5 Signs It's Maladaptive Daydreaming, NOT Just Daydreaming
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- Опубліковано 26 вер 2024
- Daydreams are welcome, inspiring, and at times refreshing, but there is a flipside-maladaptive daydreams. Maladaptive daydreams are frequent daydreams that are intrusive and disruptive. They can be so distracting that they can take you out of reality. At times, maladaptive daydreams can occur because of sensory stimuli or real-life events. So what exactly is maladaptive daydreaming? Here are a few signs.
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Are you a day dreamer? Comment below.
yes definitely! 😅
Yes 100 percent yes
I actually am!
Yes i daydream alot
yeep
I just want to add a note: as a maladaptive daydreamer, I do know what’s real and what’s not. In fact, knowing my daydreams are fake and will never exist is a major source of depression for me. So saying maladaptive daydreamers can’t tell the difference between reality and their daydreams is technically false. Not just in my case, but that’s the definition of MD. If you can’t tell the difference between reality and your dreams, then it’s delusional and ends up being psychosis. MDer’s CAN tell the difference between reality and their dreams, which is what differentiates them from someone who’s psychotic.
Not only that, MDer’s wouldn’t typically interact with their daydreams in from of other people. They’re typically very careful not to let anyone know of how they spend their time (aka, daydreaming). It’s a very secretive and at times, shameful-feeling disorder. Just thought I’d drop my two cents here to help educate people!
Yup! This exactly. It’s not something I’d ever really want people to know about and when I’m doing it in public I try to keep it low-key so I don’t get weird looks. It hurts knowing my worlds and daydreams will never be real. I wanna be with them so bad. 😭
thanks for correcting the false facts about MD in this vid i appreciate it
Yep. I can always tell when my daydreams are fake or not.
Interesting...
THANK YOU! I was agreeing with everything in the video except for the not being able to tell which is real or which is a daydream… So I was like *“so am I not a maladaptive daydreamer?”* When not on my phone I literally pace and daydream for hours or sit in bed and stare at nothing and daydream for hours
my daydreaming is so extreme I lost touch with reality and make up storys so much.I even zone out every minute and make face expressions.I don't notice that I make face expression but my family does notice them.They think it's hilarious.Its embarrassing for me tho.It's hard to get rid of my maladaptive daydreaming.I've been daydreaming since I was 9 or younger.
Well my technique is just thinking about my life as one of those stories i like to make up a lot
Me too
I can't focus in class because I'm daydreaming about the zombie apocalypses or living in the Legend of Zelda universe
I've been called out on whispering to myself a couple of times, and I'm often told I have different facial expressions, it used to be more "what are you smiling at?" but now it's more "why do you look sad?" and it does consistently reflect with the daydreams
It is reassuring to know I'm not the only one with this, and it's an actual THING rather than just me being strange
@@theweirdestfish9962 I can relate 👍
@@thelmainoah same!
Same
See here's the thing, I have full control over what I daydream and can snap out so I don't get caught looking like a psycho but I know its meladaptive daydreaming that I have. I also know this is something new that researchers are looking into. Awesome video though. I related to all the symptoms on many different levels.
I’m with you on knowing my daydreams aren’t real, but they definitely feel real to the point of emotional and physical reactions. Most of them involve real people in my life, but again, I know the difference between the reality of when I’m with those people and what is in my head. I have caught myself a few times (for a few seconds) when I daydream out loud, but most of the time I have a good handle on it.
I didn’t know it was maladaptive daydreaming, but I’m also not surprised and have always thought it was a bit odd.
I have lost hours and have experienced the insomnia daydreaming, but I also know where I am when I stop or need to break the fantasies.
Anyways, I’m glad there are others that are aware of what is happening and can tell the difference between them and real life.✌️
@@chanellebozora2181 yeah definitely. Mine involve fictional characters from books or movies or ones that I've created in my head or they are scenarios that will never ever happen like me punching someone for a comment they made which is how im always aware of it being fake but I do definitely feel all the emotions and stuff that come with it especially when I'm alone in my room.
Same here, Erica! I've been doing this for a VERY LONG TIME. We're talking decades. I always thought I was the only person who did this. I recently learned within the past couple of years from a therapist the term 'maladaptive daydreaming' and that i have it. What a relief to know I'm not the only person who does it. I've always been able to control when I daydream and when I need to 'snap out' of it. I do not confuse my daydreams with reality-I know the difference. I'm grateful I can control both. However, it has negatively affected me in other ways. MANY times I prefer to spend my time with my daydreams rather than socialize with actual people. (It works out well thanks to my husband's weird work schedule) It dramatically affects my sleep as well. I also have OCD (diagnosed by a doctor, not self diagnosed). According to my therapist, those with OCD seem to have a higher chance of maladaptive daydreaming. I've been given some suggestions to try to overcome the MD. Its a slow process. Doesn't happen overnight. And truth be told, I'm not 100% ready to stop doing it. Anyway, you're not alone. I know exactly how you feel. I count us lucky that we're able to start/stop it when necessary.
same here too
Yo!
It seems like we are not alone! ^^
I also can understand that I am daydreaming and pretty much never mistake my daydreams for the reality.
Maybe that is just because most of my daydreams are way too Fantastic, and usually involving fictional characters... so it wouldn't make any sense to think they are real.
Also, usually I don't lose much control over the time I spend daydreaming, unless I am actually alone and have nothing else to do... only then I allow myself to go all out! XD
Too much of a good thing is bad in every social situation and this is no different. Thanks for bringing awareness to this type of maladaptive coping mechanism 💛
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I can shtap any time I wantsh!
Yes, just like water, it's useful for many things such as: cleaning yourself, cleaning your car, etcetera
And even (this is the too much) drowning people
Edit: oh wait that might have been a bit of a shallow joke
Gurl I see you everywhere 👀 we must have the same algorithm 💅
you are everywhere
Timestamps:
0:54 - Daydreaming blackouts
1:44 - Extremely Vivid Daydreams
2:32 - Living the Daydream Out Loud
3:17 - The Daydreaming Evicts Night Dreaming
4:00 - Lucid Daydreaming
Hope this helps!
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I have this 😳
@@ivythealiencat Oh well😳
Always thought I was crazy 🥲
thanks captain! 🙏🙏
I daydream a lot but I always know that I’m daydreaming. Sometimes I lose track of time, but I’m aware that’s it probably been a while, and I just choose not to stop.
But my daydreams are always more fantasy-like, involving characters inserted into my own life, or me inserted into a their worlds. It doesn’t happen too often, but occasionally I spend from 30mins up to 3-4 hours daydreaming a vivid story, and I’m always very emotionally invested in it. I don’t talk out loud but I often make facial expressions, laugh, and even cry.
I also tend to daydream for a long time in the morning, or at night as I’m falling asleep.
And even for periods when I’m not daydreaming, I often think of the stories and characters and when I can get back around to daydreaming again. I’m very emotionally attached to some of these characters, and they almost feel like real people to me.
I feel like my experience is nowhere near bad enough for me to be diagnosed with maladaptive daydreaming, but I feel like it’s more than just regular daydreaming and I’m not sure what to describe it as
I relate so much.. i did search it up once.. apparently it's called immersive daydreaming..
It's much more than just daydreams..
@@a_fluffy_cotton thank you I looked it up and it makes so much sense
Mostly relatable
Interesting...
OMG I DO THE EXACT SAME THINGS IVE NEVER SEEN ANYONE ELSE DESCRIBE THIS BUT THIS IS EXACTLY HOW I FEEL
When I was a kid/teenager daydreams was like a hobbie to me. This video helped me to undestand that that usually happend probably because of the domestic violence cycles I experienced because of my father. Now I still have daydreams, but not to escape from the world, but for the oppositive, to help me better concretize my goals :)
Interesting thing, daydreaming is actually my storytelling method... Except I'm telling those stories to myself lol. Whenever I get bored, I can start daydreaming about random stories that usually don't have me or anybody I know, just characters semi-representing me or things I know. And that one thing where people act things in their daydreams out irl, it happens to me sometimes, but in my opinion, it just makes imagining my kind of stories easier
Yeah same
What kind of stories do you make up?
@@Psych2go I'm somewhat of a writer, so I make up stories with the characters I have
Heyyy! We have a similar experience!
Same lmaoo
0:55 Daydreaming blackouts.
1:45 Extremely vivid daydreams.
2:30 Living the daydream out loud.
3:18 The daydreaming evicts night dreaming.
4:00 Lucid dreaming.
Thanksss
@@vrinda7498 Yeah.
I am experiencing maladaptive daydreaming, and it is... I don't know how to describe it. Even while typing this comment out, I'm already having the scenarios in my head that I usually do, the voices and all that. I gesture and talk and walk around while in my daydreams, and sometimes it feels like I need to escape from the daydream in order to be in the real world again, but my mind won't let me stop always slipping back into voicing a sentence out loud or moving my hands according to what I am seeing. I am seeing the daydreams so vividly in front of my inner eyes - it's not as if I am LITERALLY seeing these things happen, but I also don't notice anything around me really, and only see what is happening in my brain (if that makes sense). It makes it difficult to sleep or get out of bed since I am always "in the zone" for daydreaming, and it's so... alive. The voices, the facial expressions, even what I feel when I imagine being touched, or doing certain things. It's hard to explain without sounding either as if I am making things up for attention, or people thinking I'm hallucinating or something. But it's a real issue, because I know I am using it as a way to escape, but sometimes I literally can not fight against the daydream, even if they are horrible scenarios I'm experiencing, like when I thought my ex may leave me (I mean he eventually did), I was seeing and hearing and feeling these scenarios as to why every single day multiple times, without being able to retain myself from being engaged in them. It's hard to explain, as I said. But I also don't know how to talk to a therapist about it. I am leaving behing school work, my hobbies, eating etc, just because I am always slipping into a daydream. I have to hold back the urge to act them out every time I'm around people. I was in so, so many situations in which I was extremely confused and scared because I could not remember if I talked to someone about something, or if I had imagined it, and multiple times I had to act situations out again and again in different ways to feel secure and prepared for whatever life throws at me.
But the daydreams give me a sense of relief as well... Which is probably why I can't stop, and am scared to get help. The feeling of being loved, accepted, of being stronger than I actually am, having a more interesting life, etc. It's a curse that you can't stop indulging in, which sucks
Maybe someone else feels this as much as I do, I feel really alone in this
Holy shit you just described what I’ve been experiencing. I used to tell my parents about this and they would always assume I was trolling or just bored.
you just described my hole life, it's nice to know that there are so many people out there feeling the same way as me, hope you are good!
Same I experience it too ..
Since my childhood
@DarkSmiley
Rule no.1 : Avoid listening to songs completely
Rule no. 2: Avoid sitting in places where you tend to day dream
Rule no. 3: This is very important " Don't do multi tasking"
Follow these Rules for 2 weeks you will see the difference.
Interesting... Thanks for sharing!
As a full fledge maladaptive daydreamer I can say one thing that was a little off about this topic your discussing; and that was explaining how a maladaptive daydreamer wouldn't be able to decipher reality from fantasy...that's not quite the case (well from personal experience). From what I read upon Maladaptive daydreamers can tell the difference (reality between fantasy), kind of like we have awareness from that!
Other than that this was a really awesome video helping explain and giving awareness about this thing some of us do!!! Luv your videos!!! XD XD
Thank you for the feedback :) We will let the team know
hey i just found out that my daydreams arent adhd or autism. and i often animate my day dreams. do you use your maladaptive day dream,ing to help you see scenes for your animationss?
@@Anim8ercrush Oh yea, definitely, they help me think of scenes and epic storys and stuff!
Its my form of Dis-Association and I prefer daydreaming rather than watching a movie by far😳🤣
@@forzenfukuroanimations i wil subscribe in celebration of learning i not alone
sometimes i imagine a scenario and it feels so real that my brain tricks me into thinking that was a real memory because of how vivid the day dream was, its weird
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Right?? Then you wake up and have to reevaluate what is real and what isn't...
@@Psych2go yesss fr
I used to be a maldaptive daydreamer. Music was a trigger. I kept the two together. I still daydream as a coping mechanism. Very sad.
I can highly relate with you🥺
Maladaptive daydreaming is something that I've been going through for years I recently realized how bad it is but I feel like I'm in too deep into it so I can't get out. It's fun. I won't lie but I'm loosing touch with reality and I can feel the bond between me and reality shifting away. :/
Join us in the dimensions between
Just asking, is there more detailed definitions for maladaptive daydreaming? Like is there minor maladaptive daydreaming, as in you have some symptoms but its not that serious, or major maladaptive daydreaming where it affects your life seriously?
For me, I don’t have symptoms like daydreaming blackouts and I’m aware of how long I spend daydreaming. Also, if I read a really interesting part of a book or video game, then I get a huge urge to go into my room and daydream about that scene. If it’s daytime then I pace around in circles for a usually an hour (but sometimes more) before feeling… satisfied? and I can get back to real life. But usually when its nighttime I don’t sleep until its because I’m daydreaming, then when I check the clock its 7am and im not even that tired. I only maladaptive daydream when I’m alone though, when I’m on a call with a friend or outside then I dont daydream. Is this some sort of minor maladaptive daydreaming, because I dont have symptoms as serious as in the video?
Since maladaptive daydreaming isn’t an official diagnosis there’s little to no research on it. There’s no severe or mild or minor to compare. Honestly It’s really complicated since there’s a lot of different experiences and it’s hard to determine if anything is a symptom of maladaptive or not.
wow, i have the exact same experience. I think the difference between us is that I used my daydreams to create fanfics 😅
you probably have immersive daydreaming!
Hi, I used to be in a Facebook group founded for exchanging our experiences and seeking support (Eli Somer was also a member, he is the very scientist that create the name for the condition).
So, to answer your question, many people on the group wondered whether they had the condition or not and the answer was "the point of Maladaptive D is that SHOULD BE Maladaptive, thus a problem for your daily life, cause you are not able to control it. If you don't experience it as a problem, but just an activity you enjoy and control, then it's not it".
They also said that there is indeed a spectrum, as nothing is black and white, there are those severe conditions that prof Somer studies (caused by major trauma) or milder ones, shared by most of us on that group.
Hope this helped. Take care
i do the same thing, but not walking in circles, i just start jumping to daydream. i thought i was the only one and that i was going insane. this comment made me feel better :)
So that’s what was going on with my Great-Aunt Hester. After her husband died she would sit on the porch, walk around the yard, or sit in her room, & talk to Uncle Charlie. She got to a point of not caring if anyone saw or heard her talking to him.
We used to say Uncle Charlie’s ghost is back. We didn’t tease her about it. We just accepted that she had her own way of dealing with grief. It made her happy.
I actually don’t think that’s maladaptive. That just seems like an extremely unhealthy coping mechanism. She’s wasn’t accepting the fact he died and brought him back the best way she could. Unfortunately it’s a little common in grief
THAT WAS VERY KIND OF YOU, BLESS YOU 🌹
I really don't think that is maladaptive daydreaming. I am not saying that 100% I am no expert , but that def seems to be something else , MUCH more concerning.
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Maybe not, but she’s passed on too so … 🤷♀️
It's really disturbing especially when you zone out and feel disconnected from reality sometimes it's scary is that common to all of you ?
And sometimes you can't tell if you're remembering a memory or it is just a dream or imagination
Furthermore , sometimes i keep making a conversation and imagining a situation and talking to myself as if i'm the other persons haha
Do you feel you might be dissociating?
Yes and you feel so alone when you realize the charachters in your head aren't even real or the moments happening in it
Talking to yourself can be healthy and can play a role in introspection furthering understanding of ones self, but if handled incorrectly such things can have detrimental effects if it becomes over indulgent or over compensative.
I somewhat regularly run scenarios in my head while doing mundane tasks, these vary in realism and detail but I rarely if ever loose sight of reality or have a disconnect but perhaps I don’t become fully immersed.
I get this too! Its very disturbing and weird to deal with, I have a hard time knowing what events or conversations specifically actually happened throughout the day and what was just my imagination.
@@Psych2go i was searching since a year now , and your videos especially made me realize i maybe have depersonalization
The situation is much more complicated than just zoning out and that's so scary
Another episode of my favorite hobby is a mental disorder 😗✌🏽
Is it maladaptive?
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@@Psych2go looking at these videos and doing personal research I believe it is, I wouldn’t want to self diagnose but I’ve made this entire alternative reality that’s based on my real life but it’s “perfect”. I started doing it in 2020 when I was in quarantine
@@MayaPapayaaaa_ SAME I STARTED IN 2020 BC OF QUARANTINE AND HOW LONELY I WAS NOW ITS UNSTOPPABLE AND I KEEP DOING IT SINCE
Same lmao it's very fun and comforting
Around 6 months ago, I got a psychologist bc of personal events. One time, during our last few sessions (my family didn't have the money to keep letting me go), I brought up the fact that I thought I had maladaptive daydreaming disorder. Not intensely, but I make facial expressions and rock back and forth whenever I'm in my head, sometimes I forget that something didn't actually happen, I lose track of time, and I can't go for more than like, a few days without listening to music to create fictional scenarios/imaginary edits with. When I told her about this, she said maladaptive daydreaming wasn't a real thing. That REALLY messed with my head because I had heard about it a lot from people on the internet (I know, I know, don't believe everything you see online), but this REALLY helped me be fully aware that it is, in fact, a real thing. Thank you, Psych2Go!
Damn, you must have thought maladaptive daydreaming wasn't real and it was a lie created by the daydreams to cope about your daydreams.
@@CalvinNoire Pretty much
It's truly wonderful that you making videos and putting effort daily just for others to have a better life. can't thank you enough! Keep up the good work ❤
Thanks for your support!
I am always day dreaming, 24/7, never stop. I like it, I like it when I zone from reality. It's a nice feeling, it makes me feel safe. Everything is gone, I am with {day-dream guy in my head that I see life of} every second in my head, I live through him. Why? I don't know. I feel not alone, I have somebody there. 3 people to be exact, they aren't me, they are other people, and I live their lives. I feel their feelings. This probably isn't the best thing, it's probably a bad thing, but if it was taken from me I would feel incomplete and terrible. It's like half of me is in reality and half of me isn't, but what is the other half of me considered? Another person? Because I don't day dream about me. Half of me has other opinions, other views, they are completely opposite of me, but at least I get the other perspective. Day dreaming just came some random day, and it's gotten bigger and expanded.
You sound like me, Pink. My MD makes me happy too-I can be anyone, say anything, do anything I want. In reality, I'm a shy, introverted person. In my MD, I'm 'normal'. I understand doing this isn't healthy but by the same token, I've been doing it for so long, I really don't want to stop.
Since I was a kid I was already unconsciously doing maladaptive daydreaming, and it worsen as I grew up. There were things I wanted to bring up when I converse with my parents, like some happenings when I was a kid that keep on bothering me, because I am not sure whether they were real or not. Cause some of them seem realistic but unexpected to happen (some were even too embarrassing). Up until now, I haven't talked it to them, but I don't even want to know the truth anymore.
am i the only one wearing headphones all the time and walking across the room.
i used to do this until i broke my headphones so i just play music outloud
Sammeeee
No it’s me too
Me too
I didn’t know this was a bad thing, I do it way too often- as to where when i’m trying to get ready for the day, I start saying it as if it’s a story. It’s also gotten hard for me to not think about whatever I happen to be “day dreaming” about.
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It happens to me too everything single day....i thought it was normal so i use it cover up for something sad that happened and i end up thinking it actually happened....oh my God i need help i just came out of depression now this.....i hope it is not as bad as i think
@@jayeehope0262 yeah, same… I honestly sometimes if i’m deep enough into it my day is messed up because i don’t know what happen and my brain can’t function where I am at some points.
@@jayeehope0262 but I didn’t get out of depression.. I hope you are okay and recovering well
@@alistarbuttcut Really you didn't....i really hope you do too... i wish i can help you....tbh my moods are really messed up...they are people who want to engage in conversation with me but i just want to be alone because i have been comfortable with that for a long time so i don't just see the need to make friends
I come up with scripts and screenplays in my head a lot (all involving fictional characters and never myself or other real people) because it's fun to me to come up with stories, so sometimes I've wondered if that was a thing, but after watching this I'm relieved to find out that I DON'T have maladaptive daydreaming because I don't have any of these symptoms. In fact, I use coming up with stories in my head at night as a surefire trick that puts me to sleep in minutes rather than it being disruptive to my sleep.
TL;DR: I thankfully don't have any symptoms of maladaptive daydreaming, but I definitely like to write stories in my head for fictional characters a lot. Should really just write a bunch of books.
Has this always been the case?
@@Psych2go Not always. When I was little I absolutely couldn't fall asleep for like 2 hours upon going to bed, but one night I was thinking about a cartoon I saw and how I wanted to expand the story, and then I was asleep 5 minutes later. Have used that trick to fall asleep ever since. Thankfully though if I'm sitting up and I'm awake I can just do that for fun without it making me tired. Thanks for asking!
I just love that recently something as Maladaptive Daydreaming is being acknowledged and talked about, it makes us people who have it not feel so alone 🙂✨💖
Same, I thought I was the only one in the world with this condition.
This doesn’t happen to be very often, but I think I do experience them when it does happen. I actually didn’t know this was a thing until now.
Thank you so much for making this video. I’ve had MD for such a long time and there’s barely any recognition for it. I watch your channel a lot and I really appreciated this! :)
Thanks for your support!
Another amazing video physc2go! Keep it up we really appreciate you posting tysm!!
Thank you! Did you get a chance to watch some of our previous videos as well?
@@Psych2go of course!!
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Ah yes, my autism, adhd, and ptsd coming together to create my ultimate negative coping mechanism. Thanks for making this tho, it helped me understand it better.
yay i'm not alone :)
You are not alone :) Glad this video helped. How many signs did you resonate with?
@@Psych2go 4/5
I remember I started to daydream so much in the 4th grade, I constantly got yelled at by my teacher. From then on, I tried to learn to control my daydreaming. As an aspiring creator/artist, it’s when this ability comes in handy because I can vividly see what I need my characters/story to look like and see how certain scenes in books play out in books.
i absolutely love your channel as it helps me so much! sometimes i cant distinguish whether my sleep dreams are real or fake and all my dreams are so realistic and based off of my real life problems. anyways thank you and i love your channel
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My day dreams are Maladaptive.
I’m lonely. And down about myself so I day dream to escape reality and live in my own world for a couple hours
I Wish i could do that
Me, who daydreams 24/7: *hmmm, very interesting*
Very interesting idea... budding artist :)
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I am a daydreamer!!! It’s honestly really good for story writing.
I have this. Idk how or where I got it. I never lost any sense of reality. But it is addictive, makes studying & sleeping a real challenge. It’s fun to turn on but begrudgingly I can also turn it off. However easily am triggered back into it especially with music.
Same
I always daydream with music too, and I imagine first time daydreaming into music when I was 7 or 8 in my room. But now it's an addiction and the first thing I do in the morning is to play a music and daydream in my head.
@@Zeicel this is what i do ever since quarantine has started 💀
@@Zeicel literally
@@tattoos.pretty.eyesthickthighs literally
Oh, yay, one more problem to add to the list! Am i going to do anything about it? Lol no. I mistake stuff I think about as reality too often to be healthy. I literally have a massive list of mental issues that I'm pretty sure I have but will probably never get verified because therapy scares me.
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They want to help you they are nice people
You can do it :D
If you feel uncomfortable about it then start with your family member / someone you like
Yes! Thank you for covering maladaptive daydreaming! Nobody ever talks about it because of how little research there is on this subject. I appreciate this video a lot :)
I think I was one of the people who suggested this topic when you asked for new ideas a while back, so thanks for making this video.
I spend a lot of time on maladaptive daydreaming. The dreams are vivid and I can act them out. My daydreams are not always pleasant. They usually have happy endings but there can be moments of adversity, sadness and fear along the way.
I often have series dreams - long complex storylines that I put aside then pick up again later. I have four long term scenarios I keep coming back to. All have developed characters I can see vividly.
I don't get a lot done in real life and would like to control the daydreams better but I'm reluctant to give them up entirely. I'd like to think I can turn some of them into fiction one day though I've never done much about that.
This makes me think there's a video to be made about the links between Maladaptive Daydreaming and creativity - how to ride the tiger of maladaptive daydreaming and harness it to fuel your creativity.
This actually describes my life perfectly, though there are a few things that I think may also happen because of maladaptive daydreaming.
pacing or talking out loud and being unable to tell how much time passed happens to me most out of all of the symptoms. And it results in me pacing around my room in circles for hours on end until I'm too dizzy, my knees and ankles ache, my throat hurts, or when I start to feel woozy. Thankfully, that rarely happens I'm around people as they usually pull me out of it early on.
I think I've been able to multitask while the daydream happens, though that seems like it's not as disruptive as it is, the tasks get done mindlessly and conversations make no sense if it's even remembered. speaking of memory, I have no memory of what just happened a few days ago, but I can somewhat describe what happened a few years ago! If it's even a real memory...
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On the bright side at least I can come up with some neat last-minute stories!
However useful that may be-
So me
Sometimes, I don’t even pay attention enough for me to remember what happened minutes ago… but other times, I can multitask, but I’m not really focused on what I’m doing, I’m just doing it and daydreaming.
I've got some tips as someone whos been doing this for years!!:
-Setting timers (Keeps me as aware as possible to how long its been)
- Taking pics (Proof + I have a horrible memory)
-Trying to keep a journal (Usually forget lol)
-Making my fictional selves (Aka my vers. of my fav characters) go to sleep at the same time as me or just do whatever I'm doing
-I also have issues telling the difference between reality n daydream so I try as MUCH as possible to keep magic in or real ppl out (which is *usually* pretty easy since my type is *VERY* fiction based).
Bonus Tips:
-The best places I've found is bathroom and your own room!
-If you pace or smthng like that then take off your shoes! (Socks depend on the person but I like to keep mine on) ESPECIALLY if you have feet prone to ingrown nails!!!
-If you're trigger is music but hate silence, listen to podcasts instead!
I know these tips might not help everyone but as someone whos pretty sure im a mala-daydreamer, these help me and I hope they can help you too!!
This sounds like something really hard to have. Hope you get the help you need if you have this!
You have no Idea!
I have it. Imagine being an alcoholic, cocaine, heroin, or crystal meth addict and being completely unable to stop. Now imagine your drug of choice is ALWAYS accessible because it’s in your head.
An inescapable drug addiction. That’s Maladaptive Daydreaming.
@@taylorh.3484 Woww… That sounds even harder than I expected.. I hope you are getting help at the moment! How long do you have it?
I can't believe it. I was watching a lot of maladaptive daydreaming videos this week and this shows up. perfect channel, perfect hour, perfect everything. thank you.
I had this thing like a week ago, I asked my mom if we still had painkillers or something like that. Then she said, "We only have three left." I sighed and said "What, only three for this intire week?" I still don't know if this was a dream or not. Stuff like this has been happening alot to me, and my mental health also has been declining rapidly lately.
My sleep has been terrible, I've only been able to dream about a secific group of people from a show. Yes it can be comforting, but it got to a point where it interrupts daily stuff. Sleeping is a MASSIVE struggle, I would be up till around 5 am, wakeup at 3 pm. My intire day gone, I havent gone to school anymore either, mental health is terrible, and I cant concentrate for a second. Every small thing I try to do, I get distracted for a second, and start dreaming again. Sometimes i'm aware that i have been dreaming. Sometimes I dont. Whenever I dream, I sometimes ramble whats going on in my head, or pull expressions. This might be funny to others, but very emberrasing for me. I dont want to go to therapy again. My last therapists didnt do anything for me, infact they made it worse. And my last therapist ghosted me. I'm honestly so dissapointed in myself that I cant just do what other people can, I havent done anything usefull for years.
You are not alone, I do this all the time...24/7
My main reason is I feel safe and loved in those daydreams.
They make me feel worthy, cared and most importantly make me feel living.❤ Actually Maladaptive daydreaming is the only thing where I feel myself living, otherwise my OCD and self harming thoughts eat me up.
I don't have friends in reality but there I have so many supporting friends, they comfort me whenever I am weak.
But now its ruining my life, nowadays I am unable to differentiate between real or unreal. I don't feel myself real in reality but I do have lots of emotions in my daydreams. I don't know what to do...I try but it doesn't work...I am stuck in this unknowing situation just like you....I wanna live in reality but I am scared of it , all those abuses happened , don't let me...
I have almost ruined most precious high school years of my life where it was my turning point to career, Now with 20 days left to prepare for exams I have no motivation. I am not okay...I am tired.
@@anonymous_0227 totally feel you, hope youre doing well, take care
@@PastelDemon07 Thankyou so much, take care of yourself too.
I also suffer from maladaptive daydreaming syndrome. I even have an imaginary friend group of 25. Most of the those friends from an another Planet Odisia. Some of them are from Earth. But I don't like to call them "İmaginary". The word "İmaginary" is just their nickname. no matter what anyone says. They're all real and I'm not alone
I have this!! I think its pretty cool and I enjoy doing it :) the only symptom I don’t show is confusing it with reality. It helps a lot with my story writing.
This is actually something I've been looking into recently since my already prominent daydreaming has started to worry me a little
Sometimes my brain chooses to dive into a story over sleep
Having time to daydream has become something i subconsciously look forward to, like visiting another life
I think it may also be changing how i see other people when I make stories involving them
But I'm working in it and i appreciate the vid!!
For the person who is reading this. Don't worry you are not the only one , we are all with you. 🥰
why is this so accurate oh my-
I wish I could afford a therapist lmao
I went through this during my early adolescent years. It started as an escape from the amount of bullying I was dealing with at school and then just became a way to escape my depression and live a different life for a while.. I eventually outgrew it for the most part when I was 18, almost 19 and started college. But I still have regular daydreams.
What would you daydream about?
YEEESSSSS 🤩 I'm so happy someone is talking about MD
I really would like to show this to my mom, but she can't translate English, Portuguese (Brazil) is our native language.
I always had daydreams my entire life since I never had friends or a present family to interact with. During quarentine it only got worse since I lost all social interaction with actual people except for my familly, I have daydreams all the time in second plan in my head. I even used to reserve time only for my daydreams. I heard about the term "Maladaptive Daydreaming" for the first time when I was watching a reaction video to WandaVision, it was when I actually started to get informed about it. Now I'm trying to see a doctor... what is quite hard since I'm from a country where most people think that mental health is irrelevant and as such it doen't deserve the needed atention.
Hi Moon. I know what you mean when you say you used to 'reserve time' for your daydreaming. When I worked in an office (I work at home now and set my own hours), I was able to do my job w/o issue and wait until I got home to do my daydreaming. MD has cut down on my socializing enormously. I prefer to stay home and do MD over socializing with others, including family. I think i'm one of the few who didn't mind 'stay at home' during COVID since I was home most of the time anyway. I hope you're able to find a doctor to help you. Not sure if this site will help you-and I'm NOT suggesting you use this site over seeing a doctor. But this is a site for those with MD -you can post pretty much anything you like -talk about your daydreams, how MD affects you, etc. and those who read it will understand exactly where you're coming from since they also have MD. (I'm only a member on the site...I have nothing to do with it otherwise) daydreaminblue.freeforums.net/
These references are too good. I really enjoy seeing them.
Sometimes I have dreams at night that are so real I think they’ve actually happened. This happens very rarely though. Also, if I get really engrossed in a tv or book series I’ll start imagining scenarios in my head with the characters at night, and it will keep me up all night. This stops happening over time and also happens rarely. When it does happen, I always make sure to save my imaginings for later at night so I don’t disrupt my day. I have no other symptoms though, so I think I’m okay. Thank you, Psych2Go.
i wouldn’t consider my situation maladaptive daydreaming but it’s close (?) i’ve been doing this since i was about 7 or 8 and i haven’t stopped since. in fact i can’t even go a minute without daydreaming and getting into my head. i have this whole world developed with characters who all have storylines and different backgrounds and situations. it’s a very complex place in my mind and it’s basically my ideal world wear i can escape. everyday i do at least an hour were i listen to music just so i can daydream to it and sometimes it’s the best part of my day because i can make up whatever scenario i want. since i do it wherever i go, i often have to be careful to not make weird faces on the bus or in class since i don’t wanna seem weird. i also do it to help me fall asleep. sometimes i’d rather just do nothing, lay down and daydream. i’m not calling it maladaptive daydreaming since it’s not like others where i’ve seen people say that they walk around and talk for hours. mine isn’t as severe but i daydream a lot that it’s definitely close.
2:14 it happens to me a lot, especially with traumitic memories, I didn't know my brother getting cut in the hand by my father was real until I talk to him about that and he has confirm, and there's a lot more like and worst than this that I remember happened to me but I prefer thinking it never happened
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Interesting!
loved the video!! just wanted to add that maladaptive daydreamers actually can tell the difference between reality and their dreams, it's most likely not MD if you can't.
Also one of the big factors of MD is the way daydreams are structured with their own complex plotlines and characters. Most of the time, people have dreams that have been going on for long periods of time,, sometimes even spanning years.
It's maladaptive when we go into Inception with dreams within dreams with no totems.
Are you a fan of dream interpretations?
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@@Psych2go Only the types of dreams that go deeper and deeper like in Inception. I've had dreams happen before like in Inception.
Ok so this is ALMOST a perfect description but most of us do know when we are or aren't in a daydream. That being said some of those problems still apply such as loosing your internal clock, getting involved and not realizing you have FALLEN into a daydream the same way you might not realize at 1st that a dream is a dream. But it's more of an addictive behavior and it's the fact we know reality from fantasy that seperates it from a hallucination. Currently successful treatments are focused on treating it as an addictive behavior. That being said i do adore the differences that you show as litteraly everything else you said matches up with both my experience and others experience with maladaptive daydreaming who ive connected with online as well as what has been described in research papers on the topic. Even if it was glazed over, thank youbso much for including pacing as there is still a kind of reality loss involved. The talking to the celebrity example is what happens exactly, however i don't think i'm talking to them, i think that im silent in reality & talking in my daydream only. It's only when the person next to me says something do i realize i was speaking out loud. Definitely one of the most embarrassing issues. I haven't heard of, but im not suprised it has an effect on memory as another condition that's common with it is ADHD. Also, thank you for including loneliness as that's often when people felt left out & confused not having any exact trauma to point to but developed this problem when feeling lonely in school or something. I would prefer you were more careful about distinguishing between reality and fantasy but it's q hard concept to understand or explain and you still did an amazing job. But a lot of have been misdiagnosed with schizophrenia or at one point scared it would turn into that bc of how vivid the daydream is. Knowing it's not real is the major and important distinction. If anything it's more that we forget we're in the real world rather than thinking the imaginary one is real.
Why is Gaster over there
To me, what I have is an absolutely great coping mechanism. I can't face the "real world" completely. I need this patting in my back so I can go on. It sure bothers me sometimes, but I'm never bored or "alone". Although it's weird that when I'm daydreaming deeply I keep making different expressions and it might be awkward if someone sees it, I just... don't want to get rid of it. I'm bipolar so I do have background to support maladaptive daydreaming, but because I don't feel like it is a bad thing to me, but rather my shelter, I don't know if it's maladaptive or immersive daydreaming. Sometimes I can't choose to get OUT of "that world", but I can always choose to get in, anytime. Doing it in the bath and before sleeping is a MUST. I have this little world that is not perfect, but extremely complex. I have "friends" who are the people I wish I could have around. They're physically and psychologically complex, they have, obviously, complex backgrounds, and all of the scenarios are detailed. I'm Brazilian, and besides portuguese, my mother language, some daydreams are in English, too. It helps me make better decisions and get comforted when I'm sad. There is one character that is basically just like me, and it makes me feel better about me and my flaws. I LOVE music, but it's the biggest trigger to me. I can't enjoy it without daydreaming. If I'm into a new show, movie, book, etc., my daydreams will be influenced by that. Sometimes I also feel the need to harm (and then heal) some of the "characters", so I can be comforted. Trying to prove to myself that there is a way out. I can't explain much, I feel like my brain doesn't let me to that. But if I could, it would be easy to understand the type of person I am and how my mind works just by analyzing my daydreams. I THINK I don't mix it with reality, but I often feel things like "why don't you exist?". But I love and treasure the universe that exists within me. Rather than ill, I would like to try to think I am gifted. It helps me become a better writer and because I imagine different types of situations, struggles, etc., I have to search and understand more about this specific thing to "develop" a character. They grow over time and I can imagine them in different stages of life whenever I want to. And, it's funny because I have these "established plots" and sometimes, I just don't want to daydream about a certain one. I'm someone who deals with over thinking, so daydreaming helps me focus on something that is sweeter and happier than the harsh reality. I notice that there are a lot of childish elements, because I have faced many things that stole a part of my childhood. But I like it. It makes me feel like I BELONG and I don't feel it anywhere else. I don't want people to understand it. I just want to be respected and be able to daydream as much as I want. Unless it harms me, of course, but it's been the opposite ever since.
I do this every single day. I love were my imagination takes me, but I must always keep myself grounded...until I get home from work that is. 😋
Interesting!
I think I have this, I don’t day dream of real life stuff, I day dream of things like a sci-fi fantasy and stuff like that, things easy to discern from reality, but I do it way to much, it’s not healthy but it allows me to cope with my situation, luckily I seem to have a mild easier to discern case of this. Thanks psych to go!
I'm a Maladaptive Daydreamer and have been since I was very young. I was bullied a lot and didn't have many friends and I didn't get alone with my parents and didn't like being around them which made me feel horrible wherever I went which I know if what my MD came from, it was my brain's escape to it all. It was always fun and I'll say that when I was really young, I found it hard to realise what was real and what was a daydream but as I got older I could tell the difference. I had different worlds constructed in my mind that I jumped from, but as the years went on, some of those worlds faded away, replaced by new ones I preferred at an older age. Now, I have one specific world I go to that's been evolving every day and some of the characters in it have been with me up to 13 years. When I was a teen and was struggling a lot with depression and anxiety, my MD got so much worse, and dangerous. I daydreamed more as I preferred to be in my world than the real world which made me want to be alone so I could daydream for hours and hours which hindered my grades massively as well as my friendships and relationships. The worst one was when I daydreamed constantly for almost 3 days straight. I didn't sleep, didn't eat, hardly drank, didn't shower, brush my hair, wore the same school uniform for those 3 days and never took them off once even at night and everything from those 3 days were a complete blur because of this. At the end of it, I became very ill and still had days like that until after a while I became borderline anorexic. Nowadays, my MD isn't too bad, however I still need to set alarms through the day so I don't miss important meetings and stuff or else I'll just daydream and completely miss them by hours. I still battle with my MD and not eating properly, but I'm getting there. It still sucks even today that a lot people I've been with for years and some I felt like I've grown up with aren't real and never will be, but finding more people in my real life made that sting less.
The fact that i was daydreaming during this video, is definetly a sign
I’m so glad you made a video on this. I’ve never been diagnosed with anything, or talked to a psychologist before (which I need to), but I almost feel certain that I maladaptive daydream (not just because of your video, I’ve felt like this for the past few years). I’ve done it everyday for years (since I was like 10-12). I stay up all night listening to music and daydreaming. It was so bad that one time I felt sad because I realized I don’t ever talk to anyone in real life, and yet I’m okay because I live in my mind 24/7. When I daydream, I think about the same people/characters over again. I don’t daydream about myself at all. It’s almost like a show… but it also feels greater than a show… like it’s a whole other life but only in my head. It’s realistic too, not like a fantasy with mystical creatures and beings. Normal people, normal situations, just a little unrealistic scenarios here and there. I even feel sad talking about it right now because I’m acknowledging that it’s fake and just in my head… even though I know it’s just in my head… it’s weird. It’s like acknowledging the fact that it’s fake makes me think that I need to stop and it’s pointless.. but I don’t feel good unless I do. It basically kills my vibe.
And as for the pacing and talking out loud, I can control that, like I don’t do that in front of people, but when I get home and I’m by myself I’ll just walk around back and forth daydreaming and sometimes mouth or slightly whisper what the characters or people are saying….. I sound so crazy right now💀
I am afraid of reality, and I just daydream to escape from the reality. Sometimes i just act it out loud that my family thinks that i am crazy
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Being a maladaptive daydreamer, I zone out so much, almost every minute, just making up stories. I also became an author for that reason, the amount of stories I've made up. And most of my daydreams are part of a universe I've made up. Every single detail is something I've thought of. Worldbuilding and writing come really easily to me.
Most of my daydreams are so engrossing, I literally have insomnia because of it. I will keep myself awake till 2 am, just daydreaming about characters or scenarios. And if I wake up, not knowing or understanding anything, half asleep, I DAYDREAM.
There are two types of daydreams:
About yourself, which can make you doubt if it actually happened;
Or about characters and scenarios with them, that you have created, which can help you keep differences between reality and daydreams.
Oh dang. I'm an aspiring author and I'm working on a fantasy book. I will think about what I can add each day and often get caught in creating that story. Sometimes I feel I spend more time in my fantasy world than real life. I'll see or experience something and think “How would my character react to that?” Whenever I have a mental breakdown I try to think of ways to include it in my book. It does work as a good coping mechanism sometimes but I naturally do it every time. Even watching this video I was thinking about how I could apply this to my book. Writing this all down I realize it's a bigger obsession than I thought it was.
I've been doing this since I can remember. I was really, extremely easily bored as a child, I don't know why it was so extreme. But it was really bad for me, at least I have never heard of another 5 year old I would call almost suicidal. It was terrible. So I started imagining a different world, connected to ours, with mostly fictional characters, but also a few of my closest friends. I haven't stopped since. It's gotten really detailed. What started as a little family like situation is now, over 10 years later a whole civilization, a while world. And surprisingly few plotholes. I would never want to stop, this place I made is a home where I could always flee to.
I also use it to write stories. I dream about a situation again and again until it can no longer be contained in a mortal vessel and then I write it down.
Maladaptive daydreaming is the best thing I ever expiriensed, even though it's messing with my life sometimes. But I still don't understand something. I had those daydream since I was a kid. I can't remember any trauma or anything else that could trigger it. I know my father had them too, but his childhood was very traumatic, I can understand why he was daydreaming. But my life was always good, I have friends, I was a good student, I have a job. But none of this brings me so much joy as daydreaming. I can't even expiriense love or any romantical attraction in real life - only with characters in daydreams. Last few years daydreams became less bright, and I met my fist depressive episode. Then my father died, and I had another one. I'm on meds now, and daydreaming still the only thing that gives me true happines, even though my life is pretty good.
this is an everyday struggle to me, i say to myself that its easy to get out of but its truly not. whenever i try to not do it, i will have nothing to do. i dont have close friends to play w or hobbies. i do have small hobbies like drawing but its easy to get burn out or bored. i have nothing to do, im so disconnected from reality:( i cant talk about this problem to anyone irl, i know i’ll get judge, js need to get this out my head in public comments..
This is crazy I am shock to see there are other people like me I’m glad I gain awareness about my type of thinking talking to other people can help improve introspective learning about the other person perspective Not only am I talking as the other person I be making the sound effects too
Steam:exhaling out my nose at a constant rate
Booming noise:hard low exhale
Fighting:Fast Leaning forward
Sometimes i whisper, laugh or say crap from my day dreams 😭
One morning you could hear from my room "YE OLD 14 HOUR FLIGHT! please help there's a child on the plane" and my dad was like wth 🙂
I act out my day dreams often and ppl get so concerned and also recently i can't sleep *ONLY DAY DREAM TILL ALMOST 4AM* 😃
I forgot to mention i day dream for almost 5 hours every a day-
That moment when you come home at 3am and want to study for the exam but decide to listen to some music and then suddenly it's 11pm.
I'm kind of glad that the severity of the symptoms is described in a way clear enough that doesn't make them ambiguous and easily relatable to anyone, but at the same time I feel that there are parts (like the ending) that make it sound like a hallucination which is terribly inaccurate. One of the key characteristics of maladaptive daydreaming is that the person can absolutely tell the difference between reality and their daydreams; the only exception is in memories, but that isn't while you are daydreaming but rather when you are recalling the events. MADD is closer to dissociation; your mind isn't present. It's not that you're seeing things in the real world that aren't actually there, it's more like you're not seeing reality. But you always know they're daydreams while they are happening, you just sort of forget about it enough to not care about real life and be incredibly affected by your imagination.
For whoever's interested, here are some other key things to take into consideration when trying to define if your daydreaming is maladaptive or not:
-Consistency: When you are pulled out of a daydream, do you forget about it quickly? Or do you keep thinking about it, waiting to go back to it or even falling back into it unintentionally? I found this a very helpful and clear way to distinguish regular daydreaming from excessive, immersive or maladaptive daydreaming. Maybe you even get "irrationally" upset when you're interrupted, or you keep up the same storyline for days, even years if you're really dedicated. I believe this is the reason MADDers tend to form complex inner worlds and stories; everything we imagine stays over time, it accumulates and builds onto itself instead of having it go away and starting with a blank canvas the next time.
- Attachment: This doesn't only imply an unhealthy emotional attachment to the daydreams, but also a disregard for real life. If you often find yourself upset over the fact that you can't experience the life of your daydreams or that the people in them aren't real, and this is making your real life seem less appealing overall and consistently over time, even getting you to neglect it (in ways such as ignoring your responsibilities or social needs), it's probably a bad sign.
Some of these things, if I remember correctly, were mentioned in the other video on MADD on this channel, but I still think it was worth sharing.
Keep in mind I'm not a professional and I only speak from personal experience and information that I have found most useful or understandable in my research.
If you have the chance and live in a place where psychologists are likely to be aware of and capable to treat this disorder, or at the very least determine if this is the correct answer to your issues, do try to reach out. Self diagnosis is the first step, not the conclusion.
As INFP I daydream a lot but it help me cope life hardships .😊
I'm a daydreamer, but most of the points I don't have - beside the time one.
Music on and I daydream (nowadays I can just choose to do it) and well, I can hear and see what I dream. Lots of stories. Sometimes when characters are crying from the heart or are happy from it, I'm sad or happy too. Sometimes I feel my eyes gettin wet then. It can be really emotional. And realky dark stuff can go on my mood too, when it comes right before I go to a termin.
I can daydream for hours and it's still a struggle to have a balance, but,I'm working on it. In the past, I has the snap, I was so intensly in it, that I lost reality. But I can always tell what's daydream and what's not.
Sleep problems? Nah mate, tbh, before I go to sleep I do daydream, like a lil ritual?
And thanks to daydreams I have clear dreams, that I can sometimes remember.
So yeah, can't relate to the video
My daydreams are in the Genre fantasy, lots of magic and stuff. They have themes who are mine, but they aren't me. I watch the lives from other people in other worlds - so I have the feeling of it
Thank you for this video! It really explains a lot about what's happening. Thank you!
You are so welcome! How many signs did you relate to?
@@Psych2go All of them 😅.
I do this all the time, and I thought it was normal. I moved recently (about 6 months ago) and I miss my old life so much, and sometimes I “daydream” that I’m still there, but I forget I’m not actually there… if that makes sense. I walk around my new house, imagining it’s my old one.. and I sit in my room and i come to realize that I am in a total different place then I thought I was… I don’t exactly know how to fully explain what happens but i have all these false memories of things that never happened at my old house. I’ve never really talked about it but I probably should. Thank you so much for this video ❤
When I daydream I have conversations with people, long conversations. Until real people snap me out of it, I’ll even talk out loud in said conversations.
Oh man...all of them hit home. Guilty as charged...
One little thing... Most of these are also traits of *Immersive Daydreaming.*
Its the same thing only its basically beneficial instead of destructive.
God delivered me from this a few weeks ago. It is actually a DEMONIC STRONGHOLD.
After praying for deliverance I had no attachment to the characters I thought of. NONE AT ALL. The evil spirit had stopped oppressing me.
The daydreams were fun. BUT THEY WOULD GO ON FOR AGES. I also felt shameful deep down.
God never wants us to feel shameful.
Jesus saves. He who the son sets free, is free indeed.
I have so much time now.
I’m now 100% sure I’m now a maladaptive daydreamer. But…the thing is it only started last year.. so much time flew by..when I do it..I feel so happy! I have a whole new world that it feels amazing to just imagine..I’m someone else! It’s gotten so far..that uh- I have foot corns on my feet. I have almost removed like 85% of them by now…and I’m getting more self aware about this ‘maladaptive daydreaming’ it’s addicting. It’s so addicting. But I think I have it in me to remove this addiction. I have summer vacays coming up . I’ll try my best to try and lessen the effect of this ‘daydreaming’. My parents got divorced a long time ago. I was only 8. I- was really depressed and I still am. My home environment isn’t really that comfortable. When I’m at school..I feel okay…I feel normal..but when I come home..I feel….sad, weird. My mother scolds me for everything, I get she’s doing it for my benefit but it is isn’t helping, in fact it’s made my depression 10x worse. My family doesn’t believe in ‘mental disorders’ or things like depression. And when I get tired of this sad reality I live in….I- do maladaptive daydreaming. I find my self mouthing words, pacing everywhere, acting like I’m in an edit..or in a another scenario. I even stopped doing normal human activities..like finding- taking photos is weird and cringe.. and going out and dressing up is weird..caring is weird. And I think my depression is connected to me getting scolded or reminders about my past. I stopped liking to eat. My mother scolds me about it which makes me lose my appetite even more. I didn’t tell anyone in my family I daydream, I told them that I ‘dance’. But during this 1 year, my grades saw a huge change…I went from a 77% student to a 93% student. I do good in school so people care about me..notice me….give me attention. I’m only 12. I- don’t know what to do. I’m ashamed to tell any one or get caught. I know it’s not real. I’m too aware about that. And I don’t even get insomnia for it.
3:20 I genuinely have dealt with this almost my entire life, finally seeing it explained almost made me cry
Good to know what it's called. Now watch me completely forget about this and do absolutely nothing about it.
This is really helpful. I have some of these situations but not all of them.
I need to investigate more.
I have so many hypothetical conversations in my head that I struggle to remember if I actually had a certain conversation with someone or If I just imagined it.
Whenever I daydream i do it so deeply that i start to act according the scene like i would sometimes even cry because of it . and if someone interupt i became angry and start yelling on them .I am so glad that i found some people like me . As I was thinking of myself as a phyco
I will take a nap and have an amazing dream about being with someone I really like, but there so realistic that I can’t even remember if it was real or not. And when i realize it wasn’t real it kinda hurts.
I was just trying to get rid of maladaptive daydreaming and you just Posted this
i remember so many “memories” i’ve had when i was younger but i’m never sure if it was even real or not.
As i daydreamer, i want to share my experience. I always know im daydreaming, or at least i realize it when it's over. I know it becouse i literaly made a whole different world in my head, with his characters and laws.
The only problem with this is that i dont have a personality, i automatically take the personality of a character, and i switch it when i am bored. This means that i can pass from the sweetest person in the world to an asshole, just becouse i changed the story and the main character in my head.
Another thing is how people around me live this thing, they see my sudden change off mood and they always have different opinions about me, to the point that some people think they know two different people, while in reality it's just me. My family often points out that sometimes, mostly during lunch or dinner, i space out and stop eating or talking to them, i start mumbling something and totaly ignore the world around me. Then I come back to reality and im a different person. They always joke about this and they think im bipolar, but i know for a fact that is just my daydreaming.
I'm planning on using my Maladaptive Daydreaming to write some fantasy stories and publish them in books.
It does not do to dwell on dreams and
forget to live, remember that.
- Albus Dumbledore
Dumbledore said calmly
I think I finally found out what is up with me! I can just lay somewhere and live this fantasy in my head. Usually its the same storyline, but only with slight details changed. Lately, its the same cast of characters, but now they have met new people. Its so bizarre how "out of it" I become.
Me 10 minutes after watching the vid as an extreme maladaptive daydreamer : giving a speech to invisible people in my room about maladaptive daydreaming experience and mental health.