Being caught dreaming 'and blaming your brain?

According to US researchers, daydreaming seems like a default setting in the human brain and there are certain brain areas for it.

Researchers report in the latest issue of Science magazine that when people are assigned to a specific job, they focus on that work. But then, during the time of settling down, other brain areas became busy.

You can call it 'fantasy dreaming' but scientists call it 'thinking regardless of stimulus' (Photo: Imagesource)

Psychologists, Dr. Malia Mason of Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital said: 'There is a network of areas that seem to be always active when you don't give something to people to do.'

When Dr. Mason asked people what happened during this time of decline, the answer was clear.

She said: 'It is a dreamy state. But I discovered that most of the time, people don't have imaginary thoughts. They are thinking about what to do later today. ' Her research team called it ' thinking independent of stimuli ' or rambling thoughts.

Neuroscientists and psychologists have debated what is happening when people do not think about something or do something specific and have a common consensus that the mind is not merely becoming empty.

Dr. Mason's team set up an experiment using a functional magnetic resonance magnetic resonance display, or fMRI, to see what's going on. This technique allows scientists to capture images within the actual processing time of the brain, showing which areas work and when. They can do this while talking to the ' taken ' person, so they can see the effects of an activity when it happens.

Dr. Mason's research team recruited 19 volunteers and ' scanned ' them when they did many different things. The task of verbal memory operations includes skillful memorization and manipulation of four four-character sequences such as RHV X. Volunteers are also ' taken ' as they sit there, waiting for further work. according to the.

Thoughts are rambling and fleeting

The researchers wrote: ' When there is no job that requires careful consideration, the mind tends to think impatiently, transiently from one thought to the other. and serenity. '

Now they know what that state looks like.

The active areas include the upper forehead brain roll - one of the large tumors in the front of the human brain; brain lobe - on the side of the brain; and areas in the temporal lobe - behind the brain.

Dr. Mason is not sure why this activity took place. But she believes that it also contains some of the basic functions of the brain that indicate human nature, although her research team has yet to describe the brain image of any other animal.

The team says one possibility is that the brain is always doing something so that it is always in active state when quick thoughts or reactions are needed.

The researchers wrote: 'The second possibility is that a kind of spontaneous movement of the rhythm of the mind [thinking regardless of stimulus] gives a tight feeling to past experiences, present and future of a person. '

Dr. Mason added: 'We are not stuck in the present. We might get stuck in the car when traffic is congested but we are not stuck there mentally. '

Or maybe there is no cause for daydreaming.

Researchers conclude: 'Although the thoughts that the mind makes when thinking thinkily are sometimes useful, those cases do not prove that the mind thinks rambling because these thoughts have adaptability; on the contrary, the mind can think about it simply because it can do it. '

Thien Kim