Melamun Can Have A Good Impact, Here's How To Do It Right
JAKARTA - Melamun is a condition when the mind does not focus on the environment, but on the imagination, memory, or wishful thinking of the future. This activity is often considered a waste of time and is useless, even though it is not always like that.
Marriage therapist and family, Saba Lurie, says that daydreaming can have a good impact, including for brain health. Allowing wandering thoughts can trigger creativity, reduce stress, and help imagine a hopeful scenario.
"Throughout can include a lot of experience, but basically we daydream, we are letting the mind travel elsewhere," said Saba Lurie, quoted from Real Simple, on Wednesday, October 1, 2025.
"Raising makes room for new ideas to emerge without us forcing the brain to focus on certain tasks," he added.
Melamun can also function as a moment to improve, especially if you have experienced certain traumas in the past. By daydreaming, someone can come out for a moment from the trauma.
Sometimes daydreaming also serves as a mechanism for improvement, especially if we have experienced trauma or feel overwhelmed. Melamun can seem to take us out of the moment now to another place, and this can provide benefits," he explained.
However, daydreaming can also have a negative impact, such as disruption of focus and decreased productivity. Therefore, daydreaming must be done with direction.
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Melamun yang produktif biasanya fokus pada solusi atau bersifat generatif. Bentuknya bisa berupa memangkirakan bagaimana menghadapi percakapan sulit, memvisualisasi keberhasilan, atau membiarkan pemikiran membulkap iden kreat sebuah proyek.
This type of daydreaming brings good benefits, whether solving problems, stress relievers, or finding new inspiration. To get it, then dreamy directions to create ideas, imagine the ideal future, and strengthen valuable memories.
Saba Lurie also reminded not to get caught up in unhealthy daydream activities, which make you fall into a negative mindset. Wearing this type is usually repetitive and triggers anxiety, so if you experience it, it should be stopped.
Being unproductive is usually repetitive, triggering anxiety, or escaping in a way that makes us trapped, "concluded Saba Lurie.