This reminds me of something I've noticed about myself but never understood.
On the occasions that I find myself actively sitting and engaging in
farfetched daydreaming about fishing, *i.e. picturing myself pulling in fish
after fish ( see told you it was a dream ) ............ I'm almost always
nymph fishing !! * * I don't even really care for nymph fishing, so why
would my brain choose to make it my daydream method of choice?

You know, I'm pretty much the same way. Well, at least in the
daydream, the fly is always under water and I start with the hook up.
So, mayhaps that your daydream is really using dries but you're always
starting with the hook up (and the fish has sucked down the fly).
Frank Reid
(who's not a daydream dry fly purist, but I'm definately not catching
4" blue gill)