Have you had difficulty remembering events before you daydream? If so, then it is normal.
Recent research has found that while daydreaming or mind to pensive everywhere, can cause partial loss of memory, especially memory before one starts to daydream. The farther your mind drift while daydreaming, it will be more severe memory loss.Previous studies also found that thinking about something else, either daydreaming or mind wandering (mind-wandering), can block access to the memories or the memories of the past.
In the new study, scientists investigated several participants. Participants were divided into two groups.
The first group was asked to see the list of words that appear on a computer screen, one by one. Then participants were asked to daydreaming, thinking about events that interest him. Furthermore, both groups of participants were only asked to see a list of words, without daydreaming.
At the end of the test, both groups of participants were asked to recall as many words what he saw from the list.
The result, the group was asked to daydream just tie a few words in comparison with the group who did not daydream. This suggests that daydreaming can eliminate most of the newly acquired memory.
This study has been published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science.
"Daydreaming can make you feel in different situations, because you can not remember events that happened before you daydream," said Peter F. Delaney of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, as reported from Psychcentral, Friday (30/07/2010)
