How to Improve Your Life Through Daydreaming

Remember when you were a kid how awesome was your imagination?

If you were like me, you’d probably spend hours imagine cool stuff and create entire scenarios in your head easily.

Whatever happened to that? Whatever happened to just sit in a chair and vividly fantasize about whatever you want without a single fear or problem in the world?

You did it so well that at some point you didn’t even know the difference between reality and your imagination.

Today you are too busy, tired, cranky, and have a million things to do before breakfast, and you simply don’t have the time to indulge in that childish non-sense like daydreaming.

But you ever consider what good you may have if you just spend 15 minutes per day with your imagination?

The superpower of daydreaming

According to Cambridge Dictionary, daydreaming is a series of pleasant thoughts about something you would prefer to be doing or something you would like to achieve in the future.

That means that you visualize your future achievements or something you want to do.

Why imagine your future achievements are good for you? Because it can teach you who to interact with the difficulties that may appear on the way. Often, you daydream about a dream you have, writing that book, or start that business, and you’re putting yourself to the finish line when all that is achieved.

“Nothing makes time pass or shortens the way like a thought that absorbs in itself all the faculties of the one who is thinking. External existence is then like a sleep of which this thought is the dream. Under its influence, time has no more measure, space has no more distance.” ― Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers

But daydreaming has a superpower. It lets you imagine not only the finished product but the entire process that will take you there. You know, after you imagine your Nobel literature prize, you can imagine how it’s like to just sit at the table and start writing.

Or after you dream about millions of dollars that your company will produce, you’ll start to imagine what steps you can take to put your business online.

It will be much easier for you to acknowledge the difficulties of writing the book or starting the business because you’ll deconstruct the plan that will get you to your Nobel or your millions of dollars.

The process is important

Daydreaming has its limitations, tho. You can’t expect to fantasize about your future and sit back, waiting for it to materialize. When you daydream, you need to focus on what your mind is telling you about the process.

You don’t have to focus on where you’ll be, but focus on how you’ll arrive at the destination.

“There are certain half-dreaming moods of mind in which we naturally steal away from noise and glare, and seek some quiet haunt where we may indulge our reveries and build our air castles undisturbed.” ― Washington Irving, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories

So to put it simply. Connect with the kid you have been, take a moment of your day and let your mind wander without restrictions, and see where it goes for you.

Don’t focus on the result. Instead, focus on the steps that will bring you to your destination.

And most importantly, let your imagination fly.