Editing Dream (section)

=== Daydreams ===
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[[File:Joseph Noel Paton - Dante Meditating.jpg|thumb|left|''Dante Meditating'', 1852, by [[Joseph Noel Paton]]]]

A daydream is a visionary [[fantasy (psychology)|fantasy]], especially one of happy, pleasant thoughts, hopes or ambitions, imagined as coming to pass, and experienced while awake.<ref name="Klinger">Klinger, Eric (October 1987). ''[[Psychology Today]]''.</ref> There are many different types of daydreams, and there is no consistent definition amongst psychologists.<ref name="Klinger"/> The general public also uses the term for a broad variety of experiences. Research by Harvard psychologist [[Deirdre Barrett]] has found that people who experience vivid dreamlike [[mental image]]s reserve the word for these, whereas many other people refer to milder imagery, realistic future planning, review of memories or just "spacing out"—i.e. one's mind going relatively blank—when they talk about "daydreaming".<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Barrett |first1=D.L. |year=1979 |title=The Hypnotic Dream: Its Content in Comparison to Nocturnal Dreams and Waking Fantasy |journal=Journal of Abnormal Psychology |volume=88 |issue=5 |pages=584–591 |doi=10.1037/0021-843x.88.5.584}}</ref><ref>Barrett, D.L. "Fantasizers and Dissociaters: Two types of High Hypnotizables, Two Imagery Styles". in R. Kusendorf, N. Spanos, & B. Wallace (Eds.) ''Hypnosis and Imagination''. New York: Baywood, 1996. and,  Barrett, D.L. "Dissociaters, Fantasizers, and their Relation to Hypnotizability" in Barrett, D.L. (Ed.) ''Hypnosis and Hypnotherapy'', (2 vol.): Vol. 1: ''History, theory and general research'', Vol. 2: ''Psychotherapy research and applications'', New York: Praeger/Greenwood, 2010.</ref>

While daydreaming has long been derided as a lazy, non-productive pastime, it is now commonly acknowledged that daydreaming can be constructive in some contexts.<ref>{{cite news |first=John |last=Tierney |author-link=John Tierney (journalist) |title=Discovering the Virtues of a Wandering Mind |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/29/science/29tier.html |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |date=28 June 2010 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170421104306/http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/29/science/29tier.html |archive-date=21 April 2017}}</ref> There are numerous examples of people in creative or artistic careers, such as composers, novelists and filmmakers, developing new ideas through daydreaming. Similarly, research scientists, mathematicians and physicists have developed new ideas by daydreaming about their subject areas.