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a daydream so good your body forgets it's supposed to be working.
means a state of pleasant, drifting daydream — being lost in your own thoughts rather than the world in front of you.
from From French rêverie, from the Old French rever, 'to dream' or 'to wander, rave.' The same root gives us 'rave,' which hints at the word's wilder past: early meanings leaned toward delirium and raving madness before English softened it, by the 17th–18th centuries, into the gentle mental wandering we mean today. The deeper source of Old French rever is uncertain — etymologists admit they don't fully know — which feels fitting for a word about losing track of where your mind has gone.
- default mode
- Brain's idle network lights up when you zone out
- musical name
- Debussy wrote a Reverie that outlived his disdain
- problem solver
- Mind-wandering boosts creative insight more than focus
- french roots
- From rever, to dream, once meaning wild delirium
- costly drift
- People spend nearly half their waking hours mind-wandering