Does anyone out there(as adults) still daydream & ponder?

Question

It can be using the imagination in any kind of scenarios---whether it's imagining ways to make a better world or flying through space or just letting the imagination run wild with pure fantasy daydreams(going back in time etc.) or even just pondering things. Is using the imagination a lost art for most adults?

Answer 1

I usually try to imagine myself talking to people from 2500 years ago (all language barriers aside) and trying to explain the world around us. How would you explain electricity, automobiles, physics, computers, human anatomy. I think it really puts things into a perspective where you can appreciate just where the human race is right now.

Answer 2

Wow, I know that you already know this coming from me, but yes, I definitely am a HUGE dreamer! I love to daydream, ponder, etc. I've been a daydreamer since I was a little girl, and can remember so vividly, sitting in a classroom looking out the window and just taking myself to another world, in my mind. I know, not a good thing to do when you're trying to learn, but hey, I didn't know any better back then, lol. :) I have an amazingly colorful imagination as well. I often do daydream about being in a different time and place, and I love to daydream of doing things with my life that no one else would ever guess that I would even be remotely interested in. I daydream and ponder all the things in this life, and try to make sense of things that I have a hard time understanding.

I was almost painfully shy when I was younger, and being able to daydream was a wonderful way for me to escape the real world. I could go places in my mind, that I would never dream of going otherwise. :)

Yes, I very much think that daydreaming and using the imagination is a lost art for many. I can't even comprehend not being able to daydream or have the vivid imagination that I do! Sadly, I think people that don't daydream, or believe that it's a waste of time, are totally missing out and have absolutely no idea how wonderful it can be.

Answer 3

I'm an adult and I still daydream. I was the kid who was often daydreaming out the window during class and that part of me has not changed. I'm a habitual daydreamer.

Answer 4

Art uses daydreams and dreams at any point in an artist’s life. So do writers and musicians. Any art form uses dreams.

Answer 5

Yes. I just had this weird daydream that I was going to make a raspberry pie for my mother-in-law and that she refused to eat it because it had too much sugar in it, so I had to stand out by the road with my thumb up, trying to find someone to take my raspberry pie!

I think I'll just eat the pie myself.

Answer 6

I hope they never stop pondering and daydreaming. Such is the core of man's creativity.

It would be a sad thing to lose one's dreams.

Answer 7

Not in my experience, I devote at least 30 minutes every day to daydreaming, it makes living in a routine easier to bear.

Answer 8

I'm 30, and next to sleeping and napping, daydreaming is the thing I do most.

Answer 9

I believe that daydreaming is very important. That is when your mind is open. This is a wonderful thing. It is a form of meditating and that is very healthy.

Answer 10

Of course, but deceiving ourselves with our smart justification of it. We can call it deliberations, not even knowing what deliberation actually means, or thinking as minimum, pointing out on our "developed " ,intellect,in another word energetically supplying external drama with our OPINIONS based on presumptions.