Daydreaming

Dreaming doesn’t seem to ever have a full explanation as to why it happens, but dreams are more complex than what we give them credit for.  

Have you ever sat in classroom, your work desk, or on a car ride, and you just begin to stare into the abyss? Why is it that our mind creates dreams while we are awake? Experts say daydreams can sometimes be a form of a mental illness due to of lack of concentration. All dreaming doesn’t have a scientific reason for occurring, which is what leads experts to just theorize why we dream.

For example, daydreaming could have many meanings. Like what you ate that day could’ve been so amazing, your imagining different ways you could have that dish again, or a significant other said something that made your stomach flutter. Wanting to re-live these small moments are what can bring you to begin daydreaming. It’s all because your self-conscience leads thoughts to be put together in your mind, creating those dreams while you are still awake.   

Constant daydreaming could also be because a person is suffering from depression, anxiety, and post-traumatic stress disorder. In a lot cases, people who suffer from attention deficit hyperactivity disorder are daydreamers. 

Daydreaming, as stated before, doesn’t have a definite meaning as to why it’s happening. Doctors say that daydreamers are people who suffer from depression, they have thoughts of living in a different reality that isn’t the one from the real world; almost as if it were an alternate reality. Those who suffer from anxiety daydream because of lack of social interaction, and they just create scenarios where they aren’t as anxious. It makes them feel calm. Daydreams are also said to happen to those who lack concentration, which also causes memory loss because of the lack of information they retained.  

Daydreaming however isn’t all bad news. Experts also say daydreaming is a good thing. How? Daydreaming is said to be all of your thoughts put together, such as goals, innermost hopes, desires and sometimes fears. Daydreaming as a whole is way for our conscious brain to develop all of our thoughts throughout the day and kind of give us a recap of things that have happened in our daily lives.

Daydreaming may not have a definite answer as to why it happens. We do know that when it occurs, we have gone numb into our thoughts and we are alone with our thoughts no matter how many people are in the room. We have left into our own realm of reality where we are just putting all of our thoughts together.