#daydreaming — Public Fediverse posts

Last week's post on how your body influences your mind wandering - daydreaming that is. Fascinating!

https://leadingbrainsreview.substack.com/p/brain-snack-how-your-body-influences?r=59dsl

#brain #mindwandering #DMN #neuroscience #daydreaming

Last week's post on how your body influences your mind wandering - daydreaming that is. Fascinating!

https://leadingbrainsreview.substack.com/p/brain-snack-how-your-body-influences?r=59dsl

#brain #mindwandering #DMN #neuroscience #daydreaming

Last week's post on how your body influences your mind wandering - daydreaming that is. Fascinating!

https://leadingbrainsreview.substack.com/p/brain-snack-how-your-body-influences?r=59dsl

#brain #mindwandering #DMN #neuroscience #daydreaming

Last week's post on how your body influences your mind wandering - daydreaming that is. Fascinating!

https://leadingbrainsreview.substack.com/p/brain-snack-how-your-body-influences?r=59dsl

#brain #mindwandering #DMN #neuroscience #daydreaming

Last week's post on how your body influences your mind wandering - daydreaming that is. Fascinating!

https://leadingbrainsreview.substack.com/p/brain-snack-how-your-body-influences?r=59dsl

#brain #mindwandering #DMN #neuroscience #daydreaming

BASIC ideas:

- BASIC written in Arduino assembly again
- BASIC written in Common Lisp
- yet another 6502 BASIC

Common Lisp (SBCL) ideas:

- a line editor in Common Lisp
- a static site generator the way i actually like to do it... in Common Lisp

special mention:

- try and remove the C primitives from emacs again
- look into guilemacs again

#ideas #showerthoughts #daydreaming #commonlisp #basic #6502 #arduino #emacs #lisp #elisp #commonlisp #projects #passionprojects #hobbies #guile

"Sometimes, the most valuable work you might do is the quiet work of thinking nothing at all." - Futurist Jim Carroll

Let's get right to the point.
It's OK to daydream.
It's OK to get lost in your thoughts.
It's OK to be absent-minded.
It's OK to lose your focus.
It's OK to stare blankly out the window.
It's OK to let your mind wander.
It's OK to have a thought pop into your head unrelated to what you're doing.
It's OK to take a mental detour.
It's OK to let your thoughts drift.
It's OK to not have an immediate, practical goal for your thinking.
It's OK to be a little disorganized in your thoughts.
It's OK to mull things over slowly.
It's OK to take an unguided mental walk.
It's OK to space out.
It's OK to ponder an unlikely scenario.
It's OK to doodle without a plan.
It's OK to follow a train of thought to an unexpected destination.
It's OK to let your mind jump from one idea to the next.
It's OK to not check things off a list right now.
It's OK to mentally play with concepts.
It's OK to get stuck in your head.
It's OK to revisit old memories for inspiration.
It's OK to have an 'aha!' moment while doing nothing.
It's OK to trust your intuition over logic for a bit.
It's OK to embrace mental downtime.
It's OK!

Here's why: Have you ever been told to stop staring out the window and get back to work? It turns out that letting your mind wander might actually be one of the smartest things you can do. Scientists have discovered that daydreaming isn't laziness—it's your brain doing some of its most important creative work.

And as someone who has helped organizations around the world with concepts related to innovation, it's a story I often share from the stage.

Consider this: Your brain operates in two different modes: focused thinking and diffuse - or unfocused - thinking.Focused thinking is what happens when you're concentrating hard on a math problem or writing an essay. It's great for learning new information and working through things step-by-step. But here's the catch: you can't be creative while you're hyper-focused.

That's where daydreaming, drifting, imaging comes in - aka diffuse thinking - comes in. When you let your mind wander, space out, or daydream, your brain switches into a different mode that makes unexpected connections between ideas. This is when you have those "aha!" moments where a solution suddenly pops into your head.

So the next time someone tells you to stop daydreaming, you can tell them you're actually problem-solving.

You are doing important work!

You are being creative!

Futurist Jim Carroll zones out frequently.

**#Daydreaming** **#Creativity** **#Thinking** **#Mindwandering** **#Innovation** **#Rest** **#Reflection** **#Breakthrough** **#Intuition** **#Downtime**

Original post: https://jimcarroll.com/2025/10/decoding-tomorrow-daily-inspiration-sometimes-the-most-valuable-work-you-might-do-is-the-quiet-work-of-thinking-nothing-at-all/

"Sometimes, the most valuable work you might do is the quiet work of thinking nothing at all." - Futurist Jim Carroll

Let's get right to the point.
It's OK to daydream.
It's OK to get lost in your thoughts.
It's OK to be absent-minded.
It's OK to lose your focus.
It's OK to stare blankly out the window.
It's OK to let your mind wander.
It's OK to have a thought pop into your head unrelated to what you're doing.
It's OK to take a mental detour.
It's OK to let your thoughts drift.
It's OK to not have an immediate, practical goal for your thinking.
It's OK to be a little disorganized in your thoughts.
It's OK to mull things over slowly.
It's OK to take an unguided mental walk.
It's OK to space out.
It's OK to ponder an unlikely scenario.
It's OK to doodle without a plan.
It's OK to follow a train of thought to an unexpected destination.
It's OK to let your mind jump from one idea to the next.
It's OK to not check things off a list right now.
It's OK to mentally play with concepts.
It's OK to get stuck in your head.
It's OK to revisit old memories for inspiration.
It's OK to have an 'aha!' moment while doing nothing.
It's OK to trust your intuition over logic for a bit.
It's OK to embrace mental downtime.
It's OK!

Here's why: Have you ever been told to stop staring out the window and get back to work? It turns out that letting your mind wander might actually be one of the smartest things you can do. Scientists have discovered that daydreaming isn't laziness—it's your brain doing some of its most important creative work.

And as someone who has helped organizations around the world with concepts related to innovation, it's a story I often share from the stage.

Consider this: Your brain operates in two different modes: focused thinking and diffuse - or unfocused - thinking.Focused thinking is what happens when you're concentrating hard on a math problem or writing an essay. It's great for learning new information and working through things step-by-step. But here's the catch: you can't be creative while you're hyper-focused.

That's where daydreaming, drifting, imaging comes in - aka diffuse thinking - comes in. When you let your mind wander, space out, or daydream, your brain switches into a different mode that makes unexpected connections between ideas. This is when you have those "aha!" moments where a solution suddenly pops into your head.

So the next time someone tells you to stop daydreaming, you can tell them you're actually problem-solving.

You are doing important work!

You are being creative!

Futurist Jim Carroll zones out frequently.

**#Daydreaming** **#Creativity** **#Thinking** **#Mindwandering** **#Innovation** **#Rest** **#Reflection** **#Breakthrough** **#Intuition** **#Downtime**

Original post: https://jimcarroll.com/2025/10/decoding-tomorrow-daily-inspiration-sometimes-the-most-valuable-work-you-might-do-is-the-quiet-work-of-thinking-nothing-at-all/

"Sometimes, the most valuable work you might do is the quiet work of thinking nothing at all." - Futurist Jim Carroll

Let's get right to the point.
It's OK to daydream.
It's OK to get lost in your thoughts.
It's OK to be absent-minded.
It's OK to lose your focus.
It's OK to stare blankly out the window.
It's OK to let your mind wander.
It's OK to have a thought pop into your head unrelated to what you're doing.
It's OK to take a mental detour.
It's OK to let your thoughts drift.
It's OK to not have an immediate, practical goal for your thinking.
It's OK to be a little disorganized in your thoughts.
It's OK to mull things over slowly.
It's OK to take an unguided mental walk.
It's OK to space out.
It's OK to ponder an unlikely scenario.
It's OK to doodle without a plan.
It's OK to follow a train of thought to an unexpected destination.
It's OK to let your mind jump from one idea to the next.
It's OK to not check things off a list right now.
It's OK to mentally play with concepts.
It's OK to get stuck in your head.
It's OK to revisit old memories for inspiration.
It's OK to have an 'aha!' moment while doing nothing.
It's OK to trust your intuition over logic for a bit.
It's OK to embrace mental downtime.
It's OK!

Here's why: Have you ever been told to stop staring out the window and get back to work? It turns out that letting your mind wander might actually be one of the smartest things you can do. Scientists have discovered that daydreaming isn't laziness—it's your brain doing some of its most important creative work.

And as someone who has helped organizations around the world with concepts related to innovation, it's a story I often share from the stage.

Consider this: Your brain operates in two different modes: focused thinking and diffuse - or unfocused - thinking.Focused thinking is what happens when you're concentrating hard on a math problem or writing an essay. It's great for learning new information and working through things step-by-step. But here's the catch: you can't be creative while you're hyper-focused.

That's where daydreaming, drifting, imaging comes in - aka diffuse thinking - comes in. When you let your mind wander, space out, or daydream, your brain switches into a different mode that makes unexpected connections between ideas. This is when you have those "aha!" moments where a solution suddenly pops into your head.

So the next time someone tells you to stop daydreaming, you can tell them you're actually problem-solving.

You are doing important work!

You are being creative!

Futurist Jim Carroll zones out frequently.

**#Daydreaming** **#Creativity** **#Thinking** **#Mindwandering** **#Innovation** **#Rest** **#Reflection** **#Breakthrough** **#Intuition** **#Downtime**

Original post: https://jimcarroll.com/2025/10/decoding-tomorrow-daily-inspiration-sometimes-the-most-valuable-work-you-might-do-is-the-quiet-work-of-thinking-nothing-at-all/

"Sometimes, the most valuable work you might do is the quiet work of thinking nothing at all." - Futurist Jim Carroll

Let's get right to the point.
It's OK to daydream.
It's OK to get lost in your thoughts.
It's OK to be absent-minded.
It's OK to lose your focus.
It's OK to stare blankly out the window.
It's OK to let your mind wander.
It's OK to have a thought pop into your head unrelated to what you're doing.
It's OK to take a mental detour.
It's OK to let your thoughts drift.
It's OK to not have an immediate, practical goal for your thinking.
It's OK to be a little disorganized in your thoughts.
It's OK to mull things over slowly.
It's OK to take an unguided mental walk.
It's OK to space out.
It's OK to ponder an unlikely scenario.
It's OK to doodle without a plan.
It's OK to follow a train of thought to an unexpected destination.
It's OK to let your mind jump from one idea to the next.
It's OK to not check things off a list right now.
It's OK to mentally play with concepts.
It's OK to get stuck in your head.
It's OK to revisit old memories for inspiration.
It's OK to have an 'aha!' moment while doing nothing.
It's OK to trust your intuition over logic for a bit.
It's OK to embrace mental downtime.
It's OK!

Here's why: Have you ever been told to stop staring out the window and get back to work? It turns out that letting your mind wander might actually be one of the smartest things you can do. Scientists have discovered that daydreaming isn't laziness—it's your brain doing some of its most important creative work.

And as someone who has helped organizations around the world with concepts related to innovation, it's a story I often share from the stage.

Consider this: Your brain operates in two different modes: focused thinking and diffuse - or unfocused - thinking.Focused thinking is what happens when you're concentrating hard on a math problem or writing an essay. It's great for learning new information and working through things step-by-step. But here's the catch: you can't be creative while you're hyper-focused.

That's where daydreaming, drifting, imaging comes in - aka diffuse thinking - comes in. When you let your mind wander, space out, or daydream, your brain switches into a different mode that makes unexpected connections between ideas. This is when you have those "aha!" moments where a solution suddenly pops into your head.

So the next time someone tells you to stop daydreaming, you can tell them you're actually problem-solving.

You are doing important work!

You are being creative!

Futurist Jim Carroll zones out frequently.

**#Daydreaming** **#Creativity** **#Thinking** **#Mindwandering** **#Innovation** **#Rest** **#Reflection** **#Breakthrough** **#Intuition** **#Downtime**

Original post: https://jimcarroll.com/2025/10/decoding-tomorrow-daily-inspiration-sometimes-the-most-valuable-work-you-might-do-is-the-quiet-work-of-thinking-nothing-at-all/

"Sometimes, the most valuable work you might do is the quiet work of thinking nothing at all." - Futurist Jim Carroll

Let's get right to the point.
It's OK to daydream.
It's OK to get lost in your thoughts.
It's OK to be absent-minded.
It's OK to lose your focus.
It's OK to stare blankly out the window.
It's OK to let your mind wander.
It's OK to have a thought pop into your head unrelated to what you're doing.
It's OK to take a mental detour.
It's OK to let your thoughts drift.
It's OK to not have an immediate, practical goal for your thinking.
It's OK to be a little disorganized in your thoughts.
It's OK to mull things over slowly.
It's OK to take an unguided mental walk.
It's OK to space out.
It's OK to ponder an unlikely scenario.
It's OK to doodle without a plan.
It's OK to follow a train of thought to an unexpected destination.
It's OK to let your mind jump from one idea to the next.
It's OK to not check things off a list right now.
It's OK to mentally play with concepts.
It's OK to get stuck in your head.
It's OK to revisit old memories for inspiration.
It's OK to have an 'aha!' moment while doing nothing.
It's OK to trust your intuition over logic for a bit.
It's OK to embrace mental downtime.
It's OK!

Here's why: Have you ever been told to stop staring out the window and get back to work? It turns out that letting your mind wander might actually be one of the smartest things you can do. Scientists have discovered that daydreaming isn't laziness—it's your brain doing some of its most important creative work.

And as someone who has helped organizations around the world with concepts related to innovation, it's a story I often share from the stage.

Consider this: Your brain operates in two different modes: focused thinking and diffuse - or unfocused - thinking.Focused thinking is what happens when you're concentrating hard on a math problem or writing an essay. It's great for learning new information and working through things step-by-step. But here's the catch: you can't be creative while you're hyper-focused.

That's where daydreaming, drifting, imaging comes in - aka diffuse thinking - comes in. When you let your mind wander, space out, or daydream, your brain switches into a different mode that makes unexpected connections between ideas. This is when you have those "aha!" moments where a solution suddenly pops into your head.

So the next time someone tells you to stop daydreaming, you can tell them you're actually problem-solving.

You are doing important work!

You are being creative!

Futurist Jim Carroll zones out frequently.

**#Daydreaming** **#Creativity** **#Thinking** **#Mindwandering** **#Innovation** **#Rest** **#Reflection** **#Breakthrough** **#Intuition** **#Downtime**

Original post: https://jimcarroll.com/2025/10/decoding-tomorrow-daily-inspiration-sometimes-the-most-valuable-work-you-might-do-is-the-quiet-work-of-thinking-nothing-at-all/

A quotation from Victor Hugo

Thought is the work of the intellect, reverie is its self-indulgence. To substitute day-dreaming for thought is to confuse a poison with a source of nourishment.
 
[La pensée est le labeur de l’intelligence, la rêverie en est la volupté. Remplacer la pensée par la rêverie, c’est confondre un poison avec une nourriture.]

Victor Hugo (1802-1885) French writer
Les Misérables, Part 4 “St. Denis,” Book 2 “Eponine,” ch. 1 (4.2.1) (1862) [tr. Denny (1976)]

Sourcing, notes, other translations: wist.info/hugo-victor/1990/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #victorhugo #lesmiserables #lesmiz #contemplation #daydreaming #intellect #mediation #mind #reverie #thinking #thought

👾🤖 Oh, the tragedy! Large language models can't daydream like us mere mortals—alas, they remain as stiff as your Uncle Bob at a yoga class. While #Gwern waxes poetic about 'missing capabilities,' one can't help but think: perhaps these #AI systems are just too busy counting ones and zeros to appreciate the finer points of a good nap. 🌈💤
https://gwern.net/ai-daydreaming #Daydreaming #LanguageModels #Humor #TechTragedy #HackerNews #ngated

Take the #philosophy and practice of #yoga — a science of the inner universe of human beings dating back to prehistoric times. Yoga consists of #morally impeccable behavior and hard work on one's own #mind in order to achieve self-control and #freedom. This is the exact opposite of dreaming. It is our Western attempt to find #happiness and fulfillment in transitory things, which is self-deception, #daydreaming.

A volte mi perdo nei miei pensieri.
Altre volte ci costruisco un rifugio.
Non è disadattamento.
È immaginazione che salva.

Ho scritto un articolo sul daydreaming e su cosa accade davvero nel cervello quando sogniamo a occhi aperti.

Se ti va, leggilo sul mio blog. Link qui sotto.

#daydreaming 
#neurodivergenza #cervello #neuroscienze 
#immaginazione  #vitainteriore
#autismo #adhd 
#defaultmodenetwork

https://michiyospace.altervista.org/daydreaming-anatomia-di-unimmaginazione-creativa/

DAYDREAMING is now available here in your choice of size and media:
https://www.uniquefaces.art/2139376/Daydreaming.html

#art #BuyIntoArt #FillThatEmptyWall #kids #blackandwhite #children #interiordecor #AYearForArt #decoratingideas #wallart #artistprints #inkwash #portraits #mastoart #artprint #daydream #daydreaming

wish'ya a wonderful week with some spells of Violeta day dreaming

#wish #blessing #regards #week #spells #day #dreaming #daydreaming #garden #flowers #nature #lifestyle

#ShelbyLynne released a 3rd track from upcoming album #ConsequencesoftheCrown - #Butterfly. It's a breezy languid song perfect for the #summer heat ... reminds me of Flack's Feel Like Making Love, Aretha's #Daydreaming or Shelby's own Dreamsome

#newmusic #music #simsongs #randomplay #mixtape #summersongs #nowplaying #nowhearthis #listenup

https://youtu.be/7GiXkVpFO_c?si=wZFtnzgSJzRS4blM

Stuart L'Beau, daydreaming of his family and fiance.

#furryart #furry #anthrowolf #anthro #anthroart #anthroanimalart #wolf #rainyday #daydreaming

Edit: Not real (except in my dreams!)

How gorgeous is this place?!

https://www.instagram.com/p/C7OMaNci-_x/

#architecture #travel #daydreaming #WishIWasThere

Who wants to find some undiscovered land and build a colony with me? This life ain't it. A place where everyone helps each other out and money is irrelevant.

(Not my picture)

#adhdlife #adhd #ADHDer #maladaptivedaydreaming #daydreaming #fantasy #AuDHD #ADHDwomen #ADHDWorldProblems #actuallyautistic #autism #autistic #stayweird #neurodivergent #neurospicy #neurodivergence

"I have no recollection of how I used to waste time."

ojocaliente asks how we used to space out and waste time, pre-internet.

https://ask.metafilter.com/378496/i-just-kind-of-wasted-my-precious-time

#AskMetafilter #daydreaming #PreInternet #technology #TimeWasting #ZoningOut

#TheMetalDogArticleList
#PsyPost-PsychologyNews
New psychology study sheds light on music's role in maladaptive daydreaming
Music deeply influences maladaptive daydreaming, enhancing creativity and emotion in fantasies for many, but acting as a trigger for others, according to new psychology research.

https://www.psypost.org/new-psychology-study-sheds-light-on-musics-role-in-maladaptive-daydreaming/

#psychology #maladaptivedaydreaming
#music #study #daydreaming

The mind can idle away
Enriching memory stores
Daydreaming pays off

#daydreaming #brainplasticity #memory #haiku #poetry

https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/daydreaming-may-boost-brain-plasticity-memory-consolidation

If you had a decent amount of 'fuck you' money... what would you do with it?

I want to make an intentional community on lots of land thats both wooded and able to be farmed... hopefully with a river.

I want to have a bunch of year-round yurts in the woods... all connected by wood planks. Some bigger, some smaller.

I'd want people to be able to live in some of the yurts... whether as couples, families, coliving... whatever-- and then I'd want the other yurts to be 'community room' type things. A kitchen, a dining room (maybe together), a rec room or a few, things like that.

On the farmable land, we would do just that-- animals and fruits and vegetables. We would use as much of all of our bounty as possible. The rest could be donated, preserved, composted... etc etc.

I still want an intentional community, and I want to make as much of this come true as possible. I guess I just need the fuck you money.

#daydreaming #ifmoneywerenoobject #lifelongdream #intentionalcommunity #intentionalcommunities #kibbutz #kibbutzim #farming #gardening #selfreliant #selfsufficient #homestead #homesteading #fediverse #federated

https://barbarapicci.com/2023/04/21/streetart-martin-ron-buenos-aires-argentina-2/ #mural #youngchild #daydreaming

#showerthought #daydreaming #gingerbeard #gingerhair #gay #gingergay

First #album of the night is #AMoonShapedPool by #Radiohead. I’ve been a huge fan since the days of #PabloHoney (I saw them live shortly after) & this, for me, stands up with their best. #BurnTheWitch, #Daydreaming, #TinkerTailer, & #TrueLoveWaits - I Iove everything here.

The pressing is good, clean, centred, & dynamic… Though the SQ isn’t quite as good as my pressings of #OKComputer or #InRainbows.

I love the presentation & artwork.

#amlistening #NowPlaying #Music #vinyl #vinylrecords

I used to be super judgmental of folks who would joke about winning the lottery and quitting their job with no notice. But nowadays I think I’d do just that. And with little remorse.

As a consolation I think I’d send my immediate teammates a few grand each as a sort of “sorry my quitting made things slightly more difficult for you” breakup prize.

I’m not sure if this is growth or regression? 😂

#CorpLife #iQuit #Daydreaming #MiddleManagement

20180824

https://society6.com/product/20180824_print?curator=dabnotu

#Society6 #Art #Print #Photography #Hdr #Digitalmanipulation #Color #Digital #Paraty #Brazil #Streetphotography #Onvacation #Tourism #Summer2018 #Supersaturated #Layers #TheGIMP #Surrealistic #Psychedelical #Peopleinthestreet #Daydreaming #Lgk10 #Smartphotography #Thanksforviewing

#CreativeToots #MastoArt

20180823

https://society6.com/product/20180823_print?curator=dabnotu

#Society6 #Art #Print #Photography #Hdr #Digitalmanipulation #Color #Digital #Layers #Supersaturated #TheGIMP #Photomanipulation #Paraty #Brazil #Southamerica #Streetphotography #Futebol #Publicspace #Daydreaming #Summer2018 #Suburban #Peopleinthestreet #Surrealistic #Psychedelic

#CreativeToots #MastoArt

20180819

https://society6.com/product/20180819_print #CreativeToots

#Canvas #Print #Society6 #Photography #Hdr #Digitalmanipulation #Color #Brazil #Exhibit #Supersaturated #Interior #Art #Layers #TheGIMP #Photomanipulation #Smartphone #Lgk10 #Daydreaming

20180814

https://society6.com/product/20180814_stretched-canvas?curator=dabnotu

#Society6 #Art #Print #Photography #Digital #Color #DigitalManipulation #Photomanipulation #TheGIMP #Brazil #OuroPreto #PublicSpace #PublicMarket #SouthAmerica #LGK10 #Smartphone #Layers #Psychedelic #TakeALittleTrip #SuperSaturated #Summer2018 #OnVacation #Daydreaming #ThinkingOfYou

#CreativeToots