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originally posted by: leolady
a reply to: arpgme
Sounds like mind control to me !
Lets see... I'm thinking of the beach right now. The ocean breeze and a light wind blowing on my face. Lazy lounging at the pool. Waking in the am and actually having time to watch the sunrise. Ahhhhhh peaceful serenity.
I feel pretty happy and relaxed right now.
leolady
originally posted by: leolady
I wander...
How we would have writers, if we didn't have wandering minds. Or the "Einstein's" and "Edison's" and "Tesla's" if they hadn't had wondering minds.
Without our wandering minds, I'm afraid we would be like robots only focusing on the task at hand we have been given. No stepping out of line.
leolady
When people were mind-wandering, they reported feeling happy only 56% of the time. Meanwhile, when they were focused on the present moment, they reported feeling happy 66% of the time.
What is what I'm getting at. I wonder how they conducted the experiment that came to this conclusion ?
Happiness
Matthew Killingsworth invented an iPhone app that captured user’s feelings in real time. The tool alerts the user at random times and asks: "How are you feeling right now?" and "What are you doing right now?"[50] Killingsworth and Gilbert's analysis suggested that mind-wandering was much more typical in daily activities than in laboratory settings. They also describe that people were less happy when their minds were wandering than when they were otherwise occupied. This effect was somewhat counteracted by people's tendency to mind-wander to happy topics, but unhappy mind-wandering was more likely to be rated as more unpleasant than other activities. The authors note that unhappy moods can also cause mind-wandering, but the time-lags between mind-wandering and mood suggests that mind-wandering itself can also lead to negative moods.[50] Furthermore research suggests that regardless of working memory capacity, participants participating in mind wandering experiments report more mind wandering when bored, stressed, unhappy.