Lana stop daydreaming! Lana wake up! Lana keep your mind on your work! Lana! Lana! Lana! The number of times that I heard those words thrown at me would amaze you. But all my life I have been a daydreamer and daydreaming has become an everyday exercise in my thought process. You really did not think that I come up with all these blog ideas by doing concerted and exhausted research for a topic to espouse about.
A daydream is a visionary fantasy, especially one of happy, pleasant thoughts, hopes or ambitions, imagined as coming to pass, and experienced while awake. While daydreaming has long been derided as a lazy, non-productive pastime, it is now commonly acknowledged that daydreaming can be constructive in some contexts. There are numerous examples of people in creative or artistic careers, such as composers, novelists and filmmakers, developing new ideas through daydreaming. Similarly, research scientists, mathematicians and physicists have developed new ideas by daydreaming about their subject areas. ~~Thank you Wikipedia.
Take that Sister Mary Immaculata. I was not being a 'Lazy Girl! I am calling your father!" And now you all know my secret. I am a compulsive daydreamer.
I call myself a 'Functional and Willful DayDreamer'; because I can slip off into a dream state when ever I feel the need. Actually, I would even call it a form of meditation. Several years ago, during my search for myself phase of me life, I was looking into Transcendental Meditation. After about two weeks of study I realized that I was already meditating through my daydreaming.
The difference in my purposeful form of daydreaming is that where daydreaming is generally described as happy or pleasant thoughts, as in the Wikipedia description, I can move myself into an area where the thoughts as not of a happy nature. Most people daydream unknowingly where as I actually start my daydreaming exercise purposefully with a thought in mind. Now more times than not this original thought is transformed into something that can not be recognized as my original thought. Amazing things can happen when we let out subconscious take us for a ride.
My girl friends four year old daughter daydreams a lot. I love watching her stare off into space; knowing her little mind is producing wonderful stories. Lately I have taken to asking her about what she was thinking about and have been writing some of it down. One day I will share the cutest story of how 'Color was first found'. Imagination is so important to foster in a child.
A daydream is a meal at which images are eaten. Some of us are gourmets, some gourmands, and a good many take their images precooked out of a can and swallow them down whole, absent-mindedly and with little relish. ~W.H. Auden
I wish I had said that because it really reflects how I feel about daydreaming. Even when our conscience mind has delusions of grandeur; our subconscious mind knows where our paths lie.
All religions will pass, but this will remain: simply sitting in a chair and looking in the distance. ~V.V. Rozanov
I can only conclude that "Daydreaming is good and Sister Mary Immaculata needs to rethink her ideas about it"
Love ya,
Night
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