When I daydream, I straight up RUN. Outside. In the house. Anywhere I have the privacy and ability to do so. It drives my family nuts sometimes, but they’ve gotten used to it and they understand why I do it.
At a job I had where I was allowed to listen to music or books on tape all day, I would literally daydream so much I would disassociate almost the entire day and almost feel like nothing was real by the end of the day. There are certain songs that remind me strongly of certain people I've had obsessions with, whether they were real people I knew or celebrities or characters, or whatever.
Oh, and once in middle school, I got so lost in daydreaming I literally didn't hear the last bell ring, didn't notice everybody packing up and leaving, didn't notice the teacher had gone and suddenly found myself alone in the room and realized I had missed the bus.
I do a lot of the same things. I pace a LOT. I’m in a full time RV family and I pace lines into the dirt. I link certain daydreams with certain songs. I get so lost in my daydreams that my facial expressions mimic the characters, I get seriously embarrassed and offended by the things that happen when the situation involves me. I take characters from books I’ve read, or TV shows I’ve watched, and I edit the scenes like a movie. I do all these things, obsessively. Constantly. But... it’s not a hinderance. I can write it all down, communicate it. It makes me want to be an Animator, which is perfect since it’s repetitive drawing the same thing slightly different over and over while keeping the finished product in mind. I can do it while folding laundry, or dishes. Any mundane task. In fact, the only con I can list for my case is that I hardly ever daydream anything entirely good. Usually it’s an extreme bad, like someone being murdered or me murdering someone, but something good comes from it in the end. It I focus on the suffering of characters from the low points of a movie. So... am I a Maladaptive Daydreamer?
There is a chance that it could be immersive daydreaming. The biggest tell would be the fact that it isn't disrupting your day. You are able to do your everyday tasks. With maladaptive daydreaming, reality just stops and you just completely forget to do your everyday tasks. I am a student so I find it hard to study, I also find it hard to watch videos on UA-cam, I find it hard to do a lot of my mundane tasks because it is quite intrusive. Don't take my word for it, but try and research immersive daydreaming.
Omg, I relate to this so much! I constantly pace around my kitchen table or up and down the hallway, in a trance like state. Or sit in stare at nothing, barely blinking. And the one about sleep! A few days ago I went to bed at midnight and couldn't fall asleep until 3 am because I couldn't find someplace to stop my daydreaming. I was tired as hell and just wanted to sleep but I couldn't.
When I was in kindergarten-4th grade I would just walk in circles at recess thinking about inventions and doing fun stuff everyday sometimes I would be so sucked into it my teachers couldn't snap me out of it unless they like snapped there fingers
When I daydream, I straight up RUN. Outside. In the house. Anywhere I have the privacy and ability to do so. It drives my family nuts sometimes, but they’ve gotten used to it and they understand why I do it.
At a job I had where I was allowed to listen to music or books on tape all day, I would literally daydream so much I would disassociate almost the entire day and almost feel like nothing was real by the end of the day. There are certain songs that remind me strongly of certain people I've had obsessions with, whether they were real people I knew or celebrities or characters, or whatever.
Oh, and once in middle school, I got so lost in daydreaming I literally didn't hear the last bell ring, didn't notice everybody packing up and leaving, didn't notice the teacher had gone and suddenly found myself alone in the room and realized I had missed the bus.
I do a lot of the same things.
I pace a LOT. I’m in a full time RV family and I pace lines into the dirt.
I link certain daydreams with certain songs.
I get so lost in my daydreams that my facial expressions mimic the characters, I get seriously embarrassed and offended by the things that happen when the situation involves me.
I take characters from books I’ve read, or TV shows I’ve watched, and I edit the scenes like a movie.
I do all these things, obsessively. Constantly.
But... it’s not a hinderance. I can write it all down, communicate it. It makes me want to be an Animator, which is perfect since it’s repetitive drawing the same thing slightly different over and over while keeping the finished product in mind.
I can do it while folding laundry, or dishes. Any mundane task.
In fact, the only con I can list for my case is that I hardly ever daydream anything entirely good. Usually it’s an extreme bad, like someone being murdered or me murdering someone, but something good comes from it in the end. It I focus on the suffering of characters from the low points of a movie.
So... am I a Maladaptive Daydreamer?
There is a chance that it could be immersive daydreaming. The biggest tell would be the fact that it isn't disrupting your day. You are able to do your everyday tasks. With maladaptive daydreaming, reality just stops and you just completely forget to do your everyday tasks. I am a student so I find it hard to study, I also find it hard to watch videos on UA-cam, I find it hard to do a lot of my mundane tasks because it is quite intrusive. Don't take my word for it, but try and research immersive daydreaming.
Since i was young i had a very strong imagination soo i used to (literally) live in my own world
I still do now and this helps me with my daydreams
Omg, I relate to this so much! I constantly pace around my kitchen table or up and down the hallway, in a trance like state. Or sit in stare at nothing, barely blinking. And the one about sleep! A few days ago I went to bed at midnight and couldn't fall asleep until 3 am because I couldn't find someplace to stop my daydreaming. I was tired as hell and just wanted to sleep but I couldn't.
Haha, for a long time i thought i was crazy
Now i know i am
Same😂😂
When i daydream i start walking around the room in circular motions very rapidly until my legs hurt and i start sweating sooo much
When I was in kindergarten-4th grade I would just walk in circles at recess thinking about inventions and doing fun stuff everyday sometimes I would be so sucked into it my teachers couldn't snap me out of it unless they like snapped there fingers
omg i do almost all of that im not alone
I also do all of those things!
I’ve bene having the same plot for 5 years
I relate to all of these and so much more. thank you for the video.
I wish i could lower the music volume, because i will regret everything in a few years if i don't 😬
I flip a pillow when I do it and when I don’t do it I my brain tingles I do it for hours and talk to myself
thank you for making this! I relate.
anyway sick hair my homie
Fucking relatable 🖤🖤🖤
I can relate to all of this.. MDD