Sasha Grey

I always had all of these childhood fantasies about wanting to invent things, like a spaceship or a time machine. And everyone's imagined what it would be like to go back in time and change things, to see what would happen if you had a different life. 'Back to the Future' fulfills all of those daydreams. It's the perfect movie.

American Actress

Ingrid Newkirk

Every animal has his or her story, his or her thoughts, daydreams, and interests. All feel joy and love, pain and fear, as we now know beyond any shadow of a doubt. All deserve that the human animal afford them the respect of being cared for with great consideration for those interests or left in peace.

British Activist

Rachel McAdams

I had a small-town life - I worked at the local McDonald's for three years. I'm not sure why they kept me: I am something of a daydreamer and a dawdler, so they would only let me be the 'friendly voice' that greeted you when you entered the restaurant.

Canadian Actress

Katie Piper

I was writing for myself, not to be published. I was writing diaries, even letters, to myself or to anyone I was angry at. Sometimes they weren't to a person, they were just to the universe - a bit like penning daydreams or isolated thoughts.

English Writer

Taylor Swift

You can make a board for all the goals you want in your life with the pictures on it, and that's great, daydreaming is wonderful, but you can never plan your future.

American Singer

Ritchie Blackmore

They used to complain at school that I looked out of the window for long periods of time - that sums up my life. I like to look out the window, do nothing, daydream.

English Musician

Xavier Dolan

All my life, I heard, 'Stop daydreaming,' 'Get over yourself,' 'You'll never get there,' 'Aim lower,' 'You'll hurt yourself,' from teachers, family, and friends.

Canadian Actor

Sandra Cisneros

In my youth, daydreaming nurtured me, provided a safe haven. I'd sleep for twelve hours and even when awake escape to the safe place in my mind.

American Author

Samantha Shannon

I'm often daydreaming, and it's because I've always liked the idea of there being something more than the normal world.

British Writer

Talulah Riley

I was a real daydreamer at school, gazing out of the window and losing myself in imaginary worlds.

English Actress

Daydreaming can be a form of emotional escape from reality or current tasks.

Emotional Escape

Daydreaming isn't always positive; it might imply distraction or lack of attention.

Not Always Positive

Daydreams often involve scenarios that are wished for or idealized.

Wishful Thinking

Daydreaming as a verb suggests a creative or thoughtful process.

Creative Thinking

Use 'daydreaming' to describe someone in the process of having a daydream.

Present Tense Usage

Daydreaming implies leisurely activity, often done when one has free time.

Leisurely Activity

 and positive emotions, and the evidence suggests that daydreaming can help people envision ways to reach their goals and navigate relationships and social situations. Scientists think there may be two essential parts to this a generative phase of free-flowing ideas and spontaneous thoughts, courtesy of the default mode network,

The benefits of...

 The instruction was simple enough but I was missing something really important. So why is it so hard to pay attention? Well, studies show that even when we're really trying to pay attention to something -- like maybe this talk -- at some point, about half of us will drift off into a daydream,

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 and cans of food tucked away in the back of a closet. There was a deep restlessness in me, a primal fear that I would fall prey to a life of routine and boredom. And so, many of my early memories involved intricate daydreams where I would walk across borders,

A glimpse of life on the...

 that animals, including ourselves, spend a good amount of time thinking about sex, but what might surprise you is the extent to which so many other aspects of their lives and our lives are influenced by it. So thank you, and happy daydreaming.

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 there are no winners, here’s nothing but suffering and another life blown away. War is a terrible school no matter what the disguise, forgive me for not enlisting under any flag, any daydream is worth more than a sad piece of cloth."

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 other day and she was like oh yeah yeah I loved that whole maiden in the tower daydream when I was a kid I was like no I wasn't the girl locked in the tower I was the guy on the horse rescuing the girl on the tower I was the

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 with a person at work. And they said, well, the fundamental thing you have to do is turn off your BlackBerry, close your laptop, end your daydream and pay full attention to the person.

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 in a different sense. I document dreams. I work with daily life as it could be, as I imagine it. I am a daydreamer, but at the same time I love things that are authentic

Portraits that transform...

 a lot of people who I would hire to babysit absolutely not I said to myself daydream all day this way I did with everyday stress and strife back there I just visualized

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 It was this moment that I asked myself that life-defining If my life were a book and I were the author, how would I want the story to go? And I began to daydream.