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General => Everything Else => Topic started by: House of Mustard on July 15, 2005, 12:03:42 PM
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I need some help, and I don't want to say any more, for fear of tainting your answers.
Please, anyone, give me a list of occupations and/or hobbies that lend themselves toward daydreaming.
Thanks!
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The Internet.
Novels.
Anything related to sci/fi.
Thats what tends to set off my day dreaming.
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Menial jobs of any sort. I've worked plenty and I can tell you that performing mundnumbingly repetitive work that takes very little thought lets the mind wander, and it will.
Actual jobs:
Lawn mowing.
Security Guard on the night shift.
Experienced delivery driver.
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Any kind of job that requires you to use your imagination
I.E. Student, Writer, designer, Artist, Game developer, and other jobs of that nature.
Also mindless jobs, like posted befor, any job that allows you to not pay attention to what you are doing
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Working on any section of an assembly line. Knocking doors as a missionary (oh admit it, you did it too). After-hours janitorial work.
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Thanks guys -- I like all of that.
Here's a litt more direction: what is a job/hobby that draws you into a fantasy world? ie, rather than daydreaming because you're bored, you daydream because you're caught up in what you're doing.
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Being a Page. Whenever I work I'll pay attention to shelving books for a grand total of about five minutes, then I go off on autopilot and drift off, and with the books there it's hard not to drift towards a fantasy world.
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Whenever i'm in the middle of reading/watching/playing a good story, I tend to daydream about it during breaks, or when it's finished (sequels!).
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I daydream while I drive, do it every day.
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coding.
roleplaying.
raising kids.
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Night shift security guard really lends itself to what you describe. As long as your daydreams tend to be martial in nature anyway.
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Packing boxes in a warehouse. For 10 hours a day.
LOTS of daydreams. Anything repetitive.
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Thanks guys -- I like all of that.
Here's a litt more direction: what is a job/hobby that draws you into a fantasy world? ie, rather than daydreaming because you're bored, you daydream because you're caught up in what you're doing.
There ARE jobs like that?
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Some graphic design jobs and art direction jobs. Particularly if your a scifi/fantasy art director. Also illustrating.
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I'm not entirely sure what I do but I collect a paycheck every month and I'm pretty sure it's not allowance, probably because my parents don't give allowance. Also I spend my days in a strangley lucid daze...
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Editing makes me daydream, but it's focused daydreaming, having to do with what I'm working on. Except when I get bored or distracted by something in my personal life, then I daydream (or ruminate, rather).
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I'm not entirely sure what I do but I collect a paycheck every month and I'm pretty sure it's not allowance, probably because my parents don't give allowance. Also I spend my days in a strangley lucid daze...
So your job is being a lab rat for experimental drugs?
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Being out in nature tends to make me daydream of Fantasy-ish stuff. Like seeing the mountains in Provo, or hiking through the interior of Tahiti. Things like that.
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So your job is being a lab rat for experimental drugs?
well I do ussually end up as the test subject for my mothers new theories on how certain chemicle compounds can improve/ impede brain function... I'm actually serious this time, I've taken all sorts of things because my mom wants to know "what's this gonna do?"
eg: concerta, ritalin, welbutrin, seratonin, Dhea, melatonin, methylphendidate,zinc, BGH... etc.
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Anything in theater. In theater the possibilities are endless.
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Being bored. Not just bored for a little while cause you're not doing any work, but being really bored. The kind of bored that can't be achieved after children. The kind where you have nothing pressing to do, nothing coming up, and no plans for the immediate future. It also helps when nothing is on TV and you're sick and tired of playing video games.
That's when you're mind really starts wondering. Of course, it takes much too much work to get yourself to that position.
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Actually, I find the worst kind of bored is the boredom that occurs when you DO have something pressing to do, like a report on Walden, or a lawn to mow within a certain time limit.
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see I never ever get bored because I'm always too busy being me, IE the weirdest thing since weirdman drove his weirdmobile to weirdville and stayed at the weirdison inn and then had the weird continental breakfast... his eggs were a little weird, but then again all hotel eggs are kinda skeazy.
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I wrote a short story one time about a 'magician' who was battling an evil wizard. The wizard was trying to cast spells on the protagonist, and he was parrying and countering with spells and actions of his own.
In the end, he decides to 'channel' and ask a wizard even greater than he. The story then flips to a guy calling tech support. He describes the problems he is having (which correspond to the 'spells' the evil wizard was casting) and what he was doing to try to fix it (which again correspond to his actions). The tech support guy helps our poor and (we now realize) somewhat moronic protagonist, and he is able to defeat the evil wizard (gets his computer to reboot).
Anyway, sometimes I think those that use technology anthropomorphize the technology they use as friends and foes. Their laptop is their sidekick, their PDA is a superhero tool... etc. etc.
Just my random thoughts.
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I wrote a whole paper on "science as magic" for my Science and Literature class.