♔ / Posted on Jun 05 2012 at 7:59pm via newyorker with 469 notes
#like a fountain spurting #daydreaming #savasana #yoga #the new yorker
#like a fountain spurting #daydreaming #savasana #yoga #the new yorker
![newyorker:
Jonah Lehrer, our newest staff writer, on the benefits of daydreaming: http://nyr.kr/L0NIiM
“Virginia Woolf, in her novel “To The Lighthouse,” eloquently describes this form of thinking as it unfolds inside the mind of a character named Lily:
Certainly she was losing consciousness of the outer things. And as she lost consciousness of outer things, her mind kept throwing things up from its depths, scenes and names, sayings, memories and ideas, like a fountain spurting.
A daydream is that fountain spurting, spilling strange new thoughts into the stream of consciousness. And these spurts turn out to be surprisingly useful.[Read more]”
Every savasana for me.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m55mdn9z9f1qav5oho1_500.png)
Jonah Lehrer, our newest staff writer, on the benefits of daydreaming: http://nyr.kr/L0NIiM
“Virginia Woolf, in her novel “To The Lighthouse,” eloquently describes this form of thinking as it unfolds inside the mind of a character named Lily:
Certainly she was losing consciousness of the outer things. And as she lost consciousness of outer things, her mind kept throwing things up from its depths, scenes and names, sayings, memories and ideas, like a fountain spurting.
A daydream is that fountain spurting, spilling strange new thoughts into the stream of consciousness. And these spurts turn out to be surprisingly useful.
[Read more]”
Every savasana for me.
