Our daydreaming state, aka boredom, that we all default to given nothing on which to focus.
Your brain slips into the default mode when you’re bored or day dreaming. It skips from thing to thing via relations you’ve formed in your head. In doing so it makes those connections stronger. This is called “the default network” and it a relatively new discovery. It is not centralized to any spot in the brain. It’s a circuit.
👌 Daydreaming helps build connections between concepts in the brain.
It’s one of the four components of the Human Attentional System - opposed to the Central Executive