ABSTRACT
Daydreaming has been rediscovered by brain researchers, and is perhaps about to be rescued from the contempt it, too, has had to endure. The "stream of consciousness" by William James, and also known as "undirected, unintended thought," or mind wandering or following a train of thought, daydreaming shares a basic attribute with its "sister" awareness, focused concentration: both are disconnected from whatever is taking place externally. Humans have to walk on Mars, but we have sent ahead several "awareness-feeding" (and "Deep Travel–inducing") human capabilities, including binocular vision and motion. Standing in the diorama's glow—admittedly an unusual point of departure for an inquiry—the author set off on a backward journey with the hunch that recent discoveries about human origins can be the reasonably precise guidelines for pinpointing a "start date" for humanity's Deep Travel awareness.
