Two Sylvias' Weekly Muse: July 10, 2022

Issue 11

Hello Muse Readers,

We hope that you are having a wonderful weekend.

One topic that is always interesting to read about is the connection between daydreaming and creativity, and summer is the perfect time to give some thought to letting your mind aimlessly wander.

Did you know, according to a Harvard study on daydreaming, that the average person spends 47% of their waking hours in some sort of daydreaming state? Many of us who are poets, artists, and creatives are familiar with the negative terms for being in this state: space cadet, zoned out, out of it, absent-minded, even lazy.

Psychologist Jerome L. Singer conducted daydreaming research in the late 1960s and found that daydreaming, imagination, and fantasy are strongly related to the creative arts—writing, painting, sculpting, acting, music, etc. He understood that for some people daydreaming can be indicative of other issues, such as a poor attention span and obsessive worrying, but to the majority of people he applied the term “pos…