3 Reasons Why Zoning Out is Important for Your Memory
Calmly dissociate from your thoughts without feeling guilty about it.
Have you experienced staring blankly that you haven’t even realized it? Has your mind suddenly spaced out or you took a nap while you were in the middle of focusing, perhaps while studying?
Well, you are not alone. Many people encounter what you are experiencing and I am no exception to that.
I, too, always doze off whenever I review for an exam during my undergrad days and felt so annoyed.
When we are zoning out, the immediate feeling that comes into us is that “ugh feeling” as soon as we get back to our senses. We feel so bad thinking that time only flew and went to total waste.
However, we don’t have to be frustrated about it. Here are the reasons why:
If I only knew these things back then…
1. It is an integral part of our learning
Our brain has two modes of thinking — the focused and the diffused mode. The focused mode is when your brain tries to work intently without distractions like solving a math problem or writing your thesis.