Can Daydreaming Improve Your Task Performance

Daydreaming not only offers a welcome "mental escape" from boring tasks, but is also found to improve task performance, reveals a new study. Scientists at Bar-Ilan University are the first to demonstrate how an external stimulus of low-level electricity can literally change the way people think, producing a measurable up-tick in the rate at which daydreams, or spontaneous, self-directed thoughts and associations, occur. Prof. Moshe Bar said that they ...