Are lotto players dreaming lottery numbers? This is why daydreaming is good for winners
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Who hasn't wondered what they would do with their lottery jackpot?
Even people you assumed didn't need more money still do this too…they are dreaming lottery numbers.
Just like many players who have previously won, they are still playing the lottery because they have unfulfilled fantasies about winning again.
But really, is dreaming about winning healthy? And what happens when you do?
"People assumed that when your mind wandered it was empty," Kalina Christoff, a cognitive neuroscientist at the University of British Columbia, told the Wall Street Journal.
Christoff said, "Mind wandering is a much more active state than we ever imagined, much more active than during reasoning with a complex problem."
And the result is enhanced creativity.
So you will be able to make lists of future purchases and travel destinations much easier if you spend a little time looking at the clouds.
An Australian man in his 40s won $1 million using numbers he saw in a dream 13 years ago.
"I’ve been playing these numbers for 13 years,” he said.
“I dreamt them one night–they appeared in my dream. I woke up and wrote them down, and I’ve been playing them ever since."
What would you buy?
If they won the lottery tomorrow, a number of surveyed lottery players say they would:
Quit my job
Pay off the credit cards
Set aside enough to pay for college tuition
Travel a lot
Invest/secure my retirement
Help out my family
Make large donations to my favorite charities
Pay off the mortgage
Buy a new house/car/vacation home
Start my own business.
So indulging in a little fantasy about what you would do with your lottery winnings is a good thing.
It encourages self-examination that can have a positive effect and makes each day a little better.
Yes, daydreaming is definitely healthy!
