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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)
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
I love daydreaming. I allow my mind to pleasantly wander very often, but sometimes it will happen when I'm not controlling it, and sometimes it isn't very pleasant. When I'm anxious I will have daydreams of dying in many different ways. killing myself in various fashions, or getting murdered, etc. Sometimes I just get severely injured instead. I am...... 1 reply
i also didnt know this had a name xD i do it everyday (usually when i wake up and before bed but sometimes i stay up all night because i daydream for hours) and i always pace around the room and talk or make expressions. well i actually have my own characters and setting but everyday is a different story usually inspired by a manga, movie or whatev...... 1 reply
I can't fall asleep unless I add up to my current fantasy XD I had asked myself if other people do the same thing, but would have never imagined it was such a huge thing! I have been like this since I was a kid. I think of myself as a weird hyper active person. While hyper active kids can't concentrate cuz they want to be playing and stuff... my mi...... 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
I'm a maladaptive daydreamer, I make scenarios in my head so much that the things I create get mixed up with the memories I lived. so many times, friends and family would tell about the great thing we did a while back and how awesome I was in some situations and I just sit and think "did I do that? I thought they left on their own. hold on! I actua...... 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
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
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
