Journal 31: Daydreams

Usually, whenever I get bored, I daydream, or just let my mind wander. Which, I guess that

could be classified as daydreaming as well, but I do not really know the technical definition of daydream. Because I do not have a legit daydream that helped me solve a problem, I will use an example from Harry Potter, because many people are at least familiar with the generic story line of the book series.

In Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Harry is constantly getting dreams, which could be considered daydreams, inside of his head from Lord Voldemort. In one particular day dream, Harry is taking a wizarding test, and gets a vision of his godfather,

Sirius, being tortured by Voldemort. Actually, as I am remembering, I believe that Harry was actually asleep, so that would be an actual dream. But anyway, Harry has a vision/daydream/dream of his godfather being attacked and thus uses that as a basis of how he acts. As it turns out, he rounds up a bunch of his close friends, and together they sneak out of the school, get on broomsticks and thestrals, and fly to the Ministry of Magic, where Sirius is allegedly getting attacked. However, as the reader eventually finds out, Voldemort planted a fake vision into Harry's head, making him believe Sirius was truly being attacked, when really, Sirius was still at his house. But, Harry did receive a vision, and acted upon it, ultimately leading to his godfather's death, so things did not work out so well for Harry in the end.

That example there goes to show that even though Harry Potter is not exactly real and that scenario cannot exactly happen, people can still get the wrong idea inside of their heads, possibly from daydreaming in class, and then act upon it, causing problems. Those daydreams usually do not go as extreme as ending in the death of someone by dark magic, but even still, people can get the wrong idea or impression into their heads and just act on impulse, sometimes leading to situations that probably would not have happened in the first place.

So, although I do not daydream often, I can still find examples of people acting on impulse due to their own daydreams or visions.