Thread: I'm having a problem with.....

Mmm, your problem here is not day-dreams, but a failing attention span. You say you day dream all the time? If this is the case, there're two solutions: Probably the most effective and long-lasting is to imporve your attention capacity. This is done by practice. Do boring things, but try very hard to do them well. Waste time, but find the interest and competition in it - find the interest in everything you do, even the most mundane and seemingly boring. If you try hard enough for long enough, this'll become your natural behavioural state of existence. As a result, you'll be less bored, more attentive, and therefore less likely to day-dream.

The other, more hedonistic, unreliable, dangerous and realistically short-term solution is to do more interesting things with your time. If you're taking part in activities all the time which lead to your attention wandering to the dream-state, you could benefit from simply doing things which hold your interest more. Spend time doing what you consciously want to put your mental efforst into. If you do this, you should be too cognitively enveloped in life to wander into day-dream.

Btw, yes this is all lay-person, psuedo-science tripe, but that doesn't mean it isn't right.

alright thnx

Originally posted by alucinor
Mmm, your problem here is not day-dreams, but a failing attention span. You say you day dream all the time? If this is the case, there're two solutions: Probably the most effective and long-lasting is to imporve your attention capacity. This is done by practice. Do boring things, but try very hard to do them well. Waste time, but find the interest and competition in it - find the interest in everything you do, even the most mundane and seemingly boring. If you try hard enough for long enough, this'll become your natural behavioural state of existence. As a result, you'll be less bored, more attentive, and therefore less likely to day-dream.

The other, more hedonistic, unreliable, dangerous and realistically short-term solution is to do more interesting things with your time. If you're taking part in activities all the time which lead to your attention wandering to the dream-state, you could benefit from simply doing things which hold your interest more. Spend time doing what you consciously want to put your mental efforst into. If you do this, you should be too cognitively enveloped in life to wander into day-dream.

Btw, yes this is all lay-person, psuedo-science tripe, but that doesn't mean it isn't right.

I find a much more simpler, easier to remember method is to get a friend to poke you with a large stick each time your eyes glaze over. Soon you will never forget to stay awake.

Originally posted by Kaniaz


I find a much more simpler, easier to remember method is to get a friend to poke you with a large stick each time your eyes glaze over. Soon you will never forget to stay awake.

lol This will definitly work!!