What is the purpose of day dreaming ?

 It seems to me that some people with schizophrenia can not foresee a good future. They even seem not to be able of a good daydream, as odd as it may seem.

Faced with someone complaining about the lack of good fanatsies, , the psychiatrist would likely say, "I am happy you are less dellusional". 

But he would be wrong here. And I will show why.

Let´s think in a biological manner. All animals try to optimize their efforts for food. A lion will seek to hunt at night, to save energy either from the burning sun or from competitions with hyenas. A cheetah will try to get it´s prey in thirty seconds, a chimpanzee will change from one tree to another in every three days, and so forth. ( these are just fictitious examples, please).

So, there´s always the spent energy and the received energy.

So, all animals actions have to have a purpose, lest they waste energy.

But humans have a peculiarity. Day dreaming doesn´t help to hunt or gather. Why that then?

What are these fantasies?

Sometimes, I agree they would have a purpose, that of calculating what to say tomorrow, but these are by no means all the fantasies.

Usually they try to make a hero of us, or someone inportant, or just make us more likeable, depending on the ego size. Many times people get back in time, and solve problems of those ages. So many of us have cried in the Oscar party, won the presidential election.

What the hell is the biological reason for the energy spent in this way?

Well, what is the result of these fantasies ?I think they calm , settle down the dreamer. They are useful to drive away worries and angers. 

There could be different interpretations of that. But in my opinion the sense of satisfaction brought by the fantasies has a higher, unsuspected outcome.

An energy that comes to all calm people. There´s that. You may call it God. That is the purpose of the wasted time.

Of course, to be truly peaceful involves more than just daydreaming, but the good travellers are half way to heaven.

From this observation, I would say sometimes what is missing in  schizophrenic people is God.

Quite often they are good people, but hindered of this source of life, as they can not laugh, or smile from inexistent situations. They are all too worried about a policeman that may stop them, or of those musicians on the sidewalk who, by just eye looks, can guess all their thoughts.

Sadly, these thoughts deprives them of a precious source of energy.

Mankind has an ancient wisdom that there´s such energy. And we are taught to read the Bible and the Kuran, where there´s information on how to absorb that.  

But I add my reasoning here. We have an instinct of being calm and satisfied,and we notice that fantasasing we reach that and then there´s God reward. 






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