The amount that I daydream has varied immensely, from periods of daydreaming for hours, even a couple of days, at a stretch, to times, like now, when I rarely if ever daydream at all.
I have been wondering whether this latest period of at least 8 months now, of little or no daydreaming, has anything to do with the fact that for the last 10 months I have been eating glten-free, because this would fit with things that I experience "on" gluten, such as depression, alienation, black hole thinking, etc. I think gluten puts me much more in my head.
When in chronic/frequent/lengthy daydreaming mode/state I sometimes had the impression that i used it to work things through, explore ideas and experiences, but I now wonder whether it was similar to that thing studies have shown about how human brains will "find ways to amuse themselves" when isolated from contact/stimulation etc, a bit like what happens during sensory deprivation, which again would fit with the gluten hypothesis.
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