Let your thoughts hike again – Diepresse.com

Who doesn't remember? As a child, you lay on the sofa with rigid view, while a carousel of thought from balancing elephants and colorful pirate battles relaxed in front of the inner eye. If you were caught with joyful deportation, the warning was usually followed: « Stop dreaming »-and the mental free jazz quickly landed in that drawer with all the things that should not be done, for example drilling in your nose or bubbling with the armchair. Because: wasted time.

In psychology, the uncontrolled deportation of the thoughts is also referred to as « mind hiking ». Pictures appear in front of the inner eye, while we largely hide external stimuli. A slight form of expansion of consciousness, with which people spend almost half of their waking time, as a study by the two psychologists Matthew Killingsworth and Daniel Gilbert from 2008 showed. 46.9 percent wandered from external tasks to produce spontaneous content. However, what did not always result in positive feelings: those study participants who often wandered dreamers were tended to be more unhappy than those who remained at the moment.