Mind wandering is an intriguing phenomenon—the average person spends up to 50% of their waking hours in this semi-dreamlike state. While it is notorious for undermining performance on tasks requiring ...

Mindfulness is a potent practice for stimulating and enhancing creativity. New research and dynamic mindfulness activities ...

Study Shows Your Eyes See, But Your Brain Doesn’t Process During Mental Absences In A Nutshell Consciousness may actually pause while you’re awake. The brain patterns during mind blanking resemble ...

BUDAPEST — We’ve all been there — sitting in a meeting or classroom, only to suddenly realize we haven’t heard a word in the last five minutes because our thoughts drifted elsewhere. That sinking ...

Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder can present challenges for people who have it, but it also may boost creativity. The key to the increased creativity may be ...

When your teacher told you to stop daydreaming and pay attention, she might actually have helped improve your mood as well as your school performance — if the findings of a new study on mind wandering ...

CORAL GABLES, Fla. (March 11, 2024) – The longer a person spends on a task, the more their mind starts to wander—regardless of whether the activity is difficult or easy. In fact, toward the end of the ...

Mind-wandering forms part of our daily thinking time and refers to the phenomenon of our mind drifting away from a task we are doing (e.g. reading a book) and having unrelated thoughts. Performance on ...

Researchers have found that a specific pattern of brain activity, known as 'sharp-wave ripples,' is associated with thoughts that wander from the present situation. This activity begins in the ...

Share on Pinterest Allowing our minds to wander during mechanical tasks could actually help boost our learning capacity, a recent study suggests. Image credit: Lucas Ottone/Stocksy. Daydreaming may ...