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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"Daydreaming"”.
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Daydreaming Devices
Daydreaming Devices is a project on aspects of daydream and the design of convertible furniture within the context of art. This thesis addresses the concepts and the design of two daydreaming devices developed during my studies at MIT, the Dreaming Lounge and the Working Unit. Both works create a …
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Elsewhere: In Defense of Daydreaming
<p>Much like music, organic life is an absurd, improbable, and serendipitous instance. I set circular, electric, acoustic, and magnetic forces in motion and allow them to coalesce freely in the hopes of synthesizing unexpected moments of beauty, connection, and harmony.</p>
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The effects of stressful life experiences and maladaptive daydreaming on selective attention among young adults
… ACEs have been associated with maladaptive daydreaming (MD) and impairments in selective attention (SA). Less is known about AAEs on selective attention and MD in adults. This study aimed to address gaps in the literature using a sample of 177 adults aged 18 and 30 who were assessed for …
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Making Space for Daydreams
… The exhibition explores themes related to daydreaming, and the value of recognizing and building spaces that help make daydreaming possible. In addition, the work explores presence, memory, and inner child relationships as way to understand and frame my own relationship to daydreaming. By …
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Mental Life and Medical Illness: A Study of General Practice Patients
… related to physical illness. The popularity of daydreaming (and dreaming) is widespread in the self-help market. Yet research definitions of mental life have seldom included imaginal activities. The aim of this research was to establish a health (and mental life) profile of patients in general …
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The relationship between daydreams and manifest needs
… empirically the relationship between reported daydreaming behavior and manifest needs.</p>
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Leave Space
… knowledge, as a canvas holds a subject matter. Daydreaming begins and thoughts spill out from the perimeter of the mind into other areas that hold memories. The experience may be of a past recollection revitalized or new hopes for adventures wishing to be sought.</p> <p>Painted leaves extending …
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This is All It Is for Treble Voice and Fixed Media
… serious concepts. Topics include maladaptive daydreaming, self comfort, and encouraging oneself to move forward and be their true self despite trying times. The singer is asked to imitate sounds, such as crying or laughing, or characters, such as a storybook fairytale villain. The heaviest …
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The Z axis and its composite matrix of perception
… and second, through internal processes such as daydreaming and hypnosis. These two techniques often mingle. Various examples from art, film, and online communities are identified to demonstrate these techniques. The thesis will present video based experiments that test our perceptions in space …
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Belizean secondary school teachers' judgments of discipline problems and Belizean secondary school students' attitudes toward education
… silence in a classroom, 3) students consistently daydreaming or sleeping in class until it seriously reduces study time, 4) students consistently failing to come properly equipped to classes, 5) students regularly missing homework assignment, 6) students consistently being tardy for classes, 7) …
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Learning from young people's lives : an exploratory study of some potentially important psycho-social factors in the lives of teenagers and young adults.
… Inventory (a well-established measure of daydreaming) were administered among 50 UAs and 50 HAs to gauge the possible overlap of these established scales with the proposed concept of a 'Relationship with Reality' personality dimension and its component factors. Only moderately low …
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The Effects of Intensity Level and Expertise on Attentional Focus During Exercise
… that are unrelated to the exercise, such as daydreaming, listening to music, or focusing on the environment. The purpose of the current study was to determine how both the Stages of Change model and the intensity level of the exercise bout affect attentional focus. A new six-category measure …
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James Thurber's Little Man and the Battle of the Sexes: The Humor of Gender and Conflict
… fiction and essays about various anxieties and daydreaming. Neurosis works well as comic material because it also catalyzes the battle of the sexes. To support my interpretation of Thurber as a critic of societal gender roles, Freud's book The Joke and Its Relation to the Unconscious is useful …
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The Sempiternal Nature of Architectural-Conservation and the Unfinished Building and Drawing
… of conservation. This defines a collective daydreaming strategy, from which multiple authors can imagine possible futures. Ambiguity and polysemy inform the drawing, generating an equivocal space where unforeseeable inventions occur by the process of future predictions by recollecting …
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Effect of music by Mozart and sounds claiming to contain beta-frequency enhancing audio signals on backward digit span recall
… theta waves ( 4-8 Hz), which are linked to daydreaming states. Recently this principle of increasing focus and attention through increasing beta waves has been used in audio technology that claims to increase beta waves through sound. The idea that sound or music can increase a person's …
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A phenomenology study of clinicians' perspectives on dissociation while working with traumatised children in the South African context.
… and features identified were misbehaviour and daydreaming. Predisposing and precipitating factors were found to be risk factors for the development of dissociation after a trauma is experienced. These factors were the younger the child when the trauma happened the more likely the development of …
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Going and going : a contemporary search for meaning
… vacation to the worlds of the self. For example, daydreaming and dreaming are natural means to go on an excursion to our inner lands. In the modern world, meaningful mental expeditions can come about when learning or perfecting skills for play or sports, with the body or with the aid of …
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Learning from young people's lives: an exploratory study of some potentially important psycho-social factors in the lives of teenagers and young adults
… Inventory (a well-established measure of daydreaming) were administered among 50 UAs and 50 HAs to gauge the possible overlap of these established scales with the proposed concept of a 'Relationship with Reality' personality dimension and its component factors. Only moderately low …
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Exploring teachers’ perceptions of teaching learners with mild attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in selected inclusive primary schools in Lusaka district, Zambia.
… to teach the learners, inattentiveness and daydreaming or zoning out. It was evident that teachers used support strategies while teaching learners with mild ADHD to aid their learning such as catch up strategies, social and emotional support strategies, professional development strategies …
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Exploring teachers’ perceptions of teaching learners with mild attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in selected inclusive primary schools in Lusaka district, Zambia.
… to teach the learners, inattentiveness and daydreaming or zoning out. It was evident that teachers used support strategies while teaching learners with mild ADHD to aid their learning such as catch up strategies, social and emotional support strategies, professional development strategies …
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