how can i stop daydreaming? it's involuntary!!?

Answer 1

Daydreaming is NOT entirely involuntary. Daydreaming IS also voluntary.

Little children have imaginary play friends. They build dream relationships and homes, within the confines of their little minds.

The more they mature, they will learn to categorize and train their thought processes. Thereby, giving their minds a firm and concrete pattern; so that, the highway of their brain doesn't collide. A mind deteriorates when it is left in shambles to roam as it pleases without direction.

When you find this happening to you, stop and open up a constructive chamber of thought. You may want to open up the chamber of thought of math. Choose a number, for instance the number 17. In your mind, add, subtract,multiply and divide this number with random numbers that you mentally select.

You can also do this with words. Start out by choosing five words, with at least eight letters, that you can not spell correctly and which you do not know the meaning of. Familiarize yourself with the correct spelling and meaning and then randomly flash these words through your mind. Continue to increase these flashes by five more words, as you learn the others.

In the beginning it may be slow and seem infantile to you. But, within no time, you will find yourself daydreaming less. If you later find that these exercises are not helping you, then at best, it will have gotten you to think more.

Answer 2

I read this about day dreaming on wikipedia..maybe it will help but I also know I day dream more when I haven't been getting enough sleep...Daydream
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

A daydream is a fantasy that a person has while awake, often about spontaneous and fanciful thoughts not connected to the person's immediate situation. [1] There are so many different types of daydreaming that there is still no consensus definition amongst psychologists. [2] While daydreams may include fantasies about future scenarios or plans, reminiscences about past experiences, or vivid dream-like images, they are often connected with some type of emotion.

Daydreaming may take the form of a train of thought, leading the daydreamer away from being aware of his immediate surroundings, and concentrating more and more on these new directions of thought. To an observer, they may appear to be affecting a blank stare into the distance, and only a sudden stimulus will startle the daydreamer out of their reverie.

While daydreaming has long been derided as a lazy, non-productive pastime, as can be seen in the use of the derogatory phrase "pipe dream," daydreaming can be constructive in some contexts. There are numerous examples of people in creative or artistic careers, such as composers, novelists, and filmmakers, developing new ideas through daydreaming. Similarly, research scientists, mathematicians, and physicists have developed new ideas by daydreaming about their subject areas.

Of course, excessive daydreaming may be bad for some individuals, such as severely depressed people who daydream about their shortcomings, thus miring themselves further in their depression. However, people who daydream more than average may have some psychological strengths, such as increased empathy. Some psychologists use the mental imagery created during their clients’ daydreaming to help gain insight into their mental state.

Answer 3

Actually the only way you can stop from daydreaming is to keep your mind soooooooooooooo occupied that absolutely nothing else creeps into it!

This is an impossibility because you would become crazy if your mind was constantly in motion as this would require.

Learn to Live with it! Some of the greatest inventions, songs, sayings, thoughts, etc. etc. etc. ever known to man (or women as far as that goes) resulted from daydreams!

And it has never been shown that anyone ever actually had a Harmful Daydream!

So think positive!

As you grow older your "daydreams" will become less and less and you will find yourself actually asking yourself "Why don't I daydream any more?" -

Answer 4

It sounds as though you may have a problem with staying focused. Is is possible that you suffer from a.d.d (attention deficite disorder)? What is it you are doing when you lapse into day dreaming? This will give you some insite as to why you day dream. Perhaps it is just that you are bored.

Answer 5

Thanks for the answers.