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In school, nothing gets a kid in trouble faster than staring out the window…daydreaming. It shows they aren’t focused on the subject at hand.
“Pay Attention!” teachers say.
Maybe it’s inhibited our ways of learning or understanding the world, even into adulthood. Did you ever wonder why you might come up with some of your best ideas right before you fall off to sleep, or in the shower?
It’s because you’ve loosened your mental grip long enough to let new creative ideas in, in that more hidden, subterranean put of your mind. You’ve started daydreaming…which is actually problem solving. (Now, it sounds important, huh?)
Today, I’m giving you permission to daydream.
Put on a pot of coffee and decide on some situation you want to ponder. (And put your coffee in an air tight thermos, so it doesn’t taste like armpit after 20 minutes. Just a little tip for ya.) Then, just give yourself 10 or 15 minutes to daydream. It might open doors you didn’t know were there.
Has there ever been a time when daydreaming helped you solve a problem?
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I love this. I have never seen my shower story telling as day dreaming but it is making sense to me now as I sit here pondering your words. To be completely transparent I do much of my prayer time in the bottom of my tub with the shower hitting my back while on my knees. You are so correct about our mental grips being loosened! Thank you for uncovering this mystery for me. Now, if I can just remember my shower stories long enough to get them on paper because I always seem to loose them.
Praying and daydreaming. There’s no doubt that I’m a weirdo…but I have always seen a connection or relationship here. I don’t see the two as separate spheres. Both praying and daydream are part of the same facet in a hidden part of our Soul (soul meaning whole person). I’m covering this in my ebook, actually! whoot. so stay tuned. It all starts May 1.
If something is just not working out with my writing while I head for showers. It has been the place where I have had the most consistant and clear communication with God. Time to think is at a premium in our busy world. God was pretty specific when he called for a Sabbath, a whole day free of distractions, with time to just sit and ponder. It does a body-mind-spirit good.