Everyone wonders why the mind has a tendency to lose focus and start thinking about something else besides the task at hand. You start to think about where rather than where you are or an event that happened in the past. The state of consciousness is called daydreaming. Daydreaming is “a common variation of consciousness in which attention shifts to memories and desires, away from the immediate situation” (Zimbarbo 332). Almost everyone daydreams every day. Moving forward without daydreaming is abnormal. Normally thirty (30) percent of the day is spent daydreaming (Zimbarbo 332). People who daydream can be positive and negative. There are several themes and daydreams that seem to happen naturally without anyone noticing. The act of daydreaming was recently studied by Malia Mason. He discovers that he cannot avoid daydreaming. In the brain there is a complex network that controls the frontal and temporal lobes. This is called the “default brain network.” It is used when the brain is at rest or focused on what is happening at that moment. Daydreaming doesn't always include i...