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Maladaptive Daydreaming
Are you a maladaptive daydreamer? How do you cope, and what are your main daydreams/fantasies?
Often maladaptive daydreams are prompted by 'triggers' which may include conversational topics, sensory stimuli, or physical experiences. Maladaptive daydreamers may also experience trouble completing routine tasks or going to sleep, due to their desire to continue daydreaming. Oftentimes while maladaptive daydreamers are daydreaming, they will whisper, talk, make facial expressions, or do some sort of repetitive movements, such as pacing. Maladaptive daydreamers can spend hours simply daydreaming. They may have elaborate fantasies within their minds, often comparable to a complete novel or movie. Many have more than one fantasy in their mind, each with its own characters, setting, plots, etc. (source:wikipedia)
O.M.G. I've been doing this for forty years at least. I don't whisper, talk, etc, but I can spend hours in bed after waking up on weekends, just daydreaming. Or a couple of hours before sleep, going through my daydream "novels." Too many to remember. When I was younger they often revolved around me. Now that I'm older I guess I feel I don't d...... 1 reply
i'm so glad someone posted this because i would have never known it was an actual thing if it wasn't for this post. "they will whisper, talk, make facial expressions, or do some sort of repetitive movements, such as pacing," i literally do this all the time, and i used to think it was just me being a really good and involved actor while thinking lo...... 1 reply
I don't know am I a maladaptive daydreamer? every time when go to school and sit in class i think about anime,me,family and many other things it's like i creat a book inside of my head and countinue it i don't even notice what the teacher is saying or doing only if someone says my name i answer them but if they don't talk to me at all i would proba...... reply
Huh, never realized there was a name for it. Yeah, I do it a lot, usually whenever I hear music. I tend to daydream, structuring them around the song I'm listening to like a really elaborate music video.
Usually I daydream about fantasy settings, like "This person has power X, but the price is Y, this is the story of why they finally decided to ta...... reply
Yep. That sounds a bit like me. I've been daydreaming ever since I was little. I usually like to sit on my bed or pace next to or around a table or something thinking about the characters and what will happen to them.(I'm actually considering writing a novel on taptastic). Sometimes, I have a hard time falling asleep because of my active mind, but...... 3 reply
So I'm a maladaptive daydreamer. I didn't know till now that there was a term for what my fantasies all these years. Though the triggers from daydreams are mostly from animes, mangas, or books I have read/watched then imagining myself as a new character with awesome powers and a tragic background. reply
I've been doing this so long that I have no idea how long it's been going on. My triggers are mostly music but sometimes books and fan fictions. Dreams are my worst triggers though, because they're so vivid and I remember them so clearly. Sometimes I wake up and I just continue the dream and it goes on like that for days or even weeks. I also like ...... reply
I am! A little too much tho. I forget A LOT of reality because of that. I have more eh...practice? now so I can kind of force myself to do something else but I still end up doing a lot of important stuff really late just because of that. I actually hate it.
I created so many different stories, sceneries and characters that I even have a lot of no...... reply
Not sure o.o but I have a tendency to fantasize different situations and day dream all the time, or even worse constantly start randomly describing things when I'm outside x3 though that's more of a consequence of being a writer (or an aspiring one at least ⁄(⁄ ⁄·⁄ω⁄·⁄ ⁄)⁄ ) reply
