Brain Waves Help Answer The Question Of Where Do Our Minds Wander by Pooja Shete on January 21, 2021 at 1:39 PM Some people fail at meditation because their minds are rarely still. The question arises about where our minds roam. The researchers have come up with a way to track the flow our internal thought processes and signal if our minds are focused, fixated or wandering. The research led by UC Berkeley is published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The brain activity was measured by using an electroencephalogram (EEG) while the people performed dull and boring attention tasks. The researchers were able to identify