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New research from America’s Harvard University shows people spend nearly half of their waking hours daydreaming, and not thinking about what they are actually doing. Moreover, they say this mind wandering is a sign of unhappiness. The study, to be published in the journal Science, surveyed the thoughts and moods of over 2,200 volunteers. The participants downloaded an iPhone app and sent more than 250,000 messages during the day and night. Researchers Matthew Killingsworth and Daniel Gilbert conclude that most of us are in another world for more than 46 percent of our waking hours, and that means we are unhappy. “A human mind is a wandering mind, and a wandering mind is an unhappy mind,” they said.

Dr Killingsworth said mind-wandering was ubiquitous(普遍存在的) across all activities in our daily lives. His study found that we are the most happiest when exercising or chatting with friends and the most unhappiest when working or using our computer at home. He added, "Mind-wandering is an excellent predictor of people's happiness, and that our mental lives are filled, to a remarkable degree, by the non-present. ” Professor Gilbert believes daydreaming is one of the things that make us human. He said, “Unlike other animals, human beings spend a lot of time thinking about what is not going on around them, contemplating events that happened in the past, might happen in the future or will never happen at all.”