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title: "Daydreaming in Humans and Computers"
authors:
  - "Erik T. Mueller"
  - "Michael G. Dyer"
doi: ""
url: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1985/51"
pdf: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1985/0051.pdf"
venue: "Proceedings of the Ninth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence"
year: 1985
pages: "278-279"
track: "Cognitive Modelling"
keywords:
---

# Daydreaming in Humans and Computers

Erik T. Mueller, Michael G. Dyer

*Proceedings of the Ninth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence*, pages 278-279.

## Abstract

This paper examines daydreaming: spontaneously recalling or imagining personal or vicarious experiences in the past or future. The following functions of daydreaming, for both humans and computers, are discussed: support for processes of creativity, future planning and rehearsal, learning from successes and failures, emotion modification, and motivation. A computational theory of daydreaming is being implemented and tested in a computer program called DAYDREAMER. A prototype version of DAYDREAMER which produces several daydreams (in English) is currently running.