Mind-wandering is, in one view, the mind at play. And dreaming is the play of the mind while asleep.
Dreaming and mind-wandering are connected by a shared quality of fundamental playfulness.,” a system of neural regions that remains active in the absence of external stimulus or focused thought. During sleep this same system of neural regions becomes active, helping to generate the experience of dreaming.
Two books by esteemed researchers make this argument about the connection between dreams and mind-wandering:, by Antonio Zadra and Robert Stickgold, and, by G. William Domhoff. When scientists of the stature of Domhoff, Stickgold, and Zadra reach a common conclusion, it’s worth taking the idea very seriously.However, the valuable implications of this idea remain obscure when expressed in research terminology. I suggest a more helpful framework is provided by the concept of.
, a key text for the early German Romantics which suggested that play enables us to achieve a higher union of the mutually opposing needs of our mind and body, intellect and desire, reason and sensation. “Man plays only when he is a man in the full sense of the word,” Schiller stated, “and he is only a complete man when he plays.
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