life on planet earth on Daydreaming

How long do daydreams last? Eric Klinger ran a study in which he trained a group of participants to estimate the duration of their thoughts, daydreams or otherwise. What he found was that the average ...

In a 2010 study called “A Wandering Mind Is an Unhappy Mind” (gulp), Harvard psychologists Matthew Killingsworth and Daniel Gilbert developed an iPhone app to survey the thoughts, feelings, and action...

How many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares if there seemed any danger of their coming true!

We ignore so much stuff for a simple reason: if we didn’t, we’d quickly be overwhelmed, our brains flooded until they seized up. Depending on the kind of information, it takes our brains some amount o...

I weathered even the worst sermons pretty well. They had the great virtue of causing my mind to wander. Some of the best things I have ever thought of I have though of during bad sermons.

Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives.

Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?

You see things; and you say, “Why?” But I dream things that never were; and I say, “Why not?”

Dreams say what they mean, but they don't say it in daytime language.

Our inclination is to reveal to God only what we feel comfortable in sharing. Naturally, we want to love and be loved by God, but we also want to keep a little corner of ourselves, where we can hide a...

A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.

Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions.

Nothing happens unless first we dream.

Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.

I’m sick of following my dreams, man. I’m just going to ask where they’re going and hook up with ’em later.

When we were young, we said, ‘This is what I am going to do with my life.’ When we grew old, we said, ‘What happened to the dream?’

The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.

Disturb us, O Lord, when We are too pleased with ourselves, When our dreams have come true Because we dreamed too little, When we arrived safely Because we sailed too close to the shore. Disturb us, O...

A day can really slip by when you're deliberately avoiding what you're supposed to do.”

Imagination is absolutely critical to the quality of our lives. Our imagination enables us to leave our routine everyday existence by fantasizing about travel, food, sex, falling in love, or having th...

We care more for our possessions with which we hope to make our way in the world than with our thoughts and dreams which tell us who we are in the world.

A dream which is not interpreted is like a letter which is not read.

I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.

Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.

Today, a number of historical circumstances are blindly flowing together and accidentally conspiring to produce a climate within which it is difficult not just to think about God or to pray, but simpl...

Distracted from distraction by distraction

We do not content ourselves with the life we have in ourselves; we desire to live an imaginary life in the minds of others, and for this purpose we endeavor to shine.

I throw myself down in my chamber, and I call in and invite God and his angels thither, and when they are there, I neglect God and his angels, for the noise of a fly, for the rattling of a coach, for ...

I recently watched a children’s movie (Extinct, 2021) with my kids. To be fair, it probably will not receive any Academy consideration, but it was enjoyable. The story revolves around a pair of extrem...