Daydreaming can be seen as dreaming awake - the person's thinking doesn’t happen willfully; it is left to the person's subconscious world. With individuals who don’t daydream, thinking only conforms to the surrounding events. Thoughts are no more than just a little more than what he/she sees, hears and feels. Ideas and imagination fail to develop because thinking is conformed to the environment (already seen) and to nothing else.

The illimitability of thoughts is what's positive about daydreaming and, therefore, what makes hyperactive dreamers more creative and more imaginative. Since they are led by their subconscious world, they fail to notice much of what is around them, which makes them inattentive and wander. The wandering mind provides them with the opportunity to look at the problem from another perspective and, in this way, they develop creative and uncommon solutions.