Why Our Minds Spend 50% Of The Time Zoned Out Or Wandering (M)
Mind wandering is experienced as a kind of zoning out from what is going on around us.
Mind wandering is experienced as a kind of zoning out from what is going on around us.
Children’s ‘delayed remembering’ goes hand-in-hand with their so-called ‘extreme forgetting’.
Because so much of our behaviour is unconscious, it is hard to change it until we are aware of what we are already doing.
Modern thinking about how much sleep you should get questioned by research.
When your mind blanks the brain goes into a sleep-like state.
This protects couples from divorce and reduces the damaging effects of poor communication.
Taking a break from a problem often brings an insight later on, but what should we do in the meantime?
In this phase of life the brain is especially sensitive to new memories, social stress.
The natural sound also boosted people’s mood.
While it feels like we are in control, we are really remembering things we have already unconsciously decided to do.
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