WIDE-AWAKE DREAMS –
Dec. 19, 2023 – Over time, brain activity upon seeing an image started to resemble brain activity when daydreaming about that image.
This is a sign that daydreaming was strengthening some neuronal connections while weakening others, creating a more efficient stimulus response overall. “Our findings suggest that daydreaming may guide this process by steering the neural patterns associated with the two images away from each other.” “We feel pretty confident that if you never give yourself any awake downtime, you’re not going to have as many of these daydream events, which may be important for brain plasticity,” argues neurobiologist Mark Andermann from Harvard.
