by Rachelle de Bretagne

Created on: June 14, 2007

What do your daydreams say about you as a person ? It's not a simple question although it is one that can be taken to a logical conclusion.

We all daydream from time to time and whilst studies on night dreams are common, those on the aspect of daydreaming are less common. To understand what the mind is doing and what daydreams say about a person, we need to examine the kind of daydreams that people have:

*Memories
*Longings
*Nostalgia
*Regret
*Family events
*Work events
*Abstract

Taking a look at the different aspects of daydreaming can tell a lot about a person, although there is an overall theme which we will explore later. Those that daydream in a nostalgic manner are taking a journey backwards to times that were perhaps more pleasant, and this is the mind's way of escaping the reality of the moment and taking thoughts into a better place where memory lies. Memories, longings and abstract thought processes are usually an escapism that helps a human being cope with the now element in their lives.

Regret and longings are negative daydreams though do play a part in helping an individual understand the processes of mistakes made and regret in particular is a look back at past events, while longings hits the same road though in a future direction. What this achieves is learning and while in some human beings this leads to improvement, in others those mistakes are never learned by and the daydreaming process simply turns over all the negative thoughts making them sometimes more negative than they need to be.

Daydreaming about work and home life are common, and this is a normal phenomenon where the subject is wrapped up in either home or life, and sees different scenarios in their mind's eye that concern their career or their family. These are usually healthy daydreams and take the individual into the different possibilities open to them.

What does daydreaming say about the individual ?

Those subjects that dwell on the negative are stuck in situations that they don't know how to get out of and haven't yet learned the process of putting the negative thoughts into positive mode. Daydreams act as lessons if the subject learns to take all negative traits within daydreams and turn them into positives. The mind is a very complex machine, and training it to be useful isn't that hard. Those that always have negative daydreams are people who need to concentrate on their reactions to the world around them and the people that make up their lives. The negative daydreams help them to look

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