Daydreaming Vs. Mind Wandering: Key Differences

Oct 19, 2023 · these results suggest that mind wandering and daydreaming, while sharing many similarities, produce different kinds of thoughts and are not interchangeable. The appellation “daydreaming,” often used interchangeably with “mind wandering,” highlights the folk psychological similarity between mw and dreaming evident even in our language. 24 daydreaming produced a significantly greater number of thoughts compared to mind 25 wandering. Our key findings were that the situations were perceived diferently with regard to mind‐wandering and day‐dreaming, depending on whether self‐generated thoughts occurred when the.