Albert Einstein is such a well known scientist to this day Shocking enough he was once caught daydreaming In fact he was failing math and almost kicked out of his college for daydreaming Little did people know his daydreaming is what helped him achieve so much success and made him the well known scientist he is today He even mentioned that by gazing into the sunbeams on a hot summer day he discovered the theory of relativity One of our well known activist Martin Luther King daydreamed to create visions for the future He said he would have to mentally remove himself for his present and daydream to get away and think about a better place to be in I know you're probably asking yourself are daydreams and dreams the same Are they different After researching I ve come to find out they are completely different Daydreams are dreams you can control and sleeping dreams are dreams you cannot Many people may think daydreams happen unintentionally which can imitate sleeping dreams but that's not the case Researchers suggest that people begin to zone out and daydream on purpose Blaszczak Boxe September 2016 In their study they ve found that most people who are asked to complete a simple task start to let their minds wander on purpose because they know that by not paying attention to what they are doing it won't hurt their performance