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Mind-Wandering as a Scientific Concept: Cutting through the Definitional Haze

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    Sleep is multidimensional, including aspects such as sleep quality and disturbances, sleep timing (e.g., bedtime/wake-up time), and sleepiness, simultaneously coexisting (Buysse, 2014; Wallace et al., 2019). Spontaneous cognition is also a multifaceted construct defined as spontaneously arising internal thoughts, such as personal concerns, future tasks, memories and pleasant fantasies that shift our mind away from the current task (Singer, 1974; Smallwood & Schooler, 2006, for other definition see Christoff, Mills, Andrews-Hanna, Irving, Thompson, Fox, & Kam, 2018). These forms of internal mentation are also known in the literature as mind wandering, daydreaming, and involuntary mental time travel (Berntsen, 2019; Seli et al., 2018).

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