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A true model of daydreaming needs to explain the common occurrence of unrealisable or fantastic waking fantasies, not ignore their occurrence. In fact, the ‘responsible young homemaker’ daydream is more an example of Singer’s own fantasy than anything like a woman’s daydream. Who gets the emotional reaction upon linking a homemaker ‘daydreaming’ about how to convince her responsible husband to buy a new washing machine with the denial that she could be fantasying about a handsome stranger? Certainly not the homemaker, she’s just stuck with thoughts about getting a babysitter.

A true model of daydreaming needs to explain the common occurrence of unrealisable or fantastic waking fantasies, not ignore their occurrence. In fact, the ‘responsible young homemaker’ daydream is more an example of Singer’s own fantasy than anything like a woman’s daydream. Who gets the emotional reaction upon linking a homemaker ‘daydreaming’ about how to convince her responsible husband to buy a new washing machine with the denial that she could be fantasying about a handsome stranger? Certainly not the homemaker, she’s just stuck with thoughts about getting a babysitter.

In one of the retrospective reports scattered throughout the work, Varendonck recounts an experience he had while in bed at night, which concerned an apparent waking fantasy about obtaining the proper punishment of a fellow worker. The day’s events had included an altercation with an orderly in a military hospital where Varendonck worked. The Major Models of Daydreaming 39 The orderly had brought a request from the head nurse, but ‘spoke and behaved so impolitely that (Varendonck) flatly refused to grant it,’ (1921: 75).

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