At some point in your life you’ve found yourself daydreaming and been told to stop doing it. We generally think of daydreaming as wasted time when actually it is second only to sleep in terms of clearing our brains and helping us develop ideas.
The mind and brain work together using brainwaves that can change our mental state from sleep to fight or flight. However, Theta brainwaves, that twilight place where we just drifted off, is where your mind performs all kinds of experiments. It is in this state that we are most subject to thought switching, experience vivid imagery, and using intuition because the rules of waking life have been suspended.
We do this all the time without thinking and it serves a very valuable purpose. Neurological studies have shown that the mind is not focused and has time to begin to use all of your imaginative resources to sort through information it has received and experiment with potential solutions. How we experience the result is: you return to reality and suddenly the answer is there and seems so simple you wonder how you could have missed it.
Using daydreaming strategically during the day, can help you sort through that 
portion of a project that seems to have no answer. Daydreaming breaks of five or ten minutes can yield dividends in terms of bursts of creativity and does not have to involve staring at your navel in the cubicle. A few minutes walk in an area with less stimulation, while thinking about a pleasant experience is more than enough.
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