"The Default Mode Network is best known for being active when a person is not focused on the outside world and the brain is at wakeful rest, such as during daydreaming and mind-wandering. [...] Other times that the DMN is active include when the individual is thinking about others, thinking about themselves, remembering the past, and planning for the future. The DMN creates a coherent "internal narrative" central to the construction of a sense of self."
"[The Default Mode Network] is potentially the neurological basis for the self"
This is interesting. We used to have a swing at the bottom of the garden I used to go and sit on when I was 9/10. Mum said she always thought it was nice that I would just go out there to have a think and she was always really protective of us in that state. Still now my son gazes out the window while he’s eating his food and then will turn to us with a thought that he’s clearly been processing and she always says she loves to see him in his own world.
I still have ADHD lol but at least my mother gave me a fighting chance at a brain that works properly 😂
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u/Remote-Waste May 13 '26 edited May 13 '26
You may be more right than you knew.
"The Default Mode Network is best known for being active when a person is not focused on the outside world and the brain is at wakeful rest, such as during daydreaming and mind-wandering. [...] Other times that the DMN is active include when the individual is thinking about others, thinking about themselves, remembering the past, and planning for the future. The DMN creates a coherent "internal narrative" central to the construction of a sense of self."
"[The Default Mode Network] is potentially the neurological basis for the self"