Involuntary mental time travel into the future is often emotional (Barsics, Van der Linden, & D'Argembeau, 2016) and is perceived to help in decision‐making and action‐planning (D'Argembeau et al., 2011).
I never knew this and it is great to understand to have a better understanding of what you do involuntarily.
These studies consistently find that episodic memories contain greater sensory details and stronger feelings of traveling in time, whereas future thoughts have greater ratings of importance and emotional valence.
I cannot choose between what episodic type of I'd rather have.
methods to discern the everyday frequency of episodic counterfactual thoughts have not been employed.
I should be first on the list.
Past research has shown that mental time travel into the future is experienced frequently in everyday life (e.g. D'Argembeau, Renaud, & Van der Linden, 2011)
We are time traveling while we are blinking? or does it happen at a specific moment?
Keywords: episodic counterfactual thinking; episodic future thinking; episodic memory; mental time travel
These are all new terms to me but make perfect sense and speak for themselves.
To date, studies exploring the relationship of counterfactual thoughts with episodic memories and episodic future thoughts have focused mainly on voluntary mental time travel.
What happens if they don't agree is my question?