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 The artwork ‘Melencolia I’, a 1514 engraving by the German Renaissance artist Albrecht Dürer. ‘A sixteenth-century interpretation of daydreaming, showing a melancholic, brooding figure lost in thought.’

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Alice Bishop, NGV Magazine, May 2021

Alice Bishop contemplates how becoming lost in thought can help us reconnect with ourselves and the world.

Research has shown that we daydream less as we age, yet that our brains are more active when we let our minds wander, sharpening them as essential, lifelong tools.

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