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2: Daydreaming and Mental Contrasting for Goal-Fulfillment

The Psychology Podcast

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Day Dreaming

Researchers have found that when we doom positive day dreams about a desired future, people lose the energy to actually perform difficult tasks. In these positive day dreams, you can do a lot - and in situations where there is no freedom of action, dreaming about the future gives you at least the mood and moderation to stay in the field. So for example, yonowin, you have these wonderful ideas of going to a certain movie, and then you imagine how wonderful that movie is. And then you sudles kind of imagine that, ah, maybe I don't know this kind of movie. You can explore the possibilities of the future in the stayreams. They're just sitting there

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