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People Daydream Almost Half The Day, Harvard Study Wins

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"All our dreams come true, if we have the courage to pursue them." Walt E. Disney. Dreaming is something that everyone does, child and adult alike. Not everybody is the same. There are never going to be two people that are identical. Some people talk to themselves and some people daydream. Mitty is who he is and he should not be pitied for that. I feel as though he should be looked out for, but not pitied. He gets himself in danger such as when he speeds up in his car because of daydreaming. I believe that he needs family and good, loving friends around him to keep him safe. He should never quit dreaming though. We all do it.

Mitty is not unusual because all people daydream. “People Daydream Almost Half the Day, Harvard Study Finds” is an …show more content…

He is not handicapped in anyway, unless you are going to try and consider daydreaming a handicap. He can drive a car, go shopping, and carry on with life just as well as anyone else would be able to. He has a wife. She may be a shrew, but nonetheless, he has a wife. She may nag at him for forgetting, but everyone forgets things. In the “Forgetfulness is a Tool of the Brain”, article from the Daily News, it talks about how forgetting things is not at all bad because it means that your brain is functioning the way that it should. It is suppressing memories that it feels irrelevant and only remembering the important ones. So forgetting is just something all people do. Something that is average, just like Mitty.

After much thought about Mitty, I still feel as though he is just an average person. He may daydream more vividly than others, but in the end he can still talk, walk, and function just like everyone else can. He daydreams just as much as everyone else, studies show, and his forgetfulness is just showing how his brain functions like an average brain, so, overall, Mitty is just like the everyday

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