My gift to you is the permission to day dream

Musings and observations by me, nothing scientific.

In December 2021 I decided to deactivate my personal social media accounts. There were a number of personal reasons for this, but mostly, I needed a mind freeing break and to rest my thumbs from the mindless scrolling. I want to share with you something that I rediscovered about myself during my hiatus one day when found myself staring idly at the grass rather than picking up my phone. I rediscovered day dreaming.

I had been connected to some form of social media since my first Myspace in 2006 then Facebook from 2007.

This is by no means a scorn piece for social media, it's users or it's content. I love the beautiful people I have connections with all over the world, which has been made delightfully easier thanks to social media platforms.

I have so many memories of child me sitting in my warm sunny bedroom just staring off into space, or day dreaming, as I now recognise it to be. I would be looking at the trees outside or listening to music and letting my mind go places. Oh the wonderfully far fetched ideas I would conjure up. I remember being told at the time that I was wasting time and should get outside and play. Was it then that I formed the belief that day dreaming wasn't a valuable asset to myself or did I form this thought during adult hood, where there seems to be an invisible pressure to be doing or achieving something? Every Monday morning seems to starts with what did you get up to on the weekend? More often than not I used to feel like I had to have some answers at the ready. It hardly seems like responsible adulting to say I sat and stared out the window for a few hours.

During my social media departure, I found I had so much more time to fill in. I started playing guitar again after a 15 year break, I have no idea why I had stopped but I realised I missed it so much. My partner and I spend lots of time learning new songs to play on our guitars and singing our hearts out. I took more time finish doing the bits and pieces that needed doing in our house bus and I found myself day dreaming more and more.

In the beginning I would self correct and busy myself with something physical. Over time I started to feel my brain 'think' more creatively about pretty much everything from life situations to how I wanted the rest of my life to play out. With no body telling me I was wasting time, I gently began to let myself sit more and more in this day dreaming space and it has felt rejuvenatingly fantastic. I came up with new business solutions, ideas that would take me from plodding along without direction to actual soul food stuff.

During my social media hiatus, I rediscovered the joy, creativity and necessity of day dreaming and how valuable it is for me.

I can comfortably confirm that day dreaming has been an instrumental factor in the creation of Noo-Muh and my wild free spirit tribe mates. I highly recommend that if you have the space in your day for day dreaming you may also find it beneficial.

Give yourself permission to day dream.