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Free Time: The Forgotten American Dream is a 2013 book by Benjamin Kline Hunnicutt on the connection between the American Dream and American leisure time. Bibliography
Attentional cycling is an adaptive function of daydreaming through which a person’s attention may cycle through multiple target problems at the same time, helping the individual remain positive. When people have a variety of goals, daydreaming can provide an opportunity for people to alternate across different streams of information and ...
A daydream is a visionary fantasy, especially one of happy, pleasant thoughts, hopes or ambitions, imagined as coming to pass, and experienced while awake. [114] There are many different types of daydreams, and there is no consistent definition amongst psychologists. [114] The general public also uses the term for a broad variety of experiences.
In psychology, fantasy is a broad range of mental experiences, mediated by the faculty of imagination in the human brain, and marked by an expression of certain desires through vivid mental imagery. Fantasies are generally associated with scenarios that are impossible or unlikely to happen.
Heroic and erotic daydreams or preconscious phantasies in both men and women were seen by Freud as providing substitute satisfactions for everyday deprivations; [4] and the same phantasies were in turn turned into shareable (public) artistic constructs by the creative writer, where they could serve as cultural surrogates for the universal ...
Suzanne Weyn (born 1955), author of children's and young adult science fiction and fantasy novels and numerous film novelizations; Chuck Whelon (born 1969) cartoonist and creator of the humorous fantasy webcomic serial "Pewfell" E. B. White (1899–1985), author of Charlotte's Web and Stuart Little
Lipstick on Your Collar is a 1993 British television serial written by Dennis Potter.It was first broadcast on Channel 4 in February and March 1993. Expanded from Potter's earlier television play Lay Down Your Arms (1970), it features Ewan McGregor in his first major role.
Free time, traditionally usually called leisure time or leisure, refers to the time when one is not working. It may also refer to: Free time (music), a type of musical meter free from musical time and time signature; Freetime, an album by Spyro Gyra; The Sims 2: FreeTime, The Sims 2 expansion pack