Brilliant people do it all the time: They let their minds wander into a day-dreamy state to solve a problem. Science says a wandering mind can come up with solutions, according to the November ’08 Health. “The right hemisphere—the sensory part of the brain that’s activated when you daydream—has more wider-reaching branches, so it has the power to make the less obvious associations,” says Mark Jung-Beeman, Ph.D., a neuroscientist at Northwestern University. According to him, the best way to daydream is to go where there is very little outside stimulation and think pleasant thoughts. IM
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