Assessing time spent in DD's

[roxanne]

Meghan mentioned figuring out how much time she spent DD'ing, and I would like to figure out for myself.  Also, would be interested in what others found.  But I'm not really sure how to do it.  Even assuming I'm lucid enough to do it, which I think I could manage, how do I separate?  Much, if not most, of my time is spent doing something while DD'ing.  Would you make 3 categories: DD time, real time & a combination?

Cordellia, did Cynthia address this or would she know?  I believe she is primarily a researcher so this would be right up her alley, and I believe she addressed this in her study.  Are you still in touch with her?  How does an individual assess how much actual time is spent in DD'ing?

[Cordellia Amethyste Rose]

I have no idea, but good luck with that.  I go in and out of daydream too frequently throughout the day to ever assess.  It's like asking me how many times I breathed in throughout the day.  It's my natural state.  Going into daydream is too natural for me to even notice let alone count.  I'm skeptical of the idea that anyone can make an accurate assessment of how much they daydream.

[Rashomon Effect]

I mentioned in a different post that I have begun using the stopwatch feature of my watch when I notice I have begun daydreaming. There have been a couple of time that the session of daydreaming halted immediately and a couple of times that I forgot about the stopwatch running.

Overall, this small amount of accountability for time spent daydreaming has been worth the effort. I makes me more mindful of daydreaming. I agree that daydreaming occurs while doing other things. If I make a conscious effort to start the stopwatch, it interrupts the daydream.

That is my goad: to reduce the amount of time I am daydreaming.

[roxanne]

My goal really is to asses the amount of time.  I agree with Cordellia that it will be really hard.  I guess I could start with registering the time I am not day dreaming - for instance on here; I guess talking about it is not the same as doing it.

The stop watch sounds interesting.  I think I have that feature on my pedometer but have never used it and don't know how.  Is yours' separate?

[Drake]

All my tme is spent in combination. There isn't a second where I'm not daydreaming usually.

[roxanne]

What would you consider being on-line?  It's true that the DD's aren't completely out of reach, but certainly in the back ground.

[roxanne]

I think I am going to start tonight at Midnight.  I wake up 2-5 times during night and DD solidly during wake times then.  I'd never get back to sleep otherwise.  I'm going to mark down any time that I am not DD'ing at all, or it's clearly in background, with just the sense that my "friends" are around me.  I may even make that into 2 separate categories.

[Rashomon Effect]

To me, tracking the actual time is not my objective. I would compare that to having a plumbing leak and being concerned with how many gallons per minute are slipping away. My objective it to stop the flow.  To be in control.

Some method of interrupting the dream and redirecting my thoughts is what I am trying to accomplish with the stop watch. It does not actually work as a way of assessing time spent daydreaming. Because as so many folks have mentioned, daydreams can run while we are doing other task. 

Let me also say, I appreciate this forum and feel  just discussing the topic with others is helping me already.

[debbie downer]

since you mentioned me, i figured i'd just copy and paste what i said before, just to have it here on this discussion-

 

"well. i sleep for 8 hours a night and there are 24 hours in the day. 24 - 8 = 16 hours that i'm awake. i wake up at 6 and daydream while i'm getting ready for school until i leave at 6:30, so that's 30 minutes. at school, i have 8 classes, and they're all 45 minutes long. so i guessed that i daydream for 15 minutes in each class (because i can't daydream when i'm busy, so i'm usually busy taking notes or something for the whole class except for 10 minutes), and 15 x 8 = 120, plus the 30 that i already daydreamed is 150. i get home from school at 3:00 and watch tv until 4 but usually i'm not paying attention, i'm just daydreaming. so that makes 210 minutes. then for the rest of the day i don't really pace around and daydream or lie down and daydream, i'll just do whatever i'm doing while daydreaming for a few minutes at a time while i'm doing it. then i do homework or go on the computer or something but i'll daydream for a few minutes at a time and i guessed that it all added up to 30 minutes, but sometimes when i'm doing homework i'll stop and daydream for like an hour... yeah, it's bad. but assuming it isn't one of those days, 30 minutes. so 200 minutes.  and i'll just add another hour and a half of daydreaming to cover how much i daydream for the rest of the day. :P so that makes 330 minutes that i'm daydreaming, and hours that i'm awake (16 x 60 = 960). 330 / 920 = 36. and i might daydream more, because i just guessed on everything and i don't really know how much i daydream for sure, so i just rounded it up to 40.

 

i daydream more in the summer when i don't have school, and less on days like today that i'm really busy and don't really have time to daydream. o:"

 

 

i totally just guessed the time i spent daydreaming. it may be more or less, i don't know. 40% is just a guess, it's not accurate. what if i carried around a stopwatch when i daydreamed and found out the actual time xD hahaha i bet that wouldn't work though. well... maybe it would. i don't know. maybe i should try it xD

[roxanne]

I'm starting tonight at Midnight, and I'm going to try to keep track.  No harm in trying.  I'm just keeping a pad & pen with me, even in bed.  I have a stop watch on my pedometer, but have never used it.  Any way, this will be my first try, and for some reason, I'm all excited.

[roxanne]

I did start last night at Midnight and guessed roughly 3 hours spent between Midn. & 8:15 AM DD'ing.  I actually have a body bug, however, I just retrieved.  Used to wear it daily to assess calories burned, etc.  You wear it 24 hours except when in shower.  It always amazed  me that it would tell me what I was doing at night: whether I was sleeping, lying down but not asleep (translate: DD'ing), or up.  So I'm going to wear this tonight to get a really accurate picture.  I know when I'm laying awake I'm DD'ing.  I believe 3 hours awake though was pretty typical for me.  So I'll do 2 days altogether.

[roxanne]

I actually assessed every 15 minutes what I had been doing, except when asleep.  I counted time as not spent DD'ing, if DD's were clearly in background.  I came up exactly 12 & 12.  I was in bed for 8 hours, asleep for 5 hours.  So 12 of 19 hours awake were spent DD'ing.  This was just 1 day, so I'm sure there is a lot of variance.  Anyone else want to do it?

[Laila]

@Roxanne: Were your results pretty much expected? I think I'd like to try what you're doing. Perhaps I'll begin in a couple of hours (at midnight) and see how it goes. I'd imagine that there would be a lot of variance though. I'm not planning to leave the house tomorrow, so... *expects a high number* xD