Time on our own.
Time to be alone.
Time with our thoughts.
Time to daydream.
At the moment, many of us find ourselves with more free time alone than ever before and, while we may find useful and productive ways to fill this new-time, it is worth putting some aside to daydream. After all, when times are ‘normal’, so much emphasis is put on being productive and ‘doing stuff’, while daydreaming is slated as lazy, childish, useless.
But it’s not. When we daydream, we give free reign to parts of our brain to ponder and stew. And the parts that get involved include the subconscious, that part of us over which we have no real control but which, when given free rein, speaks for what is truly important to us, as an individual. In daydream, we explore new, alternative possibilities, we create new associations and scenarios, we construct something better. A Cloudland.
Virgina Woolf’s Lily in “To the Lighthouse”: “Certainly she was losing consciousness of outer things. And as she lost consciousness of outer things … her mind kept throwing up from its depths, scenes, and names, and sayings, and memories and ideas, like a fountain spurting.”
Drift off, daydream. Juurko Haltuu is here to help.
- Andrew Sherwell, spring 2020
credits
released May 25, 2020
Music: Jurko Haltuu
Art: Linn Schrab
Mastering: Linus Schrab
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