Daytime mind wandering is linked to dream content while asleep, study finds
Even sleep is no barrier to the brain’s story-making processes. Dreams feel real because they’re made of the same hallucinated neural models we live inside when awake.
Will Storr • The Science of Storytelling: Why Stories Make Us Human and How to Tell Them Better
One study of dreams concluded that if we live to eighty years old, six years of our life will have been spent dreaming—not sleeping, which is a far higher percentage. Six years dreaming! Apparently, dreams are tied to our nature and its effort to process, metabolize, correct, and heal the fissures that lie within each of us.
Joseph Lee LCSW • Dream Wise: Unlocking the Meaning of Your Dreams
Our default waking mode (and also during dreaming phases of sleep) is not a brain at rest, but what is known as mind wandering.