Abstract
OPINION article Front. Psychol., 27 August 2013Sec. Perception Science https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00538
Highlights
Task-independent thought, spontaneous thinking, free associating, creative imagining are some of the terms used to describe what occurs to our mind when we notice its functioning, or when we allow it the freedom to be in its natural condition: open, aware and spontaneously fluid
The dualistic structuring of experience may have an interesting parallel in the global organization of the cortex into the intrinsic default network involved in selfreferential processing, and the extrinsic or task-positive network involved in perceiving and acting in the environment (Golland et al, 2007; Soddu et al, 2009)
Increases in the activation and functional connectivity in the areas of default network have been found with meditations that emphasize the subjective pole of experience (Yamamoto et al, 2006; Travis et al, 2010; Lou et al, 2011), while increases in activations and functional connectivity in the areas of the task-related extrinsic network have been found with meditations that emphasize the objective pole of experience
Summary
Task-independent thought, spontaneous thinking, free associating, creative imagining are some of the terms used to describe what occurs to our mind when we notice its functioning, or when we allow it the freedom to be in its natural condition: open, aware and spontaneously fluid. To the extent that mind wandering serves a function of dissociating and avoiding the awareness of certain aspects of one’s present experience, it could be said to be related to unhappiness.
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