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[โ€“] bluegreenpurplepink@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

There was a study done that discovered people with vivid imaginations would imagine they were doing a certain task that they needed to do, and their imagination of doing it was so powerful that their brain checked it off as being done. I wish I had the citation for this, but I can't find it.

So you get the satisfaction reward for accomplishing your tasks without actually doing them.

I think this mechanism explains some things.

[โ€“] not_IO@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 3 weeks ago

i sometimes literally don't know if i did something or if i just thought about it