Comments on: Daydream inventions http://blog.brainstore.com/2008/09/daydream-inventions/ Thu, 01 Jul 2010 14:14:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: JT http://blog.brainstore.com/2008/09/daydream-inventions/comment-page-1/#comment-9086 JT Thu, 18 Sep 2008 12:29:58 +0000 http://blog.brainstore.com/index.php/daydream-inventions/#comment-9086 "It was also discovered that kids who never experience moments of sensory stimulation (absence of TV, video games etc.) are not able to daydream." What?? I'm sorry, can't understand it. Do you mean that absence of TV and video games leads to not being able to daydream? I can't be true. I would say right the opposite. I never had TV and never played video games, and I'm one of the biggest daydreamers I know between the people around me. I would say sensory stimulation is much more powerful when painting, modelling, playing music or just playing around with other kids. And maybe the best practice for daydreaming would be reading, as it trains your "mental rendering" skills a lot. But, well, I'm not a brain professional. A very interesting thing about all this is comparing the western daydreaming with the eastern-asian idea of meditation. They're almost opposite ways of thinking, but they both are good at some way. I would love someone of you brain experts to write about that comparison :) “It was also discovered that kids who never experience moments of sensory stimulation (absence of TV, video games etc.) are not able to daydream.”

What??

I’m sorry, can’t understand it. Do you mean that absence of TV and video games leads to not being able to daydream?

I can’t be true. I would say right the opposite. I never had TV and never played video games, and I’m one of the biggest daydreamers I know between the people around me.

I would say sensory stimulation is much more powerful when painting, modelling, playing music or just playing around with other kids. And maybe the best practice for daydreaming would be reading, as it trains your “mental rendering” skills a lot.
But, well, I’m not a brain professional.

A very interesting thing about all this is comparing the western daydreaming with the eastern-asian idea of meditation. They’re almost opposite ways of thinking, but they both are good at some way. I would love someone of you brain experts to write about that comparison :)

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