If you want to have increased productivity in the field of creatives, one of the things you may need to do is to grab something as an inspiration. Looking for that small spark may be difficult though, as life is filled with monotonous tasks and the world may seem bleak and shallow due to the different socio-economic problems we’re facing today.
But it turns out that our inspiration and creativity may still be obtained by simply lounging around in our homes: via daydreaming. When we daydream, our brains, instead of shutting down, switch to a new mode of thinking. This mode specializes in two processes: imagining and thinking.
A reliable network of medial lobe brain structures activates as we daydream. According to Chandra Sripada, our brains create thematic associations between adjacent thoughts, as well as spot the discontinuities in them. This is when our brain can identify interesting patterns and relationships. From there, we can get new patterns, generalizations, interpretations, and insights.
Learn more about how daydreaming works in our brains here!
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