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Friday, February 4, 2011

Daydream Causes Memory loss



First of all, you must be thinking that is this for real? Well, when I was in class my teacher scolded me for day dreaming and told me that If you daydream then you will have memory loss. And I was like FOR REAL?

So I did a little investigation and this is what I came up with. Hope you enjoy reading it.



Hmm, day dreaming refers to as dreaming with our eyes open. We usually daydream we are bore or not amused. Like for example; You are attending a lecture class which is not exciting and you do not understand what the professor or teacher is saying to you. Then you start to imagine things and make up your stories.
Well, that my friend is called daydreaming. And believe me it is the most dangerous also. Day dreaming is just frightening because once you get the habit of day dreaming you start to forget everything around you. A Day dream is usually about stories or fiction's that you create in your mind and cannot happen in reality. Well, some of it can happen. While some people call day dreaming a lazy habit, some might consider it for being constructive or recreational.

Well towards the topic, Does day dreaming really make you forget things easily?
It was reported in a survey that there a lot of people and were divided into two halves. One group was told to fantasize about their fantasies and the other group was told to see a list of numbers. When they had finished it was found out that the people who were not day dreaming easily recalled whereas for the day dreamers they had a rough time. So, it indicate that day dreaming can cause loss of newly acquired memory.

So stop day dreaming and take care. :)


2 comments:

  1. Daydreaming does not cause memory loss. (multi-tasking, or the shift in mental focus is what causes a decline in short-term memory. This is because the shift from one task to another causes a burst of stress hormones to be released... stress is what causes the lack of the ability to recall information.)

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/scott-barry-kaufman/creativity-brain_b_827763.html

    http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/29/science/29tier.html?_r=2&pagewanted=1

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  2. I think it's more like the guys daydreaming were not loosing short-term memory, but were not paying attention due the daydreaming, hence preventing them from memorizing the numbers.

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