[The] average daydream is about fourteen seconds long and [we] have about two thousand of them per day. In other words, we spend about half of our waking hours — one-third of our lives on earth — spinning fantasies.

The Storytelling Animal – the science of how we came to live and breathe stories. (via explore-blog)

Some interesting science pointing to daydreams as a crucible of creativity.

(via jtotheizzoe)

On the one hand I pretty much feel that the new trend toward cognitive cultural studies is awesome, because it legitimates in the eyes of many the kinds of things that I do and love. On the other hand, I knew all of this before anyone ever told me that it was a biological truth, and (in what would probably be my only exception to a belief in the power of scientific rigor) if someone ever discovers that it’s not a biological truth, I would refuse to believe them. (And I also hate the fact that there is a hierarchy of disciplines in which literary studies can only legitimate itself to the “outside world” by way of the sciences. I can’t help but assume that the people for whom science legitimates storytelling have just never read the right books.)

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The Storytelling Animal – the science of how we came to live and breathe stories. (via explore-blog)

Some interesting science pointing to daydreams as a crucible of creativity.

(via jtotheizzoe)

On the one hand I pretty much feel that the new trend toward cognitive cultural studies is awesome, because it legitimates in the eyes of many the kinds of things that I do and love. On the other hand, I knew all of this before anyone ever told me that it was a biological truth, and (in what would probably be my only exception to a belief in the power of scientific rigor) if someone ever discovers that it’s not a biological truth, I would refuse to believe them. (And I also hate the fact that there is a hierarchy of disciplines in which literary studies can only legitimate itself to the “outside world” by way of the sciences. I can’t help but assume that the people for whom science legitimates storytelling have just never read the right books.)

Dont usually reblog quotes or text , but wow .

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