Sentence examples for mental wandering from inspiring English sources

Mental wandering then becomes dangerous!

Watching "Gatz" is a heightened version of reading the book oneself, including the same moments of riveted attention and mental wandering.

Kiki's mental wandering juxtaposes ordinary, empirical time, the fifteen minutes of her inattention, to the pent-up, aesthetic time that has slipped by without being noted.

The Post-it notes were, in essence, a jury-rigged memory device, intended to rescue users from those moments of mental wandering.

The scans revealed that a particular set of interconnected brain regions was more active when volunteers worked on well-practiced sequences and in individuals who'd reported a greater tendency for mental wandering.

Television, video games and other electronic distractions prevent this kind of mental wandering because they interrupt the flow of thoughts and memories that cement the foundation of positive, productive daydreaming.

She and her mother provide a typical description of this restlessness that could lead to people with mental illness wandering into the bush: Akua: I will be standing there talking with someone, and if I go out I could get lost.

People suffering from schizophrenia and other mental ailments are wandering the streets lacking access to medications, psychiatrists say.

Vincent "the chin" Gigante, the feared boss of the New York-based Genovese crime family, earned the name "the oddfather" due to a long-lasting ruse by which he feigned mental illness in public, wandering distractedly around Manhattan wearing a dressing gown and slippers and mumbling incoherently.

The increase in induced theta power in frontal regions may be related to a state referred to as mind wandering (spontaneous mental activity based on their introspective experience) [ 24, 25].

But the achievement brought Johnny nothing but existential disenchantment (surviving the impossible climb, he said to a friend, only meant that "nature wasn't as raw as everybody wanted to believe"), and, two years later, fresh out of a mental hospital, he wandered alone up avalanche-ridden Mount Denali, never to be seen again.