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This is Scientific Americans 60 Second Science.

I'm Karen Hopkin.

It happens to us all.

You might be reading a book or washing the dishes,

or maybe even listening to a podcast,

when suddenly you realize your mind was miles away.

Well, if you've ever wondered why the mind wanders,

you might want to pay attention to this. A new study shows that localized brain waves,

resembling those present when we fall asleep, are associated with brief interruptions

in our stream of consciousness. The findings appear in the journal Nature Communications.

Thomas Andreon of the Paris Brain Institute grew interested in the neural mechanisms that underlie

daydreaming while on an extended road trip with his wife.

We traveled for a year over three continents by car, accumulating long hours on difficult roads.

As time rolled slowly by, Andreon found his attention would stray from the road ahead.

Indeed, somewhere deep in Patagonia, I flipped our car on the roof.

Just because I was thinking about something else and reacted badly when getting back to the

real world.

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