India, April 8 -- From boring lectures to long meetings, zoning out is very common, when you stop paying attention to what's going on around you and stare into space, tuning out the external world for a bit. As you snap back, you might feel guilty for not paying attention. But it turns out it's not really something to be concerned about. In fact, these occasional moments of spacing out may actually benefit you more than you realise.

A study published in The Journal of Neuroscience explained that mind wandering isn't a bad thing and instead revealed how it has surprising benefits.

The researchers conducted an experiment where the participants were asked to do a computer-based task. But in reality, the task had secret patterns which the p...