Interesting topic, BirdDancer!
Have you seen this article about the general population w/r/t daydreaming? -->
http://scholar.harvard.edu/files/dan...ience-2010.pdf
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To find out how often people’s minds wander, what topics they wander to, and how those wan- derings affect their happiness, we analyzed samples from 2250 adults (58.8% male, 73.9% residing in the United States, mean age of 34 years) who were randomly assigned to answer a happiness question (“How are you feeling right now?”) answered on a continuous sliding scale from very bad (0) to very good (100), an activity question (“What are you doing right now?”) answered by endorsing one or
more of 22 activities adapted from the day recon- struction method (10, 11), and a mind-wandering question (“Are you thinking about something other than what you’re currently doing?”) answered with one of four options: no; yes, something pleas- ant; yes, something neutral; or yes, something un- pleasant. Our analyses revealed three facts.
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Mind wandering occurred in 46.9% of the samples and in at least 30% of the samples taken during every activity except making love
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Seems rather common
