marshall wrote:
Verdandi wrote:
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A daydream is a visionary fantasy, especially one of happy, pleasant thoughts, hopes or ambitions, imagined as coming to pass, and experienced while awake.
The majority of my "daydreaming" is more analytical than this. I spend most of my "inner time" thinking about ideas and interests. There's only so much time I can spend thinking about unlikely fantasies before I grow jaded and bored. The same goes for reflecting on past experiences.
I do fantasize from time to time but it isn't what I do the majority of the time when I'm "lost in thought".
I suppose my most creative thinking is more in the intellectual realm than in the fantasy realm. I've never been great at coming up with stories and such but part of it might be inhibition or self-consciousness. Or it might be that I'm better with generalities and abstractions than anecdotes and personal narratives.
At the same time though I don't think lack of fantasy correlates to lack of a vibrant inner emotional life in my case. When I do get engrossed in something emotional I tend to be more sensitive than others. I can almost get sucked in too much as sometimes it seems like as much as I'm oversensitive, I'm simultaneously drawn to things that tug at my heart strings, things that can be beautifully poignant and disturbing at the same time.
Likewise, having a vivid fantasy life doesn't correlate with having a deep emotional life.
I have an overactive imagination and artistic talent in spades, but I've always suffered from a lack of "deep emotions."
Half the time, I'm not even aware I'm having emotions at all until hours later, and never ask me to describe how I "feel." But it hasn't affected my obsession with scifi/fantasy novels and videogames.
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17 Dec 2011, 11:37 am
. Anyway I have one last important question: How was the brain monitored? There is a possibility that the very way the activity was measured coils have interferred with the observation.
