I'm an artist and aspiring photographer...my daydreaming is advantageous in that particular area of my life! But, other areas... I always want to be somewhere new too! ...and yes, simple things take me forever as well...everyone gets annoyed with me. Lol
JOANY I’ve tripped, bumped into things and dropped things all the time. Sometimes it’s a good thing cause it knocks me out of my daydream and I’m usually either too embarrassed or too pissed off to go back lol
1) Pacing 2) Difficult to focus and easy to disconnect with surroundings 3) Tired all the time 4) Irritation when your brain is running short on ideas 5) The frustration of never being able to output your daydreams because they'll never be as good as they were in your head 6) Lost all the time 7) PACING 8) Cranking up music until your ears are pounding just to submerge yourself as much as possible 9) Laughing/talking to yourself oh and crying and mouthing your or your characters' words 10) PACING/RUNNING 11) Repeating words and phrases to friends and family because it's difficult to output new information when your brain is stuck on a subject/scene for too long 12) HOURS CAN PASS LIKE _THAT_ 13) Wanting to live in a more aethstetic reality e.g. neon, countryside etc. (it's suffocating for me because I live at a boarding school FML) 14) Not being able to explain yourself or your emotions 15) Not being able to explain MD to family and friends because let's be honest it is REALLY weird And finally... it's ADDICTIVE *AS FUCK*
Am I the only one who walks around in circles when I daydream? I even act as if I'm in my daydream (by act I mean by my facial expressions, being happy or sad)
Sierra Trash At my job I'm supposed to read and sign papers and my boss always thinks I'm high and lazy because I have to reread them 😞. Do you ever have problems counting things? I noticed I'm constantly forgetting my count
I thought I was the only one with this disorder, I’ve been doing it for my entire life. I’d lock myself away in my bedroom, walk around and pretend I’m the character that I’m daydreaming about. I’m a huge Star Wars fan and when I was younger I’d always daydream that I lived in the Star Wars Universe. I thought it was just something weird that I did. I never realized that it was a mental disorder and that many people have it until recently. Thank you so much for sharing
OMG I do too! Mine was Harry Potter instead of star wars though 😉 I actually didn't find out about this disorder until late last year when I was researching rare mental health disorders to try figure out what was wrong with me.
My biggest issue is when people ask me to things in the middle of my daydream. Because when I do what they ask me to do i have to start the whole dream over. And my biggest insecurity is when I'm in my room and my windows are open I'm afraid my neighbors are watching me pace and talk to myself.
Pacing is something that I hear a lot of maladaptive daydreamers do but I literally need nothing to trigger my daydreams. It’s so easy for me to dissociate it literally takes no effort for me
I can also daydream with close to no stimulation....however i think its more with pacing it becomes almost impossible not to...if that makes sense.....hopefuly you are able to find a way to distract yourself.
I only need pacing when I daydream about sports or sth physically exhausting... Sometimes I start to run or jump randomly too, it's not like the movement is triggering the daydreams, the daydreams kinda make the movements happen
Interesting. You have to go to new places to daydream. I have to stay in my room/ at home. I can't daydream in public. My parents think I'm extremely lazy because I'm just quietly in my room all day. I think the fact that my parents have no clue why I have zero friends and no social life is really stressing me out lately. Also, I could relate to that one point with the book. The moment you mentioned that I slowly turned my head to look at the book lying next to my bed (I started it a few weeks ago but well...) I love watching your videos. It feels so good having someone to talk about this.
Pink Elephant I use to stay in bed to daydream...i use to spend %80 or more of my Daydreaming time in bed...however that changed over time. I am glad you enjoy watching my videos! My goal is to make people feel less alone...and feel more understood.
I can relate I need to stay in my room all the time it's like my safe zone, what is worse my parents think that I have a lot of friends idk what gave them this idea, they think I stay in my room to study.
"Im not lost. Im lost in my head, but I'm not lost" I do feel lost in my head everytime whatever im doing, wherever im going. Sometimes I would just find myself daydreaming again.
The spacing out, no having social life, not work, even reading a book is hard because the more you read the more your mind wanders into a world or situations that your brain wants you to imagine and create. Also, watching fantasy things, like a drama or a movie and at the end, i continue the story the way how i wish, other endings. Sleeping is hard too, the moment i close my eyes, i start thinking and imagine that someone is with me, talking to me, we are doing something, feeling it too real and then after a few days snapping out of it and reminded me that it's exactly not real just as you said, i feel ashamed most of the time because of that, like "that's never gonna happen, you are insane" and then i get back to the fantasy. I don't know if this is something that needs to be analized professionally or is something that we don't know until we show symtoms, i mean, it's been like this since i was like 7 (i'm 29 years old now) , i remember finding me pouring water on cups because "my friend" was thirsty when i was 9, i think. it gets addictive and most of the time gets in the way of my daily life and doesn't let me do things in the right way but i can't get out of it.
I've been so embarrassed about this for years and started doing research to try to figure why I was always like this… im so happy I am not alone. I started crying I don't know why,,, just all these years I thought I was alone in my addiction
김종현 a year later I’m 100% in your position. I’m just so overwhelmed. I finally figured out what is wrong with me and especially that I’m not alone in that.
I’ve felt like a crazy person before like I’m sure all you guys have to lol, because you didn’t know what’s wrong with you 😂 especially when you’re like mumbling to yourself and someone sees you and you just say you were reading something or remembered something funny 💀
I do. I am always a young cool well loved high school teenager. When I thought about why I always dream of that, I realized it's because when I was in high school, I was the different opposite of" cool".
I certainty do that! It can really center around my familial upbringing.. Mainly because i feel my parents should not have been parents and severely failed me!
I started daydreaming about knowing what mdd when I was in high school so I could explain why I was zoning out in math class to my teacher cuz she was making fun of me in class and I had nothing to say to her cuz I didn't understand what I was doing..
My personal list: 1. When a really good daydream is interrupted and I forget what it was...I get beyond irratable. 2. Focusing on schoolwork is a nightmare. 3. If I don't daydream enough in a day, the day feels wrong and wasted. 4. Tired all the damn time. 5. I forget everything. There's more but my brain stopped working so...
I was at the mall the other day by myself. And in my mind I was at the beach with my daydream boyfriend and he tackled me. And I just smiled and giggled alittle while walking past a crowd of people 😑😑
OMG. I always knew about this but never to this extent. I started researching more because i was starting to worry about myself. I know my family thinks my pacing is weird. I’m so embarrassed. i don’t know who i should tell about this, because like i feel it’s one of those things you know of but rarely gets talked about. I’m always in my head. It explains so much why i started struggling in school, and with tasks. driving would probably be difficult for me.. I’m glad I’m not alone !!! me and you are almost identical with what we experience. you should like message me or something jsjsjsjs
Amanda Beebe I’m a pacer too! My parents always used to wonder why I would just have headphones in and walk around the house and up and down the stairs. I can’t carry out a lot of my responsibilities in school because I get so distracted with a day dream.
Amanda Beebe omg me too! I’ve been researching a lot, this is been happening a lot to me like where ever i am I’ll just be day dreaming about everything especially when listening to music, I’ll be in my own little world :( it’s literally ruining my life and i don’t know who to talk about it bc i know my parents won’t take it serious at all :( there are wayyyyy too strict & won’t believe it at all
Keara Toné I literally feel so relieved that I'm not the only one who paces and listens to music. I used to think I had some sort of mental illness. I'm so glad you guys are here❤️
1. You rarely have good mood. 2. You know it’s bad but without it you just literally don’t live at all, even the fantasy life. 3. You are always out of reality and when you suddenly back to real world because someone ask you to for example give them you get nervous af not to make them angry. 4. You can’t explain even the simplest feelings. 5. Others’ happiness feels fake and annoys you. 6. It’s extremely easy for you to get angry. 7. You feel mentally drained 24/7. 8. You feel sad and lonely but when you have friends, it overwhelms you that you have to care. 9. You want to actually die but dying would mean no daydreaming. 10. You just feel like you are trapped in a wrong world.
I’m so glad this is being made public. Before the internet, I thought I was the only one. When i was a kid, I had a real normal life. When I was a teen this disorder started . My life and grades fell apart and I kept forgetting things or messing up things. The most painful part is the abuse from others. To me, it seems like the weaker you look the more people like to hurt u. my folks would hit me every time I’d forget something, or scare the crap out of me by screaming at the top of their lungs, everytime I messed something up. My mom used to pinch me until my arm was black and blue for not socializing. This abuse didn’t help me overcome but made me stay in my head more. My coworkers would give me hell pushing me around. shouting at me, insulting me, making fun of me, etc. Anyway My question is; has anyone noticed or experienced abuse from other for not being alert?
I am so sorry to hear this has been your experience, i hope your situation has gotten better. Its actually very common for people who maladaptive daydream to have experience some sort of repeated abuse in their life. Often abuse isnt because of the excessive daydreaming, however, the abuse often causes the daydreaming.
Unique Souls Well that is interesting. But yes Im glad to say I am doing better. 😊. I was able to get some therapy and it helped me understand that i just happened to suffer from the hands of a dysfunctional family who handled my situation wrongly. And as far as people outside the family, I also learned sometimes there’s a lot of insecure people in the world that need to make themselves feel superior by abusing people who seem weaker than them. But In reality, that really makes them the weaker ones.
@@UniqueSouls I take antidepressants for my MDD. I think it works. I don't daydream my day away anymore. Sometimes I daydream before bed but that's okay.
We have a lot in common. It's comforting to know there's others like me. I recently found out that I have this disorder after years of wanting to know. Thank you for sharing your own experience with it.
Iv tried to go places to avoid daydreaming as well.... I am home schooled so I spend majority of my time at home, which is a huge trigger for me. I was thinking about going back to public school so that it won’t be as bad.
I'm supposed to be homeschooled but im technically a dropout. A huge trigger for me too and i want to go back to school bc i miss having friends since i got lonely, i started to daydream about old friends. I dont wanna go thru the same bs school system again so im gonna study for a ged diploma instead & get a part time job
For those are suffering with this, try running with headphones for exercise at least thirdty minutes. This helps me get it out of my system for a while so I can focus on important things.
i wonder if maladaptive daydreaming causes some sort of like idk how to explain it but it reminds me of ADHD, for some of us it’s like we HAVE to do it to feel okay, which can be very addictive when it gets out of hand. for people with ADHD they tend to feel a need to move and struggle paying attention, basically what i’m saying is, i feel it has some aspects that ADHD has, and is definitely addictive, but i’ll try doing this:’) my daydreaming has gotten better, i used to do it almost all day when i was going through a lot of trauma but now i’m working through it and i’ve noticed it isn’t as bad but it is easily triggered and it isn’t hours at a time but small portions of my day and i’ll get frustrated and just stop what i’m doing because i can’t focus because daydreaming
Sometimes I came up with some very good histories, when I'm daydreaming. if only I had the patient and write them down. I would be a nice writer...CORRECTION..! we'd all be good writers!...thanks for sharing girl. peace...
Forever to do simple things...That's the main problem of MDD...especially assignments, reading books...They take an year for me...Damn I have 9 of these problems...The problem 5 is for me I can daydream anywhere in planet...It's high time we need a cure for MDD
I thought this was rare, until i wanted to know why im daydreaming for hours bc i began to think its an actual problem and i found it. I have adhd, anxiety, and have gone through depression. I daydream about being famous in acting & music and i dropped out of high school to pursue these dreams somehow. Not having school has made my mdd worse, but i felt uncomfortable having to stay in school for hours when i had the urge to daydream when I'm alone or moving. Im gonna study to get my GED diploma tho ❤
I day dream while walking, running, eating ,driving, watching, working、every day every hour i day dream. I voluntary or unvoluntary day dream and u know i can control it sometimes but there are sometimes i can control it like i can turn it on and off but malfunction sometimes.
Does daydream affect your driving capabilities, because soon im getting my driving license and im terrified of driving because i daydream a lot almost all the day,i cant stop thinking what if i hurt someone or myself.
@@aidazani5990 daydreaming was the reason i never got in to cars or driving them,because of daydreaming all the time i might cause accidents or worse kill myself during driving on the road.My family makes jokes about me saying "i would never let you drive a car because you will kill yourself because of daydreaming",and they are correct,this disorder is just sick to my opinion and i feel sorry for myself that i lost a huuuuge amount of my life time doing usless things.
@@aidazani5990 not entirely,it was worse 3 or 4 years ago,puting headphones on my ears and acting like i was that person doing something very big,music played a huge part of my triggering issue.Im still fighting it,at least now i know its a bad thing and defocused me a lot from my daily routine it was horrible.
Every time I’m at home I dance while listening to music in my own world and feels real it’s fun then I realised It ain’t real and I feel sad I just found out about maladaptive daydreaming and realised I had it. It’s 3am and I was dancing in bed daydreaming I do this every night and at school and I’ve done it since I was a kid cause life was hard as a kid and a teen and it made me feel better
I can relate to you deeply. I've always been a lonely soul, always been seen as a weirdo, always had problems holding down a job because of my maladaptive daydreaming. No one could understand why I talk to myself.
One of my oldest daydreams is going back in time to get revenge - or actually just handle a traumatic experience differently, and sometimes it feels like if I can just remember /imagine one thing perfectly, I will actually transport there. Also, I think the movie "somewhere in time", is about mdd maybe?
For the longest time I always daydreamed thinking that I was so creative but in the end it's a prison. It's so addicting because every second I entertain my daydreams it's an instant high I always want to just get up and pace back and forth in the middle of the night. I used to read all the time but this year it's been so slow and difficult. I used to ready this book on meditation every day but now that I cant focus, my stress had gone up :( iv always been shamed for not paying attention and that I dont take things seriously enough because i'm in my head. It's honestly a big relief to know there are others like me 🙏
I definitely maladaptive daydream cause of loneliness, and well, it's there to fill the void but lately it feels like it's only been eating at that void and making it larger.
I had madd for some years but only knew the term for it recently. I am quite happy that I found your channel and it feels good to know that I am not alone in this. P. S: Great work with the videos and lots of love.. 💙💙
same..bc we daydream abt stuff that we wish to have in reality and if i dont daydream abt myself with all the stuff i want, my life will also be boring
Me and my cousins used to make a lot of cringy movies lol, for some reason particularly horror movies, or comedy movies. so, since I’m also a maladaptive daydreamer I was always the director, writer, and editor since I had all the plots. I never acted in them
Ok, so first of all, thank you from the bottom of my heart for making this and speaking about this. I just can't express it . But you have really changed my life. Thanks a lot
Hi imma just say something. I just found out what maladaptive dreaming is and I think I have that when I’m alone for some reason I even act them out (the dreams )I’m kind of scared but no one knows that I do it and I’m scared to tell them but it’s kind of fun. Is that bad? XD but I’m glad there’s more people out there like me good luck friends
I do that too. I sit in my room or pace and listen to music. I go to a certain memory and have the people I miss. I tell them about recent activities and how I am. It helps when I'm stressed and upset. I could so it for hours. I say what I'm talking about out loud and they speak to me in my head but it's me creating what they say. When I'm alone I just pretend they are around it helps me focus on things and be motivated.
Destiny Gallagher I feel like mine is getting worse and it’s like I know it’s strange so most of my daydreams start with me holding my phone, I’ll be in my apartment alone I have thin walls my neighbors probably hear me rambling but I pretend I’m i. The phone and do exactly what you do and it goes on for hours at a time, yesterday I did it for 4hrs and I’ve noticed my phone calls with my mom and brother have went from 15 minutes to 3hrs and I’m wondering if I should be worried or try to get some help or something.. it took me a few days to be able to find out that’s it had a name and I’m pretty sure it’s this I don’t know what to do
You remember when we all roleplayed stuff in like kindergarten? Yeah for me maladaptive daydreaming started there...Now I am roleplaying stuff...but with myself
Thank you this is exactly me! I have Maladaptive Daydreaming and I've been struggling with it since my childhood. I would like to get in touch with you to talk about it because I don't know anyone who has this and I'm pretty shy. Thank you for the video 😊
I have the opposite problem to your morning situation. I try to sleep but end up staring at my ceiling, daydreaming for hours and I snap out of it and then only sleep for a few hours. Thank you for making this. It isn’t talked about enough
I used to start high school at 8.30 and I would ale up at four am so I could daydream. Sometimes when I pause a daydream I pause everything, like the video I'm playing or the timer I have on I'll pause edit even when I'm not meant too. I sometimes whisper or say stuff that I'm not meant to in public, when I'm angry in a daydream I HAVE too mouth it and it's hard. I pace so much, my feet are in pain and when I pace I would like too the kitchen counter like bounce off it I guess and it got so bad my hands would be so sore but I would still do it. I had to wear a wrist brace cause my wrist hurt that much. My issue is I always want to be inside by myself so I can pace. I recently moved out of my house and I can't pace the same way and I hate it, the way I pace now is my back kills. I went home and paced the way I used too and now I get bruises on my hips when I hit it. It never used to be like that. I struggle with so much uni work, I'm always pacing.
I am 30 years old and I have been dealing with this a long time. I feel like it has completely ruined me. When I was a teen I hated high school and did excessive daydreaming to drown it out. At the back of my mind, I thought I would eventually outgrow it, but nope. 30 years old and my characters are still in my head. It saddens me that this daydreaming has made me miss out on real life experiences and friendships. I hardly have any nostalgic moments for real life experiences. It is so strange to have nostalgia for a daydream from 5-10 years ago (my "retired" characters)
I was looking up stuff about day dreaming or something like this I had hoped to find something because I was paranoid I was crazy or something or being stupid. I have few friends, but I don't really get along with others. I started homeschool because I couldnt handle other kids. I just wanted to day dream and not deal with others. And day dreaming was a way out? I guess..?? I draw my ocs EVERY day and daydream about them. They have become my closes friends there my get away, idk ugh I literally just stumbled upon this disorder (?). And I feel like it explains alot. I can barely sleep at night because I want to day dream of them all. I mutter to myself and sometimes I get emotional if I day dream something negative or sad about them, like you mentioned in the video. They are real to me. Idk. I love them. Im confused and struggilng a bit. Your video is bery helpful!!
I see from some of the comments that some people experience some positive effects from this MaDD curse. Some creative people find inspiration from it. But I would argue that many creative people can get their inspiration from meditation and being present as opposed to being lost in the fraking Twilight Zone like me. There are no benefits to this for me. It is all wasted time away from life and worse it is stressful to my heart and even my muscles when I go into my raging revenge fantasies and act of strangling people who have hurt me in the past or people who might insult me in the future. Added to that it is humiliating to get "busted" by people who catch me in the act of acting out my fantasies. It is added stress that I get lost when trying to drive somewhere because I forget wtf I was doing and missed the turns and then got upset at myself for being so stupid and then become more stupid because some areas of the brain get shut down from the stress and then I am unable to make sensible decisions. Some people are cursed with cancer or migraine headaches or addiction to alcohol or solitary confinement in an institution and I am cursed with wasting my life in this sick escape behavior. For me it would have been better to not have been born. I urge anyone with this issue to do everything you can to get out of it before you waste your life away.
I'm laughing hysterically because I can relate 100% to this and it just confirms my impending and current breakdown and midlife crisis. BTW I'm 21 and in gradschool 🙂
Thank you for making this video💕 I feel like I have maladaptive daydream but I’m to scared to talk to my mom about it this has really been affecting me 😕 but I would like to thank you for talking about it 💓
Does anyone else lay down on your side with the covers over you and listen to music while doing this! God it’s so time consuming idk where my life has gone:(
I relate to most of these, but that last one, absolutely breaks me, it didn't bother me as much before I knew what maladaptive daydreaming was, but I after I did, I think about how there's something really wrong with me, It didn't help that I paused the video right before it to daydream then that dream was cut short to the realization that I'm talking to no one. It's happening more often now and I hate it, I don't want to wake up from the daydream in the middle of it, it makes me really sad...
You won't believe this but i literally started day dreaming about we becoming friends, to having a long distance relationship to marriage to kids...insane isn't it...
I saw this video half and I actually stood up and daydreamed me being a professional 'Maladaptive daydreaming' expert and addressing the people in audience about my experiences.
Being able to simulate reality in your head and act like Sherlock Holmes in reality since you've already went through that experience is really nice. Although I tend to become a loner since no one really knows how and why I overthink and do it so vividly.
Oh jeez, this thing. I've personally had it for so long and so severely that I have forgotten the vast majority of all that I have learned in school(or maybe I didn't learn it in the first place, 'cause I was hopelessly trapped in my own head instead of listening to lectures lol). I am 18 years old, was a star student in my early life, always had top scores... etc. etc. You get the point. And now, here I am, a high school drop-out, sitting at home, trying helplessly to rein in my daydreaming(and cope with my extreme Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, but that is beside the point) long enough to study BASIC ALGEBRA for my GED for just. 30. Damn. Minutes. Please. And yes, there ARE good things about it, and that is most, if not all, of the problem. Reality is so incredibly disappointing that why would we even want to escape, right? Unfortunately though, we will all have to eventually... God has bigger things in mind for us all, and this daydreaming is ultimately like chasing the wind. No matter how hard we try, it will NEVER be real. And, I suppose the very first step to recovery is to just accept that fact. No matter how painful it may be... Anyways, thanks for listening to my stupid, self-loathing-filled rant. Sorry if it seemed like I was trying to boast at the beginning. I swear that I wasn't. I was just trying to show that this curse in the guise of a blessing can happen to anyone. Anyways, love you all. Wish me luck on the GED. I basically have to learn everything that I couldn't in high school. Toodles! (Edit: spaced the paragraphs out so this would be a little less worthy of r/walloftext lol)
I don’t think I have maladaptive daydreaming and I really don’t want to undermine the real thing cause I know that just because I daydream does not mean I have it. But a daydream A LOT. Often I class I just zoom out and think up a scenario in my mind and play it out. I sometimes mumble the words I’m thinking out loud I always have to pause a movie I’m watching or a book I’m reading because I just need to make a dream scenario out of a sentence I heard/read. Sometimes I cancel plans to daydream but never to the extent that it goes out on mu social life. That’s why I really don’t think I have it, it doesn’t really affect my life in general. Idk why I wrote this lol, I just kinda felt like it.
i relate to pretty much all of these, that last one got me though. it’s a horrible sinking feeling when i remember that it’s all made up and i can get as excited as i’d like to about daydreaming, but it’ll never actually be real. and it causes a major sense of dissatisfaction with my real life. like everything seems boring and like a letdown. it even affects my relationships, because i think i dream up this idea in my head about what my ideal relationship will look and feel like and all these things i think i’ll experience, and if find myself not exactly experiencing those feelings when i’m with a partner irl my brain panics and is like “do i even like them?? this doesn’t feel how it’s supposed to, it doesn’t feel how it does when i think about ________”. and then i have to remind myself that i made that all up and i have no idea how i’m “supposed” to feel. also for the thing about needing new places, i sorta relate- i like walking and listening to music and exploring new places by myself. but i find that places i’m familiar with (primarily my bedroom) are the safest places to daydream. so i generally prefer those because no one will see my weird facial expressions or ask me what i’m doing. so new places- yes, to a point.
when i didn’t know the term for maladaptive daydreaming i would hate going places for long periods of time with a lot of people or staying at sleep overs because i knew i wouldn’t be able to daydream. i would just call it “pace time” and if i couldn’t wait until i got back home i would go to a bathroom or something and do it.
I don’t remember exactly when I started daydreaming, but I remember it was around 5-6 years old. My biggest trigger is also pacing and my feat are always in pain sometimes.
I was daydreaming and being loud and practicing guitar and then I remembered my cousin was asleep and got so embarrassed. He never woke up or anything the whole time because he’s a heavy sleeper, but even if he did hear me I just tell everyone that I talk on the phone with friends a lot.
i can't beleive i'm not the only one... all these years i thought it was a funny little quirk😭. i'm so happy i found this community. you're never alone! take care everyone!💕
Sometimes i still cry really Bad when i realize My daydreams are not real and Will never be. At least i want to make them be book stories or tv shows or bring them to life trought art so i can be really harsh on myself in order to "make them a real thing" and it is exhausting honestly. Sometimes i feel like i'm half living for My daydreams
I love reading but it would take me months to finish a book, & sometimes a page would take hours, I would always thought that I had a procrastinate problem or have a bad focus. When I'm alone I would talk to myself. When in public, I would daydream to a point my facial expressions changes drastically. When trying to finish a task, I would tell myself "U HAVE TO GET THIS DONE NOW" but at a point I would literally daydream while doing stuffs. Worst part is I usually daydream of bad things happening to myself. I just heard about this, reading the comments calmed me cuz I thought I have this overthinking/focusing problem. Thank you.
I always wake up day dreaming I always have to play music and day dream. Even every Friday night I have to listen to music and day dream it’s so weird and also it’s already giving me headaches. Mostly everything in this video is accurate
My daughter is having this problem also. She would just end up crying and sometimes laughing. Sometimes she would just stare at something for a couple of minutes. I'm happy that she have watched this.
I get really depressed when I am hit with the realization that the scenarios that I have in my daydreams are not actual reality. I feel like I want to cry and get angry . It’s weird because I know that my daydream world is not real but I think there’s a part of me that thinks certain things are possible so when I realize that it’s not that’s when I get really upset.
I have this thing since I was a child and I hate it so much. Everyday I will wake up and imagine something from a story or from an idol. Real person or not. Sometimes I wil watch a video and I'll imagine myself doing that and I'll stand for like almost one hour. Or I'll run back and forth something like that and it's annyoing meee
Hello i m from Turkey you r not the only one of course and you are lucky because in your country this disorder is known some therapists and psycologist know maladaptive d. But there i cant tell it any therapist because they dont interest with your disorder they dont believe there is a problem like this
The worst thing for me is coming back and feeling pathetic for escaping in the dreams all the time. It's like I know why I do it and i really really dislike that about me.
sometimes i think if im going to be like this forever. it's miserable. I'm 14 and i started doing this 3 years ago. i didnt notice until now. i tell myself im crazy and insane everyday, feeling tired all time. everyday is repeating itself... i hate my life.
It's so good to know that I am not the only one. I turned 25 today and I have been daydreaming since 2nd grade (as far as I can remember)....that's 2002. I remember back during the school days, I was a good and bright student.....I was good at academics and sports and everything. But after School.......all I did was 'Daydreaming'..... fantasizing about things that I want to be (Physical attributes, Knowledge, Reading, photography, DIY, etc, etc)...but never ever did anything in reality. One good thing about Daydreamers is that we know the difference between imagination and reality.......we know the solution to every problem related to our mind....our brains.......but we just don't know how to channel out the talent of daydreaming into something creative that could nurture our potential in reality.......at least I don't. There is 'n' number of videos on the internet on how to be successful, creative, confident, happy.....blah, blah, blah, blah.....and they are all good.....but it won't help a man until and unless it comes from the inside of a man and WE DAYDREAMERS UNDERSTAND IT VERY WELL. I'm sure most of us have watched such inspirational videos but got nothing in return......because the answer is within us and not the outside.....but in today's world where negativity and tik-tok are too much......its difficult to understand ourselves. Daydreamers are extremely creative.......I have experienced it myself.......when I daydream......my thinking, vision, and creativity are on another level......but I can't explain the same to people around me. Inside my mind/brain.......I am the true me (remember, I am not thinking of any hypothetical imagination.........mostly I think/dream of myself as an alpha male who has 'Knowledge', 'resources to flourish' and develop further.) I always daydream of myself as a 'man on the path of "Productive Development" and Progress'. I want the "Knowledge".......I want "Resources" to achieve mental satisfaction which is a big deal for a daydreamer. There are Pros and Cons to everything and the same goes for Daydreaming. With time and age, my default habit of daydreaming has taught me about myself (It's easy to say but difficult to understand and achieve)............it has taught me that I want to have knowledge which is the ultimate answer to every solution a man can have for any problem........."Knowledge". This KNOWLEDGE will help me build my mental and physical health which is yet again another ultimate answer to life......a healthy mind and a healthy body. Please do let me know your thoughts. Open to everyone who understands what I am trying to say.
I always thought that there was something wrong with me and was afraid to describe what I was feeling because I thought that no one would understand me. Thanks so much for this video it’s very helpful 💗👍.
I've known for a bit that I daydream maladaptively, and you hear a lot about how it's sort of an escape from real life. Maladaptive daydreamers have many detailed universes and scenarios and stories that we just jump into to escape or procrastinate or pull ourselves out of a difficult situation. However, I don't see enough about the more negative daydreams. Many daydreams are actually negative and even violent. I've imagined myself in situations where I or people I know and care about have been hurt. I feel like we need to talk about that more. Also, many people may equated the daydreams to hallucinations, which is inaccurate as maladaptive daydreamers are aware of the fact that it's just a daydream, we are able to distinguish between reality and our imagination. Coming back to negative daydreams, you may be wondering why anyone would put themselves in a bad situation. Many times it's to know what we would do in such a situation or just to experience something we've always wondered about. Personally, I also have a depressive disorder which often results in me feeling emotionally numb, and daydreaming of something negative usually gets a stronger reaction out of me. Our daydreams are intensely vivid and there's virtually no limit on how or what we experience. So we often mumble during them, walk around, sing, dance, or just act out the daydream. I pace around my room a lot because if I walked around the house or outside, people would notice. Maladaptive daydreaming may seem like a quirk but I have lost hours or even a full day stuck in a daydream. I get triggered very easily. I'll be listening to a song and then pause it to play out my daydream, or maybe watching a movie or reading a book, or doing anything really. I'll always stop and let myself daydream which had prompted me to loose a lot of time. Because the daydreams are so vivid, we're able to spend a virtually infinite amount of time in them. Another thing that bothers me is that everyone I know and don't know and want to know are characters in my daydreams. For example, one of my daydreams takes place in hogwarts, but my close friends, other people I know, and even characters from other unrelated stories can show up. This bothers me because I am already non confrontational with people in my life, so if I ever have an issue I'll practice saying it to that person it in my daydream, but then I'll avoid actually telling them because I already have but not really. It's also concerning because everyone I know isn't just who they are, they're also characters, they're also figments of my imagination, which can be really weird because I've had multiple daydream conversations with friends and even my therapist, but those conversations aren't real. Maladaptive daydreaming can definitely be an escape, but it's maladaptive, which means it interferes with day to day life. I'm trying to be more present as of late, but I often slip into a daydream and realize "oh shit it's been 30 mins" or "wtf how is it 7pm it was 4 just two mins ago". And even though it interferes with my life, I can't imagine not daydreaming, giving it up would be like getting rid of a part of myself.
What I do is I listen to loud ass music and spin around in circles for so long I've been doing this for as long as I could remember and I just wanna stop already because I feel like I'm imaging a life that isnt mine and I JUST WANNA HAVE MY OWN LIFE I wanna be able not to day dream about a life that I want in real life it's so stress full and like she said I want to go out all the time because when I do I feel like I'm living in the moment I'm living feeling smelling the real instead of imaging the fake
1. I used to do that ALL of the time. I’ve gotten better at not doing that now, but that’s probably because I can’t wake up as early anymore, even if I try I’m to tired to daydream 2. I do just stop randomly for a few seconds sometimes, but usually people just think I’m having a bad day cause I look really sad, but I’m not, I’m just lost in my own little headworld 3. Mood. 4. Yeah, kinda the same. It doesnt help that I have H-EDS. It makes me hurt worse- 5. It’s easier not to focus when I’m not at home. Home is stressful. Whenever I walk to school it’s easiest to daydream. I don’t need a new path, just walking works because it seems like new senory cause sometimes I have to walk by a busy street, then a quiet neighborhood, then construction, then a nice small grassy hill with a few trees, then a slightly busy neighborhood, then a long road next to a busy street and a fence and ever once and a while I see a squirrel on the fence and it looks like a statue and sometimes there’s dead birds and stuff so it always seems new enough for when I get distracted from the senario in my head 6. Haha, ADHD and my own headworld get in the way far to much 7. It took me half an hour to figure out I ate a corn muffin for breakfast yesterday and I keep forgetting about chores and homework. Heck, I just forgot the word homework. Mom gets upset a lot because I forget stuff that I have to do a lot 8. Luckily I have a huge social life. I focus on everyone else but me, even my paras because I don’t want anyone upset with me. I like making others happy 9. I can read a book in a day or two if I want to, but if I don’t then I zone out throughout the thing constantly and I try not to but it’s so hard. It can be something for school, something that I enjoy, but If I dont want to read at that moment I physically can’t which makes school hard sometimes 10. 😰 Big problem. It’s very real to me. I had smol panik earlier cause my headword and my reality don’t, Can’t, coincide because, well, one is in my head. It sucks.
@@sadafahmad8980 honestly, probably because my mom is intelligent and so I’m expected to have higher grades, A’s and B’s. idk honestly, its kinda easy for me, lately its a bit harder. I guess I just ignore my head unless Im walking in the halls
I wanna cry because i never knew that daydreaming for hours on end was a problem but watching all these videos made me realize it, I honestly don't want too stop i'm happier when i daydream and i feel less stress i know it's bad but i don't want to stop
After years of suffering from this, I finally found a name for it. I’ve been trying to research it but I’ve never even heard of it so I didn’t know what to type into google. These videos just started popping up and I’m so thankful. It really affects EVERYTHING in my life and I hate it.
OH MY GOD. i just need you to know that you are NOT alone. Im watching your video and i seriously suffer the same issues as you, and it makes me feel less crazy seeing this ... i want to stop day dreaming but i dont want to stop ... i dont know what id do without them ...
Looking at this 1.5 years later...i look so sick and tired... This was definitely at a point when maladaptive daydreaming was a massive problem.
🤣🤣🤣 you look beautiful
i can relate too much
Is it much better now? What do you think helped you?
You look like me and talk like me... probably becoz we both are tired
I get that. It literally drains my energy because I can't take of myself as well as I should.
The baddest thing is that you actually enjoy your own daydreams
True, or because you're the hero of your daydreams =D
@@psyched3lic347 yeah. Yes. Oui. Si.
yeah.. because you never lose in your daydreams
xcean ;; but when u snap out of it, u can feel the pain.
PSYCHE DELIC
I’m the villan in my stories.
"There are good things about Maladaptive Daydreaming. That's actually the problem." So relatable. Couldn't have said it better.
YASSSSSS!!!
I'm an artist and aspiring photographer...my daydreaming is advantageous in that particular area of my life! But, other areas...
I always want to be somewhere new too! ...and yes, simple things take me forever as well...everyone gets annoyed with me. Lol
Actually my daydreams dont have a good side 🙁
Ok nobody gonna talk about all the injuiry i got from hitting the walls is this just me
JOANY I’ve tripped, bumped into things and dropped things all the time. Sometimes it’s a good thing cause it knocks me out of my daydream and I’m usually either too embarrassed or too pissed off to go back lol
1) Pacing
2) Difficult to focus and easy to disconnect with surroundings
3) Tired all the time
4) Irritation when your brain is running short on ideas
5) The frustration of never being able to output your daydreams because they'll never be as good as they were in your head
6) Lost all the time
7) PACING
8) Cranking up music until your ears are pounding just to submerge yourself as much as possible
9) Laughing/talking to yourself oh and crying and mouthing your or your characters' words
10) PACING/RUNNING
11) Repeating words and phrases to friends and family because it's difficult to output new information when your brain is stuck on a subject/scene for too long
12) HOURS CAN PASS LIKE _THAT_
13) Wanting to live in a more aethstetic reality e.g. neon, countryside etc. (it's suffocating for me because I live at a boarding school FML)
14) Not being able to explain yourself or your emotions
15) Not being able to explain MD to family and friends because let's be honest it is REALLY weird
And finally... it's ADDICTIVE *AS FUCK*
The only problems I have is the pacing and music emerging I can actually just repeat storyline if I have no ideas
And don’t forget PACING
The only thing I've never done is pacing/running but other than that I've experienced every single one of them
I pace in cirlces. Literally in circles while submerging my self in my music and people constantly look at me like ive lost my mind
Incognito Dorito damn it’s the same for me
Am I the only one who walks around in circles when I daydream? I even act as if I'm in my daydream (by act I mean by my facial expressions, being happy or sad)
You're not alone.
Same, it helps to continue the story better going in my head.
when i daydream, i walk around my house for hours, because for me it helps me continue the story better
I can start to cry or laugh...
I pace around,
I can’t read books anymore for some reason, I can read the words but after a few seconds I completely forget what I read
Sierra Trash At my job I'm supposed to read and sign papers and my boss always thinks I'm high and lazy because I have to reread them 😞. Do you ever have problems counting things? I noticed I'm constantly forgetting my count
That's why I read manga instead cz it has picture s which distracts my mind
oh thats wat happen with me. But i have a very stupid exam and .........i think i should die
Same. I have issues too.
Omg me too
I feel like i found my community😭😭😭😭😭😭
YAY! I am so happy you have found us. Welcome!
I know exactly How this feel!
I really thought it was just me I’ve been daydreaming since the 5th grade
me too!
Same!!
I thought I was the only one with this disorder, I’ve been doing it for my entire life. I’d lock myself away in my bedroom, walk around and pretend I’m the character that I’m daydreaming about. I’m a huge Star Wars fan and when I was younger I’d always daydream that I lived in the Star Wars Universe. I thought it was just something weird that I did. I never realized that it was a mental disorder and that many people have it until recently. Thank you so much for sharing
i do the SAME thing!!
Omfg i always do this whenever i read a new book. Like in my daydreams I'll insert myself as the main character.
Or whenever im watching a new tv show.
OMG I do too! Mine was Harry Potter instead of star wars though 😉
I actually didn't find out about this disorder until late last year when I was researching rare mental health disorders to try figure out what was wrong with me.
I thought I was the only one who suffers from this I just founf that I am not and this is has a name a few days ago
Also has anyone noticed how maladaptive day dreaming can affect your judgement and reasoning when your in reality? Kinda like being on drugs.
Very true it's make you think all the people in reality are as wonderful, genuine and friendly as in the dream
@@durgaambika4342 for me it’s the other way around. I get really annoyed at people because they aren’t as good as the people in my head.
@@spiritfang36aj47 same
My biggest issue is when people ask me to things in the middle of my daydream. Because when I do what they ask me to do i have to start the whole dream over. And my biggest insecurity is when I'm in my room and my windows are open I'm afraid my neighbors are watching me pace and talk to myself.
By the way I love your videos please keep them up. They make me feel less alone in my situation. Like I'm not crazy
the restarting... oh it's so annoying
I jump when I daydream, imagine seeing that.
Yes. My neighbors watching is one of the scariest things.
That's why I always keep them closed
number 10 is just the worst and also when people ask me why i'm smiling or laughing at nothing and i just reply with "just remembered something funny"
Gurthy Lala omg same!
Same lol
I use that same excuse😂😭
Same. So they know me as happy person
MEEEE
Pacing is something that I hear a lot of maladaptive daydreamers do but I literally need nothing to trigger my daydreams. It’s so easy for me to dissociate it literally takes no effort for me
I can also daydream with close to no stimulation....however i think its more with pacing it becomes almost impossible not to...if that makes sense.....hopefuly you are able to find a way to distract yourself.
nah pacing just hypes you up a little
I only need pacing when I daydream about sports or sth physically exhausting... Sometimes I start to run or jump randomly too, it's not like the movement is triggering the daydreams, the daydreams kinda make the movements happen
same. i don’t pace i just cuddle with my pillow and act like it’s my future husband...so yeah basically my pillow is my triggger
@@kassandra8973 THIS!!!!
Same here! Maladaptive daydreaming made me think im the dumbest and laziest person in the world!
I get it
Interesting. You have to go to new places to daydream. I have to stay in my room/ at home. I can't daydream in public. My parents think I'm extremely lazy because I'm just quietly in my room all day.
I think the fact that my parents have no clue why I have zero friends and no social life is really stressing me out lately.
Also, I could relate to that one point with the book. The moment you mentioned that I slowly turned my head to look at the book lying next to my bed (I started it a few weeks ago but well...)
I love watching your videos. It feels so good having someone to talk about this.
Pink Elephant I use to stay in bed to daydream...i use to spend %80 or more of my Daydreaming time in bed...however that changed over time.
I am glad you enjoy watching my videos! My goal is to make people feel less alone...and feel more understood.
I can relate I need to stay in my room all the time it's like my safe zone, what is worse my parents think that I have a lot of friends idk what gave them this idea, they think I stay in my room to study.
I understand, my parents always shout that I'm on my phone, because they think I'm on my phone, when I'm actually just daydream
I can’t do it anywhere but my bedroom. I usually walk around and mimic the character that I’ve become in my head
I just need to be moving. Pacing, driving in a car, taking a walk, riding a bike etc and then just daydream away
"Im not lost. Im lost in my head, but I'm not lost"
I do feel lost in my head everytime whatever im doing, wherever im going. Sometimes I would just find myself daydreaming again.
The spacing out, no having social life, not work, even reading a book is hard because the more you read the more your mind wanders into a world or situations that your brain wants you to imagine and create.
Also, watching fantasy things, like a drama or a movie and at the end, i continue the story the way how i wish, other endings.
Sleeping is hard too, the moment i close my eyes, i start thinking and imagine that someone is with me, talking to me, we are doing something, feeling it too real and then after a few days snapping out of it and reminded me that it's exactly not real just as you said, i feel ashamed most of the time because of that, like "that's never gonna happen, you are insane" and then i get back to the fantasy.
I don't know if this is something that needs to be analized professionally or is something that we don't know until we show symtoms, i mean, it's been like this since i was like 7 (i'm 29 years old now) , i remember finding me pouring water on cups because "my friend" was thirsty when i was 9, i think.
it gets addictive and most of the time gets in the way of my daily life and doesn't let me do things in the right way but i can't get out of it.
I have a social life .... Maybe bc my friends can put up with me....
I've been so embarrassed about this for years and started doing research to try to figure why I was always like this… im so happy I am not alone. I started crying I don't know why,,, just all these years I thought I was alone in my addiction
김종현 a year later I’m 100% in your position. I’m just so overwhelmed. I finally figured out what is wrong with me and especially that I’m not alone in that.
@Karen luvs Jesus Me too. I tried my best to not daydream outside tbh.
I’ve felt like a crazy person before like I’m sure all you guys have to lol, because you didn’t know what’s wrong with you 😂 especially when you’re like mumbling to yourself and someone sees you and you just say you were reading something or remembered something funny 💀
@@rosecabezas8249 yea I always did that too when ppl ask what I’m giggling or smiling abt I panic and I just go uhh I remembered something 🤣
Does anyone else who is an adult Make themselves younger and reinvent a new up bringing and family in a different world?
Rachel B I relate but instead I make myself older, with a job and stuff.
Rachel, I thought of million different versions of my upbringing...
ME...YES!
I do. I am always a young cool well loved high school teenager. When I thought about why I always dream of that, I realized it's because when I was in high school, I was the different opposite of" cool".
I certainty do that! It can really center around my familial upbringing.. Mainly because i feel my parents should not have been parents and severely failed me!
While watching this I started to daydream about talkin about mdd
Freaking same😭I just found about about this today and I paused it and started talking like I was doin a review video🤦🏽WTF😭
I started daydreaming about knowing what mdd when I was in high school so I could explain why I was zoning out in math class to my teacher cuz she was making fun of me in class and I had nothing to say to her cuz I didn't understand what I was doing..
SAME
My personal list:
1. When a really good daydream is interrupted and I forget what it was...I get beyond irratable.
2. Focusing on schoolwork is a nightmare.
3. If I don't daydream enough in a day, the day feels wrong and wasted.
4. Tired all the damn time.
5. I forget everything.
There's more but my brain stopped working so...
I was at the mall the other day by myself. And in my mind I was at the beach with my daydream boyfriend and he tackled me. And I just smiled and giggled alittle while walking past a crowd of people 😑😑
Lmao day dream boyfriend is brutal I hope you’ve gotten over it by now or atleast it doesn’t affect your daily life anymore
@@ryukobestwaifu3319 now her real boyfriend tackles her in the mall
Do you ever stop mid sentence not on purpose because your mind just made a new story?
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Yes all the time!
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Bruh I do that alot people think I'm crazy.
Keviona Richardson if this ain't me 😫
Ik this was two years ago but, yes lol
Also hello from Ontario Canada 🇨🇦
OMG. I always knew about this but never to this extent. I started researching more because i was starting to worry about myself. I know my family thinks my pacing is weird. I’m so embarrassed. i don’t know who i should tell about this, because like i feel it’s one of those things you know of but rarely gets talked about. I’m always in my head. It explains so much why i started struggling in school, and with tasks. driving would probably be difficult for me.. I’m glad I’m not alone !!! me and you are almost identical with what we experience. you should like message me or something jsjsjsjs
Amanda Beebe I’m a pacer too! My parents always used to wonder why I would just have headphones in and walk around the house and up and down the stairs. I can’t carry out a lot of my responsibilities in school because I get so distracted with a day dream.
Lauren Thomas The music thing is too real. I’m the same way. and yeah as i look back i always day dreamed in class....
Amanda Beebe omg me too! I’ve been researching a lot, this is been happening a lot to me like where ever i am I’ll just be day dreaming about everything especially when listening to music, I’ll be in my own little world :( it’s literally ruining my life and i don’t know who to talk about it bc i know my parents won’t take it serious at all :( there are wayyyyy too strict & won’t believe it at all
Keara Toné I literally feel so relieved that I'm not the only one who paces and listens to music. I used to think I had some sort of mental illness. I'm so glad you guys are here❤️
Turtle Queen I’m glad you’re here too! Just look at it as you have a very vivid and colorful mind! it’s not necessarily a bad thing
I do every single one of these things, it feels so good to know i'm not the only one😂💗
1. You rarely have good mood.
2. You know it’s bad but without it you just literally don’t live at all, even the fantasy life.
3. You are always out of reality and when you suddenly back to real world because someone ask you to for example give them you get nervous af not to make them angry.
4. You can’t explain even the simplest feelings.
5. Others’ happiness feels fake and annoys you.
6. It’s extremely easy for you to get angry.
7. You feel mentally drained 24/7.
8. You feel sad and lonely but when you have friends, it overwhelms you that you have to care.
9. You want to actually die but dying would mean no daydreaming.
10. You just feel like you are trapped in a wrong world.
You actually wanna die but dying would mean no daydreaming. This is so accurate oh my god.
I’m so glad this is being made public. Before the internet, I thought I was the only one. When i was a kid, I had a real normal life. When I was a teen this disorder started . My life and grades fell apart and I kept forgetting things or messing up things. The most painful part is the abuse from others. To me, it seems like the weaker you look the more people like to hurt u.
my folks would hit me every time I’d forget something, or scare the crap out of me by screaming at the top of their lungs, everytime I messed something up. My mom used to pinch me until my arm was black and blue for not socializing. This abuse didn’t help me overcome but made me stay in my head more.
My coworkers would give me hell pushing me around. shouting at me, insulting me, making fun of me, etc.
Anyway My question is; has anyone noticed or experienced abuse from other for not being alert?
I am so sorry to hear this has been your experience, i hope your situation has gotten better.
Its actually very common for people who maladaptive daydream to have experience some sort of repeated abuse in their life. Often abuse isnt because of the excessive daydreaming, however, the abuse often causes the daydreaming.
Unique Souls Well that is interesting. But yes Im glad to say I am doing better. 😊. I was able to get some therapy and it helped me understand that i just happened to suffer from the hands of a dysfunctional family who handled my situation wrongly. And as far as people outside the family, I also learned sometimes there’s a lot of insecure people in the world that need to make themselves feel superior by abusing people who seem weaker than them. But In reality, that really makes them the weaker ones.
@@UniqueSouls I take antidepressants for my MDD. I think it works. I don't daydream my day away anymore. Sometimes I daydream before bed but that's okay.
We have a lot in common. It's comforting to know there's others like me. I recently found out that I have this disorder after years of wanting to know. Thank you for sharing your own experience with it.
Iv tried to go places to avoid daydreaming as well.... I am home schooled so I spend majority of my time at home, which is a huge trigger for me. I was thinking about going back to public school so that it won’t be as bad.
I'm supposed to be homeschooled but im technically a dropout. A huge trigger for me too and i want to go back to school bc i miss having friends since i got lonely, i started to daydream about old friends. I dont wanna go thru the same bs school system again so im gonna study for a ged diploma instead & get a part time job
For those are suffering with this, try running with headphones for exercise at least thirdty minutes. This helps me get it out of my system for a while so I can focus on important things.
i wonder if maladaptive daydreaming causes some sort of like idk how to explain it but it reminds me of ADHD, for some of us it’s like we HAVE to do it to feel okay, which can be very addictive when it gets out of hand. for people with ADHD they tend to feel a need to move and struggle paying attention, basically what i’m saying is, i feel it has some aspects that ADHD has, and is definitely addictive, but i’ll try doing this:’) my daydreaming has gotten better, i used to do it almost all day when i was going through a lot of trauma but now i’m working through it and i’ve noticed it isn’t as bad but it is easily triggered and it isn’t hours at a time but small portions of my day and i’ll get frustrated and just stop what i’m doing because i can’t focus because daydreaming
Sometimes I came up with some very good histories, when I'm daydreaming. if only I had the patient and write them down. I would be a nice writer...CORRECTION..! we'd all be good writers!...thanks for sharing girl. peace...
I tried a few time but as soon as it's written down it reads like a super spacy piece of rotten bull shit, just my experience tho
For me I actually have to be in the same place because I know exactly where to go so my mind can fully unravel
Forever to do simple things...That's the main problem of MDD...especially assignments, reading books...They take an year for me...Damn I have 9 of these problems...The problem 5 is for me I can daydream anywhere in planet...It's high time we need a cure for MDD
Danny Benhur
Meditation is the cure probably. However the procrastinating makes that difficult for me personally.
@@straightastudent683 Well said
"There are good things, thats a problem". SO TRUE. There are so many bad things, but the good things make me very reluctant to try and stop it
Actually it isn't a good thing... it's just the dopamine boost that we get by md and too much dopamine boost is bad for us
I thought this was rare, until i wanted to know why im daydreaming for hours bc i began to think its an actual problem and i found it. I have adhd, anxiety, and have gone through depression. I daydream about being famous in acting & music and i dropped out of high school to pursue these dreams somehow. Not having school has made my mdd worse, but i felt uncomfortable having to stay in school for hours when i had the urge to daydream when I'm alone or moving. Im gonna study to get my GED diploma tho ❤
Does anyone else get that empty feeling when their daydream 'prompt' ends?
Yep yes
I day dream while walking, running, eating ,driving, watching, working、every day every hour i day dream. I voluntary or unvoluntary day dream and u know i can control it sometimes but there are sometimes i can control it like i can turn it on and off but malfunction sometimes.
Does daydream affect your driving capabilities, because soon im getting my driving license and im terrified of driving because i daydream a lot almost all the day,i cant stop thinking what if i hurt someone or myself.
@@aidazani5990 daydreaming was the reason i never got in to cars or driving them,because of daydreaming all the time i might cause accidents or worse kill myself during driving on the road.My family makes jokes about me saying "i would never let you drive a car because you will kill yourself because of daydreaming",and they are correct,this disorder is just sick to my opinion and i feel sorry for myself that i lost a huuuuge amount of my life time doing usless things.
@@3RM4L but did you get over it? Do you still daydream?
@@aidazani5990 not entirely,it was worse 3 or 4 years ago,puting headphones on my ears and acting like i was that person doing something very big,music played a huge part of my triggering issue.Im still fighting it,at least now i know its a bad thing and defocused me a lot from my daily routine it was horrible.
@@3RM4L gosh Im sick of it.Its ruining my entire life idk what to do
Every time I’m at home I dance while listening to music in my own world and feels real it’s fun then I realised It ain’t real and I feel sad I just found out about maladaptive daydreaming and realised I had it. It’s 3am and I was dancing in bed daydreaming I do this every night and at school and I’ve done it since I was a kid cause life was hard as a kid and a teen and it made me feel better
when you’re on a road trip and the car stops abruptly and you immediately miss the feeling of moving.
I can relate to you deeply. I've always been a lonely soul, always been seen as a weirdo, always had problems holding down a job because of my maladaptive daydreaming. No one could understand why I talk to myself.
One of my oldest daydreams is going back in time to get revenge - or actually just handle a traumatic experience differently, and sometimes it feels like if I can just remember /imagine one thing perfectly, I will actually transport there.
Also, I think the movie "somewhere in time", is about mdd maybe?
For the longest time I always daydreamed thinking that I was so creative but in the end it's a prison. It's so addicting because every second I entertain my daydreams it's an instant high I always want to just get up and pace back and forth in the middle of the night. I used to read all the time but this year it's been so slow and difficult. I used to ready this book on meditation every day but now that I cant focus, my stress had gone up :( iv always been shamed for not paying attention and that I dont take things seriously enough because i'm in my head. It's honestly a big relief to know there are others like me 🙏
I definitely maladaptive daydream cause of loneliness, and well, it's there to fill the void but lately it feels like it's only been eating at that void and making it larger.
I feel you.
I had madd for some years but only knew the term for it recently. I am quite happy that I found your channel and it feels good to know that I am not alone in this.
P. S: Great work with the videos and lots of love.. 💙💙
Awww thank you for your kind comment 😀...it means alot!
The thing I hate is that I love it so much. My life would be so boring without it
same..bc we daydream abt stuff that we wish to have in reality and if i dont daydream abt myself with all the stuff i want, my life will also be boring
I told myself I would write a book of all my daydreams and get paid for these ideas. I have some really good plots 😂
Also, I'm tired of being tired 😂
That's why I started writing scenarios for movies, literally 😅
Me and my cousins used to make a lot of cringy movies lol, for some reason particularly horror movies, or comedy movies. so, since I’m also a maladaptive daydreamer I was always the director, writer, and editor since I had all the plots. I never acted in them
I can daydream some crazy shot but can’t write it:/
Ok, so first of all, thank you from the bottom of my heart for making this and speaking about this. I just can't express it . But you have really changed my life. Thanks a lot
Hi imma just say something. I just found out what maladaptive dreaming is and I think I have that when I’m alone for some reason I even act them out (the dreams )I’m kind of scared but no one knows that I do it and I’m scared to tell them but it’s kind of fun. Is that bad? XD but I’m glad there’s more people out there like me good luck friends
I do that too. I sit in my room or pace and listen to music. I go to a certain memory and have the people I miss. I tell them about recent activities and how I am. It helps when I'm stressed and upset. I could so it for hours. I say what I'm talking about out loud and they speak to me in my head but it's me creating what they say. When I'm alone I just pretend they are around it helps me focus on things and be motivated.
kaycca I can almost do anything in dreams like a lot of things and yes I do that too
kaycca I fell on the floor when I was day dreaming on my bed 😂 my knees now have bruises
I act them out too, and I mouth the words
Destiny Gallagher I feel like mine is getting worse and it’s like I know it’s strange so most of my daydreams start with me holding my phone, I’ll be in my apartment alone I have thin walls my neighbors probably hear me rambling but I pretend I’m i. The phone and do exactly what you do and it goes on for hours at a time, yesterday I did it for 4hrs and I’ve noticed my phone calls with my mom and brother have went from 15 minutes to 3hrs and I’m wondering if I should be worried or try to get some help or something.. it took me a few days to be able to find out that’s it had a name and I’m pretty sure it’s this I don’t know what to do
You remember when we all roleplayed stuff in like kindergarten? Yeah for me maladaptive daydreaming started there...Now I am roleplaying stuff...but with myself
Would you reveal what you daydream about ? That would be cool I understand it would be very difficult to deal with
I'm loving the ambient sounds 😌
Thank you this is exactly me! I have Maladaptive Daydreaming and I've been struggling with it since my childhood. I would like to get in touch with you to talk about it because I don't know anyone who has this and I'm pretty shy. Thank you for the video 😊
I have the opposite problem to your morning situation. I try to sleep but end up staring at my ceiling, daydreaming for hours and I snap out of it and then only sleep for a few hours. Thank you for making this. It isn’t talked about enough
I used to start high school at 8.30 and I would ale up at four am so I could daydream. Sometimes when I pause a daydream I pause everything, like the video I'm playing or the timer I have on I'll pause edit even when I'm not meant too. I sometimes whisper or say stuff that I'm not meant to in public, when I'm angry in a daydream I HAVE too mouth it and it's hard. I pace so much, my feet are in pain and when I pace I would like too the kitchen counter like bounce off it I guess and it got so bad my hands would be so sore but I would still do it. I had to wear a wrist brace cause my wrist hurt that much. My issue is I always want to be inside by myself so I can pace. I recently moved out of my house and I can't pace the same way and I hate it, the way I pace now is my back kills. I went home and paced the way I used too and now I get bruises on my hips when I hit it. It never used to be like that. I struggle with so much uni work, I'm always pacing.
I am 30 years old and I have been dealing with this a long time. I feel like it has completely ruined me. When I was a teen I hated high school and did excessive daydreaming to drown it out. At the back of my mind, I thought I would eventually outgrow it, but nope. 30 years old and my characters are still in my head. It saddens me that this daydreaming has made me miss out on real life experiences and friendships. I hardly have any nostalgic moments for real life experiences. It is so strange to have nostalgia for a daydream from 5-10 years ago (my "retired" characters)
I’m with you
Fuck man I feel that shit I have nostalgia for something that never even happened 💀
I feel like a horrible person for being annoyed at ppl trying to talk to me irl because I’d rather daydream?
fr i just rolled my eyes at her for talking bc i was zoning out
Omg the paralell universe thing is so true for me haha
I was looking up stuff about day dreaming or something like this I had hoped to find something because I was paranoid I was crazy or something or being stupid. I have few friends, but I don't really get along with others. I started homeschool because I couldnt handle other kids. I just wanted to day dream and not deal with others. And day dreaming was a way out? I guess..?? I draw my ocs EVERY day and daydream about them. They have become my closes friends there my get away, idk ugh I literally just stumbled upon this disorder (?). And I feel like it explains alot. I can barely sleep at night because I want to day dream of them all. I mutter to myself and sometimes I get emotional if I day dream something negative or sad about them, like you mentioned in the video. They are real to me. Idk. I love them. Im confused and struggilng a bit. Your video is bery helpful!!
The problem is that I am nothing without my daydreams.. I can't stop
I see from some of the comments that some people experience some positive effects from this MaDD curse.
Some creative people find inspiration from it. But I would argue that many creative people can get their inspiration from meditation and being present as opposed to being lost in the fraking Twilight Zone like me.
There are no benefits to this for me. It is all wasted time away from life and worse it is stressful to my heart and even my muscles when I go into my raging revenge fantasies and act of strangling people who have hurt me in the past or people who might insult me in the future.
Added to that it is humiliating to get "busted" by people who catch me in the act of acting out my fantasies.
It is added stress that I get lost when trying to drive somewhere because I forget wtf I was doing and missed the turns and then got upset at myself for being so stupid and then become more stupid because some areas of the brain get shut down from the stress and then I am unable to make sensible decisions.
Some people are cursed with cancer or migraine headaches or addiction to alcohol or solitary confinement in an institution and I am cursed with wasting my life in this sick escape behavior.
For me it would have been better to not have been born.
I urge anyone with this issue to do everything you can to get out of it before you waste your life away.
I'm laughing hysterically because I can relate 100% to this and it just confirms my impending and current breakdown and midlife crisis. BTW I'm 21 and in gradschool 🙂
Thank you for making this video💕 I feel like I have maladaptive daydream but I’m to scared to talk to my mom about it this has really been affecting me 😕 but I would like to thank you for talking about it 💓
When you are pacing then you automatically acts, think, and talks like someone else...
Does anyone else lay down on your side with the covers over you and listen to music while doing this! God it’s so time consuming idk where my life has gone:(
I relate to most of these, but that last one, absolutely breaks me, it didn't bother me as much before I knew what maladaptive daydreaming was, but I after I did, I think about how there's something really wrong with me, It didn't help that I paused the video right before it to daydream then that dream was cut short to the realization that I'm talking to no one. It's happening more often now and I hate it, I don't want to wake up from the daydream in the middle of it, it makes me really sad...
You won't believe this but i literally started day dreaming about we becoming friends, to having a long distance relationship to marriage to kids...insane isn't it...
I can’t even enjoy music anymore. Every time I listen to music I start Imagining scenarios depending on the type of music.
I saw this video half and I actually stood up and daydreamed me being a professional 'Maladaptive daydreaming' expert and addressing the people in audience about my experiences.
Being able to simulate reality in your head and act like Sherlock Holmes in reality since you've already went through that experience is really nice. Although I tend to become a loner since no one really knows how and why I overthink and do it so vividly.
Oh jeez, this thing. I've personally had it for so long and so severely that I have forgotten the vast majority of all that I have learned in school(or maybe I didn't learn it in the first place, 'cause I was hopelessly trapped in my own head instead of listening to lectures lol). I am 18 years old, was a star student in my early life, always had top scores... etc. etc. You get the point.
And now, here I am, a high school drop-out, sitting at home, trying helplessly to rein in my daydreaming(and cope with my extreme Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, but that is beside the point) long enough to study BASIC ALGEBRA for my GED for just. 30. Damn. Minutes. Please.
And yes, there ARE good things about it, and that is most, if not all, of the problem. Reality is so incredibly disappointing that why would we even want to escape, right? Unfortunately though, we will all have to eventually... God has bigger things in mind for us all, and this daydreaming is ultimately like chasing the wind. No matter how hard we try, it will NEVER be real. And, I suppose the very first step to recovery is to just accept that fact. No matter how painful it may be...
Anyways, thanks for listening to my stupid, self-loathing-filled rant. Sorry if it seemed like I was trying to boast at the beginning. I swear that I wasn't. I was just trying to show that this curse in the guise of a blessing can happen to anyone. Anyways, love you all. Wish me luck on the GED. I basically have to learn everything that I couldn't in high school. Toodles!
(Edit: spaced the paragraphs out so this would be a little less worthy of r/walloftext lol)
I feel you.
I don’t think I have maladaptive daydreaming and I really don’t want to undermine the real thing cause I know that just because I daydream does not mean I have it. But a daydream A LOT. Often I class I just zoom out and think up a scenario in my mind and play it out. I sometimes mumble the words I’m thinking out loud I always have to pause a movie I’m watching or a book I’m reading because I just need to make a dream scenario out of a sentence I heard/read. Sometimes I cancel plans to daydream but never to the extent that it goes out on mu social life. That’s why I really don’t think I have it, it doesn’t really affect my life in general. Idk why I wrote this lol, I just kinda felt like it.
i relate to pretty much all of these, that last one got me though. it’s a horrible sinking feeling when i remember that it’s all made up and i can get as excited as i’d like to about daydreaming, but it’ll never actually be real. and it causes a major sense of dissatisfaction with my real life. like everything seems boring and like a letdown. it even affects my relationships, because i think i dream up this idea in my head about what my ideal relationship will look and feel like and all these things i think i’ll experience, and if find myself not exactly experiencing those feelings when i’m with a partner irl my brain panics and is like “do i even like them?? this doesn’t feel how it’s supposed to, it doesn’t feel how it does when i think about ________”. and then i have to remind myself that i made that all up and i have no idea how i’m “supposed” to feel.
also for the thing about needing new places, i sorta relate- i like walking and listening to music and exploring new places by myself. but i find that places i’m familiar with (primarily my bedroom) are the safest places to daydream. so i generally prefer those because no one will see my weird facial expressions or ask me what i’m doing. so new places- yes, to a point.
I don’t allow myself to enter into romantic relationships because it would disturb my maladaptive daydreaming.
when i didn’t know the term for maladaptive daydreaming i would hate going places for long periods of time with a lot of people or staying at sleep overs because i knew i wouldn’t be able to daydream. i would just call it “pace time” and if i couldn’t wait until i got back home i would go to a bathroom or something and do it.
I don’t remember exactly when I started daydreaming, but I remember it was around 5-6 years old. My biggest trigger is also pacing and my feat are always in pain sometimes.
Any video ideas?? or ask me a question and if I have enough, I'll do a Q and A
My question is how do you control it?
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When you day dreaming do you think about your goal?
Do you feel this was caused by trauma ?
I was daydreaming and being loud and practicing guitar and then I remembered my cousin was asleep and got so embarrassed. He never woke up or anything the whole time because he’s a heavy sleeper, but even if he did hear me I just tell everyone that I talk on the phone with friends a lot.
i can't beleive i'm not the only one... all these years i thought it was a funny little quirk😭. i'm so happy i found this community. you're never alone! take care everyone!💕
Sometimes i still cry really Bad when i realize My daydreams are not real and Will never be. At least i want to make them be book stories or tv shows or bring them to life trought art so i can be really harsh on myself in order to "make them a real thing" and it is exhausting honestly. Sometimes i feel like i'm half living for My daydreams
Omg the first one is so true. I'll wake up at like 4 in the morning with the need to and pace and daydream
I love reading but it would take me months to finish a book, & sometimes a page would take hours, I would always thought that I had a procrastinate problem or have a bad focus.
When I'm alone I would talk to myself.
When in public, I would daydream to a point my facial expressions changes drastically.
When trying to finish a task, I would tell myself "U HAVE TO GET THIS DONE NOW" but at a point I would literally daydream while doing stuffs.
Worst part is I usually daydream of bad things happening to myself.
I just heard about this, reading the comments calmed me cuz I thought I have this overthinking/focusing problem. Thank you.
I always wake up day dreaming I always have to play music and day dream. Even every Friday night I have to listen to music and day dream it’s so weird and also it’s already giving me headaches. Mostly everything in this video is accurate
My daughter is having this problem also. She would just end up crying and sometimes laughing. Sometimes she would just stare at something for a couple of minutes. I'm happy that she have watched this.
I get really depressed when I am hit with the realization that the scenarios that I have in my daydreams are not actual reality. I feel like I want to cry and get angry . It’s weird because I know that my daydream world is not real but I think there’s a part of me that thinks certain things are possible so when I realize that it’s not that’s when I get really upset.
I hate catching myself frequently in a day dream- and then feel guilty that I'm not living in the "moment"
I have this thing since I was a child and I hate it so much. Everyday I will wake up and imagine something from a story or from an idol. Real person or not. Sometimes I wil watch a video and I'll imagine myself doing that and I'll stand for like almost one hour. Or I'll run back and forth something like that and it's annyoing meee
Hello i m from Turkey you r not the only one of course and you are lucky because in your country this disorder is known some therapists and psycologist know maladaptive d. But there i cant tell it any therapist because they dont interest with your disorder they dont believe there is a problem like this
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+Seyhan Turhan ahahah mübalağa or for serious???
Hi zeynep l'm toka from Egypt and l think that not many people in my country know about this matter so l don't think of seeing a doctor
The worst thing for me is coming back and feeling pathetic for escaping in the dreams all the time. It's like I know why I do it and i really really dislike that about me.
sometimes i think if im going to be like this forever.
it's miserable. I'm 14 and i started doing this 3 years ago.
i didnt notice until now.
i tell myself im crazy and insane everyday, feeling tired all time.
everyday is repeating itself...
i hate my life.
BRUH I THOUGHT I WAS JUST WEIRD I MIGHT CRY I've had to stop this videos once to day dream
It's so good to know that I am not the only one. I turned 25 today and I have been daydreaming since 2nd grade (as far as I can remember)....that's 2002. I remember back during the school days, I was a good and bright student.....I was good at academics and sports and everything. But after School.......all I did was 'Daydreaming'..... fantasizing about things that I want to be (Physical attributes, Knowledge, Reading, photography, DIY, etc, etc)...but never ever did anything in reality. One good thing about Daydreamers is that we know the difference between imagination and reality.......we know the solution to every problem related to our mind....our brains.......but we just don't know how to channel out the talent of daydreaming into something creative that could nurture our potential in reality.......at least I don't. There is 'n' number of videos on the internet on how to be successful, creative, confident, happy.....blah, blah, blah, blah.....and they are all good.....but it won't help a man until and unless it comes from the inside of a man and WE DAYDREAMERS UNDERSTAND IT VERY WELL. I'm sure most of us have watched such inspirational videos but got nothing in return......because the answer is within us and not the outside.....but in today's world where negativity and tik-tok are too much......its difficult to understand ourselves. Daydreamers are extremely creative.......I have experienced it myself.......when I daydream......my thinking, vision, and creativity are on another level......but I can't explain the same to people around me. Inside my mind/brain.......I am the true me (remember, I am not thinking of any hypothetical imagination.........mostly I think/dream of myself as an alpha male who has 'Knowledge', 'resources to flourish' and develop further.) I always daydream of myself as a 'man on the path of "Productive Development" and Progress'. I want the "Knowledge".......I want "Resources" to achieve mental satisfaction which is a big deal for a daydreamer. There are Pros and Cons to everything and the same goes for Daydreaming. With time and age, my default habit of daydreaming has taught me about myself (It's easy to say but difficult to understand and achieve)............it has taught me that I want to have knowledge which is the ultimate answer to every solution a man can have for any problem........."Knowledge". This KNOWLEDGE will help me build my mental and physical health which is yet again another ultimate answer to life......a healthy mind and a healthy body.
Please do let me know your thoughts. Open to everyone who understands what I am trying to say.
I always thought that there was something wrong with me and was afraid to describe what I was feeling because I thought that no one would understand me. Thanks so much for this video it’s very helpful 💗👍.
I hate that my trigger is windows, I dont know what it is about them but they seem to just put me in this trance.
Anyone else get this?
I've known for a bit that I daydream maladaptively, and you hear a lot about how it's sort of an escape from real life. Maladaptive daydreamers have many detailed universes and scenarios and stories that we just jump into to escape or procrastinate or pull ourselves out of a difficult situation.
However, I don't see enough about the more negative daydreams. Many daydreams are actually negative and even violent. I've imagined myself in situations where I or people I know and care about have been hurt. I feel like we need to talk about that more.
Also, many people may equated the daydreams to hallucinations, which is inaccurate as maladaptive daydreamers are aware of the fact that it's just a daydream, we are able to distinguish between reality and our imagination.
Coming back to negative daydreams, you may be wondering why anyone would put themselves in a bad situation. Many times it's to know what we would do in such a situation or just to experience something we've always wondered about. Personally, I also have a depressive disorder which often results in me feeling emotionally numb, and daydreaming of something negative usually gets a stronger reaction out of me.
Our daydreams are intensely vivid and there's virtually no limit on how or what we experience. So we often mumble during them, walk around, sing, dance, or just act out the daydream. I pace around my room a lot because if I walked around the house or outside, people would notice.
Maladaptive daydreaming may seem like a quirk but I have lost hours or even a full day stuck in a daydream. I get triggered very easily. I'll be listening to a song and then pause it to play out my daydream, or maybe watching a movie or reading a book, or doing anything really. I'll always stop and let myself daydream which had prompted me to loose a lot of time. Because the daydreams are so vivid, we're able to spend a virtually infinite amount of time in them.
Another thing that bothers me is that everyone I know and don't know and want to know are characters in my daydreams. For example, one of my daydreams takes place in hogwarts, but my close friends, other people I know, and even characters from other unrelated stories can show up. This bothers me because I am already non confrontational with people in my life, so if I ever have an issue I'll practice saying it to that person it in my daydream, but then I'll avoid actually telling them because I already have but not really. It's also concerning because everyone I know isn't just who they are, they're also characters, they're also figments of my imagination, which can be really weird because I've had multiple daydream conversations with friends and even my therapist, but those conversations aren't real.
Maladaptive daydreaming can definitely be an escape, but it's maladaptive, which means it interferes with day to day life. I'm trying to be more present as of late, but I often slip into a daydream and realize "oh shit it's been 30 mins" or "wtf how is it 7pm it was 4 just two mins ago". And even though it interferes with my life, I can't imagine not daydreaming, giving it up would be like getting rid of a part of myself.
My son no longer feels weird or alone since he discovered what he has. 28 he better understands his childhood and adulthood.
What I do is I listen to loud ass music and spin around in circles for so long I've been doing this for as long as I could remember and I just wanna stop already because I feel like I'm imaging a life that isnt mine and I JUST WANNA HAVE MY OWN LIFE I wanna be able not to day dream about a life that I want in real life it's so stress full and like she said I want to go out all the time because when I do I feel like I'm living in the moment I'm living feeling smelling the real instead of imaging the fake
Thank you for making me feel valid. I’ve been so alone with my maladaptive daydreaming and you made me feel less alone . Thank you so much!
1. I used to do that ALL of the time. I’ve gotten better at not doing that now, but that’s probably because I can’t wake up as early anymore, even if I try I’m to tired to daydream
2. I do just stop randomly for a few seconds sometimes, but usually people just think I’m having a bad day cause I look really sad, but I’m not, I’m just lost in my own little headworld
3. Mood.
4. Yeah, kinda the same. It doesnt help that I have H-EDS. It makes me hurt worse-
5. It’s easier not to focus when I’m not at home. Home is stressful. Whenever I walk to school it’s easiest to daydream. I don’t need a new path, just walking works because it seems like new senory cause sometimes I have to walk by a busy street, then a quiet neighborhood, then construction, then a nice small grassy hill with a few trees, then a slightly busy neighborhood, then a long road next to a busy street and a fence and ever once and a while I see a squirrel on the fence and it looks like a statue and sometimes there’s dead birds and stuff so it always seems new enough for when I get distracted from the senario in my head
6. Haha, ADHD and my own headworld get in the way far to much
7. It took me half an hour to figure out I ate a corn muffin for breakfast yesterday and I keep forgetting about chores and homework. Heck, I just forgot the word homework. Mom gets upset a lot because I forget stuff that I have to do a lot
8. Luckily I have a huge social life. I focus on everyone else but me, even my paras because I don’t want anyone upset with me. I like making others happy
9. I can read a book in a day or two if I want to, but if I don’t then I zone out throughout the thing constantly and I try not to but it’s so hard. It can be something for school, something that I enjoy, but If I dont want to read at that moment I physically can’t which makes school hard sometimes
10. 😰 Big problem. It’s very real to me. I had smol panik earlier cause my headword and my reality don’t, Can’t, coincide because, well, one is in my head. It sucks.
How do you manage your studies with this?????
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@@sadafahmad8980 honestly, probably because my mom is intelligent and so I’m expected to have higher grades, A’s and B’s. idk honestly, its kinda easy for me, lately its a bit harder. I guess I just ignore my head unless Im walking in the halls
I wanna cry because i never knew that daydreaming for hours on end was a problem but watching all these videos made me realize it, I honestly don't want too stop i'm happier when i daydream and i feel less stress i know it's bad but i don't want to stop
After years of suffering from this, I finally found a name for it. I’ve been trying to research it but I’ve never even heard of it so I didn’t know what to type into google. These videos just started popping up and I’m so thankful. It really affects EVERYTHING in my life and I hate it.
OH MY GOD. i just need you to know that you are NOT alone. Im watching your video and i seriously suffer the same issues as you, and it makes me feel less crazy seeing this ... i want to stop day dreaming but i dont want to stop ... i dont know what id do without them ...