
Mind Wandering is Inevitable Over Time - Neuroscience News

Perhaps that is why so many of us have half-done tasks on our to-do lists and half-read books on our bedside tables, scroll through Instagram while simultaneously semi-watching Netflix, and swipe between apps and tabs endlessly, from when we first open our eyes until we finally fall asleep. One uncomfortable explanation for why so many aspects of m
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Our default waking mode (and also during dreaming phases of sleep) is not a brain at rest, but what is known as mind wandering.
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The Wayward Mind by Guy Claxton.