrieli and John Gabrieli of MIT outline some interesting new research on the link between resting state activity - the performance of the brain when it’s lying still in a brain scanner, doing nothing but daydreaming - and general intelligence. It turns out that cultivating an active idle mind, or teaching yourself how to daydream effectively, might actually encourage the sort of long-range neural connections that make us smart.”
Here’s another good article by Lehrer that discusses why we need to take daydreams more seriously.
(photo by Carol Texas Ranger)
