Researchers Want to Help People Recapture Daydream State by Angela Mohan on March 5, 2021 at 11:33 AM
Daydreaming is a part of our cognitive toolkit that s underdeveloped, and it s kind of sad, as per Erin Westgate, Ph.D., a University of Florida psychology professor.
The ability to think for pleasure is important, and you can get better at it, Westgate says. The first step is recognizing that while it might look easy, daydreaming is surprisingly demanding. You have to be the actor, director, screenwriter and audience of a mental performance, she said. Even though it looks like you re doing nothing, it s cognitively taxing.