{"id":1194,"date":"2009-02-27T11:35:28","date_gmt":"2009-02-27T11:35:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.doodlersanonymous.com\/?p=3544"},"modified":"2022-12-19T13:43:58","modified_gmt":"2022-12-19T18:43:58","slug":"doodle-recall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.doodlersanonymous.com\/doodle-recall\/","title":{"rendered":"Doodle Recall"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As a kid, I was constantly in trouble for daydreaming in class. To this day, my dad asks me with sincere curiosity, &#8220;where did your mind wander off to everyday?&#8221;\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I still daydream habitually, but now when I catch my mind wandering I make sure to grab the closest paper around and start drawing the thoughts in my head. It&#8217;s like I&#8217;m trying to capture them before they escape. It is most likely the reason I&#8217;m a creative director during my day job and starting websites like this one with my remaining time.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you embrace it when your mind diverts off course, you will discover a whole new area of ideas and creativity. <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/health\/7912671.stm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">This article<\/a> talks a bit about that, both for and against daydreaming and doodling.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Experts said doodling stopped people from daydreaming, which was a more taxing diversion, and so was good at helping people focus on mundane tasks.&#8221; &#8212;  BBC News, <em>Doodling &#8216;may help memory recall&#8217;<\/em>\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mr_burning\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mr. Burning<\/a> (who doodled the above) for heads up on the article.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you embrace it when your mind diverts off course, you will discover a whole new area of ideas and creativity. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":18389,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3953],"tags":[1835],"views":149,"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/www.doodlersanonymous.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/02272009114114427657.jpg",500,373,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.doodlersanonymous.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/02272009114114427657-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.doodlersanonymous.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/02272009114114427657-300x224.jpg",300,224,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.doodlersanonymous.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/02272009114114427657.jpg",500,373,false],"large":["https:\/\/www.doodlersanonymous.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/02272009114114427657.jpg",500,373,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.doodlersanonymous.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/02272009114114427657.jpg",500,373,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.doodlersanonymous.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/02272009114114427657.jpg",500,373,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"OKAT","author_link":"https:\/\/www.doodlersanonymous.com\/author\/okat\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"If you embrace it when your mind diverts off course, you will discover a whole new area of ideas and creativity.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.doodlersanonymous.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1194"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.doodlersanonymous.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.doodlersanonymous.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.doodlersanonymous.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.doodlersanonymous.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1194"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.doodlersanonymous.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18391,"href":"https:\/\/www.doodlersanonymous.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1194\/revisions\/18391"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.doodlersanonymous.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.doodlersanonymous.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.doodlersanonymous.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.doodlersanonymous.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}