"We can be intensely mindful of our daydreams, and as a result move one step closer to realizing our greatest creative potential."
Thank you for this, Scott. I've always thought of my "positive constructive daydreaming" as both an enemy and a friend to 'creative productivity'. Friend, because that is where the ideas bloom, and enemy, because we end up, as Montaigne said "both everywhere and nowhere". I really love the idea of using mindfulness to simply bring the daydreaming into the present, whilst at the same time not imposing limits upon it. Still, a rather tricky thing to do in practice.
Great, concise article. Thank you. In the reading I’ve done on DMN there is usually a lot involving “self-reference”. It seems rumination and worry are what frequently occur when we are in that day-dreaming, “wow, I just drove 15 minutes and don’t recall any of it” state. I understand this to be the self-referential thinking within (largely) the DMN. How do we distinguish areas of brain activity, for example, when I’m contemplating quantum- gravity or some abstraction compared to an argument I’m suddenly replaying for the hundredth time. Thanks, again.
Hi Scott, what would be DMN? Is it a typo for EAN?
Default Mode Network, which I have renamed The Imagination Network. :)
I believe ‘DMN’ as used is ‘Default Mode Network’.
Correct. :)
Ah, thanks for asking the question I was literally just about to!!
"We can be intensely mindful of our daydreams, and as a result move one step closer to realizing our greatest creative potential."
Thank you for this, Scott. I've always thought of my "positive constructive daydreaming" as both an enemy and a friend to 'creative productivity'. Friend, because that is where the ideas bloom, and enemy, because we end up, as Montaigne said "both everywhere and nowhere". I really love the idea of using mindfulness to simply bring the daydreaming into the present, whilst at the same time not imposing limits upon it. Still, a rather tricky thing to do in practice.
Great, concise article. Thank you. In the reading I’ve done on DMN there is usually a lot involving “self-reference”. It seems rumination and worry are what frequently occur when we are in that day-dreaming, “wow, I just drove 15 minutes and don’t recall any of it” state. I understand this to be the self-referential thinking within (largely) the DMN. How do we distinguish areas of brain activity, for example, when I’m contemplating quantum- gravity or some abstraction compared to an argument I’m suddenly replaying for the hundredth time. Thanks, again.