"So this mind wandering mode turns out to be very different from the task engagement mode, because it's where thoughts that are loosely connected seamlessly flow into one another, like in a dream. That's why we call it daydreaming. And you begin to see connections between things that you didn't see as connected before. Loosely-affiliated thoughts flow into one another, non-linear kinds of thinking, sometimes juxtapositions of different ideas. This is the mode of thinking where your most creative acts are likely to occur, and where problem solving is apt to occur. So I'm sure you've had this experience that you're trying to solve some problem, work something out. You focus on it. You're getting nowhere. You drop it for a while. You might be out shopping, and suddenly, it hits you, the answer. That's the daydreaming mode having kicked in. It usually kicks in when you're doing something else that doesn't require a lot of focus, and so the daydreaming mode takes over. And if you use a little bit of self-reflection and think back, or the next time it happens, analyze what's going on. It's probably that the solution was something that wasn't obvious before, or you would have thought of it. It's something that required a non-linear thinking or putting together, piecing together of disparate ideas that you hadn't seen as connected before. So problem solving depends on this other mode of the brain."
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