Journal #31: Insightful Daydreams

Have you ever had one of those days where you could not concentrate on anything? For instance, it is towards the end of the year, and during class, you do not listen to one word the teacher says because you cannot concentrate. Instead, you find yourself daydreaming about summer and all the fun things you are going to do once you get out of school. However, you get in trouble because you are focused more on the future summer details of your daydream rather than the material the teacher is giving you.

Sometimes, daydreams can lead you to insightful things. They can show you how to do something or give you that sense of dejavu. This is just another amazing thing about the subconscious.

This happened to me during Christmas break a few years ago. We had two weeks off or school, which was great! Unfortunately, we had homework over Christmas break. I had to write a history paper and I had some math homework to do. Being the intelligent eighth grader that I was, I decided that the best course of action was to put it off til last minute. Procrastination: the smartest decision. Right............... Well during that wintry break, probably about halfway through, I decided that it would be a good idea to get started on my paper. Of course, deciding to do that and actually doing it, were two completely different things. Again, I completely and totally forgot about the paper. A few days before school would start, I was just sitting lazily on my bed, reading a book and going into some kind of mindless daydream.

I daydreamed that I was back in history class, and the teacher asked for our history papers. Suddenly, I freaked out, knowing that I had procrastinated and doing so, mindlessly forgot to do my paper. I looked around the room for more classmates, who had done the same thing as I did, hoping that the teacher would pardon us if the majority had forgotten. But when I looked around, everyone had finished their papers on time; I was the only careless one, sitting there distraught and paperless.

When I came back to reality, from my daydream, I immediately went to work on my paper, and making sure that I was in reality and this homework was not another daydream. When break was over, I returned to history class, with paper in hand, and on time.

This daydream helped me realize that time was running out, and it was time to do my homework. Luckily for me, the daydream came just in time to snap me back into reality. This little daydream had saved me from one, failing to complete a paper, and two, from a bad procrastination habit.