imagination and sudden, weird excitement

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As I remarked on a thread earlier, I have a video imagination. That means that I can recreate entire made up scenes very, very vividly in my head almost at will. An interesting feature of this, to me, is a sudden urge to run/jump over something. This is especially strong if the scene in my head involves the hero or heroine fighting or running. I've actually crashed into stuff and have gotten injured kind of badly because I've accidentally gotten out of my chair and have run/jumped across a certain room in a sudden excitement fit.

This happens only every once and a while, and with very strong emotional scenes only. Most of the time, I just almost shut down stare at something in the background while the scene is playing out in front of my eyes for a period of a few seconds to a few minutes (I see the wall/scenery in front of me, but it doesn't really register in front of the scene playing in my head, if that makes any sense).

I'm the only person who I know who does this often, so does anyone else do this on this forum? Another question of mine is that is it kind of common among people with Aspergers who have a similar imagination to have sudden fits of excitement or shutdowns due to a certain scene playing around in their heads?

Sorry if this post is extremely long, I'm in a particularly confused state of mind tonight when it comes to expressing myself verbally.

I can also create mental images and scenes. It sometimes has an exciting affect on me but I don't jump over things. But other times my brain won't work and the images are very vague and dreamlike.

I don't know if I have quite the imagination as you have but I think I know what you're talking about. Whenever I get swept up in a thought I get this strong urge to move about and put a soundtrack on it. Movies, books, and homemade fantasy characters are usually the subject.

I felt I had to grab my headphones and do a brisk walk around the room to keep the thoughts and images going. At one point, these two activities were so Pavlovian in their relation to each other that I was treadmilling while listening to my iPod three hours/12 miles a day just so I could extinguish (or trigger?) those increasingly distracting daydreams. It wasn't just body movement that did it; it was movement in general. The headphones/daydream combo worked just as well on a moving bus.

My baseless theory: I realized that maybe all that running around could be my body's roundabout way of giving my restless mind what it craved. My mind wanted a picture show 24/7 and my body ensured this by increasing the amount of oxygen going to my brain via elevated heart rate.

Isn't this an example of what people in this community call "stimming?"

What you describe seems similar to sleepwalking, your imagination being so vivid that it puts you in dream-like state.

I usually have the urge to walk, jump, loudly whistle, run, etc. to get the overexcitement out when I get triggered by something that gets my blood running (cool actions, adventure, etc.) - Happens to me while reading books, watching a movie, listening to music, sometimes even art.

I also have a vivid imagination, nice way to spend time when you have nothing around you
Daydreaming is a nice escape hatch to Relaxation Land

Cheerfully,
Wallourdes

I also have a very vivid imagination, and when that imagination is having an exciting time, I do tend to have adrenalin start flowing. I'lll start to twitch and flinch, as if I am watching an exciting movie or something.

As a kid I used to act out my imagination. I recall an embarrassing episode of me acting out a scene in the rain and the neighbour watching me.
Now I do get so caught up in it that I have strong emotions and sometimes, I speak my thoughts out loud.

I do things like that. My imagination is very vivid, like watching movie. Sometimes I get really into whatever I'm imagining, and I just zone out and stare at the wall. I don't really feel compelled to act out things that happen, but sometimes my facial expression will change. Like if I'm imagining a confrontation, I'll unconsciously clench my jaw and furrow my eyebrows. And sometimes I have to get up and walk around because I just can't sit still.

I get it very often for many of the reasons given above. It feels like I'm on a major high. I got somewhat similar response occassionally with narcotics. I think that's why they're so addictive. And why my special interests are so addictive. I sometimes feel like I discovered the secrets of the universe, even though after the fact, it seems like such a trivial thing.

Hee Hee Hee! I do stuff like this all the time! It drove my Mom nuts. I run/skip/pace more than act out the sceens, but I have started doing that more as I have become more aware of the importance of people's gesture's and facial expresions in conversations. I wish I could keep still while letting my imagination go, but it's almost impossible, the urge to move is too strong. Sometimes I am not really aware of the decision to start running and only notice that I am doing so after I have begun. I also sometimes feel strong urges to run/jump spontaneously without any imaginary sceens if I'm stressed. Regular exercise seems to help manage this and I'm working on going on 'planned' runs in a nearby park in an attempt to spare the poor people in the appartment below me from thumping serenads. Alas, it's just not the same.

I can totally relate to the vivid daydreams, speaking out loud, acting it out, moving the way they do.... Whenever i have my mind to my own the daydreams start and i really hope that when i sit on the bus or tram nobody notices my wild innerworld .... I'm not sure though.

But at home, when i have my mind and the house to my own, i often blind the windows and dive deep into the daydreams. It always involves my own fantasycharacters and storyline. I act out and design every detail of a certain situation for weeks on end. But when someone is around i rarely ever do that because they dont need to know or dont need to see. The fantasies are private. Sometimes i go upstairs and play things out quietly.

My bf knows i have this world but i don't show it to him. He knows though that i need this privatetime and he's ok with it.

One thing that scares me though is that i speak in my sleep. I'm afraid i speak in my daydreams aswell. Sometimes when i get back to earth i get terrified because i'm scared i started talking out loud!

Well, im not sure yet...