The concept of daydreaming was introduced in the 1960s by the American psychologist Jerome Singer and, in short, it is a diversion of attention from the external stimuli or physical and mental tasks with which the individual is currently engaged to the inner psychic world. Most dreaming is done by young children who learn about the world and process it through daydreams. In middle age, our dreams usually deal with success, recognition and interpersonal relationships. Old age is no longer dreaming, but returning in memories to the past. And how is lucid dreaming useful? It improves mood and drives away boredom; in daydreaming we can plan the future without fear or limits, practice different situations, talk to others; daydreaming can relieve us in difficult life situations and psychotherapy cannot do without it.

Daydreaming also develops creativity and is partly related to brainstorming - we can imagine a problem in a different light, from a different perspective, release inhibitions and find a new way of solving it. Research has shown that individuals with positive, future-oriented dreams are more creative. The writers Virginia Woolf and James Joyce, the painters Marc Chagall and Jan Zrzavý, the directors Jan Švankmajer and Tim Burton - these are just a fraction of the artists who have found and continue to find inspiration in daydreaming.

Let us indulge in conscious dreaming, let us allow ourselves to yearn. Let's look at ordinary things and try to describe them in an extraordinary language, let's play with images, let our imagination run wild, let's put ourselves in the shoes of a film character, let's direct our own music video for a favourite song. We can dream anywhere, at home, in the street, in nature (just not while driving). We can dream in silence, or listen to music, with our eyes closed, or watch the clouds. To speak with Bachelard, concrete idealization "sustains the warmth of the heart that gives real dynamism to life." Dreaming makes us better able to cope with life. That is why we dream dreams and create them ourselves.

The photostories were taken for us by photographer Lucie Urban in the One Take studio in Brno. To the strains of music we dreamed of the smell of spring, decorated ourselves with flowers, looked forward to the colours, gentle sun rays and new beginnings and inspiration that the awakening nature will bring.