Day Dreamer
It seems like I am constantly day dreaming about holiday break. I want to be at starbucks drinking a latte, skiing with friends, or throwing snowballs at my brothers. When I read this article, I thought about how my constant day dreaming is never ending. Yet the article presented a lot more scientific research to back up its lengthy discussion on daydreaming; this made the language in the piece very different. When Lehrer (the author) quotes different people he uses the word “said”, there is no descriptive analysis about how people say things, for example the phrase, Schooler “says”.
However, Lehrer uses imagery to offset any scientific research that may appear dry to the reader. He calls the content of a dreams a “soap opera” and claims that in the world of “make believe…We can leave behind the world as it is and start imagining the world as it might be, if only we hadn’t lost our temper of had superpowers, or were sipping a daiquiri on a Caribbean beach”. The reference of taking a vacation or sitting on a beach is appropriate for the situation because it makes you daydream while reading the article. I stopped for a second and thought: The day is warm and I am sitting on the beach with a book and my virgin-frozen-strawberry-daiquiri. Yum. So everyone- what are you daydreaming about?
http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2008/08/31/daydream_achiever/
Posted in: on Monday, December 15, 2008 at at 8:26 PM