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The Death of Daydreaming

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707 points isolli | 1 comments | 05 May 25 12:22 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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spudlyo ◴[05 May 25 16:17 UTC] No.43896657[source]▶
While I generally appreciate this advice to allow yourself to be bored for all the creative benefits that come with it, I also resent it. When large portions of my life were outside of my control due the 8 hour workday, I felt like I don't want to squander what little time I had to myself while commuting daydreaming. I try not to judge people who are glued to their phones, they could be scrolling TikTok, or they could be reading great literature.
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reaperducer ◴[05 May 25 16:22 UTC] No.43896735[source]▶
I felt like I don't want to squander what little time I had to myself while commuting daydreaming

The whole point of this discussion is that daydreaming is not a worthless activity, therefore time spent daydreaming is not "squandered."

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1. makeitdouble ◴[05 May 25 16:34 UTC] No.43896885[source]▶
I read parent's point as having a hierarchy of stuff they want to do, and daydreaming is not worthless, just not as important or rewarding as any other thing they were doing during their commute.

For instance for people reading around a hundred books a year, would they want to spend more time daydreaming instead of reading ? Probably no.