Daydreaming during meetings or class might actually be a sign that you’re smart and creative, according to a Georgia Institute of Technology study.
“People with efficient brains may have too much brain capacity to stop their minds from wandering,” said Eric Schumacher, an associate psychology professor who co-authored a research paper published in the journal Neuropsychologia.
Participants were instructed to focus on a stationary fixation point for five minutes in an MRI machine. Functional MRI (fMRI), which measures changes in brain oxygen levels as a proxy for neural activity, was used.
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