Do you daydream a lot?

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yellowtamarin
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16 Sep 2012, 1:28 am

Hardly ever. I'm quite sure I daydream less often than the average person.

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16 Sep 2012, 1:54 am

I daydream. Often about theories I have, or questions I have on how things work. Recently I texted my Dad a question about two-dimensional universes at 2am, because my daydreaming was keeping me awake.

Sometimes it interferes with my studying though, and that upsets me.

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16 Sep 2012, 2:14 am

SteelMaiden wrote:

Sometimes it interferes with my studying though, and that upsets me.

Me too. I enjoy my daydreams, but they can really mess up my studying. It's a serious problem for me. I just don't seem to have an off switch for daydreams. It's the part of AS that bothers me most - I feel it stops me doing things I really want to do, because I can't focus on things that aren't daydreams.

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16 Sep 2012, 2:27 am

LtlPinkCoupe wrote:

IdahoRose wrote:

I daydream constantly. I feel more at home in my imaginary world than I do in the real world.

I couldn't agree more with this!

Same here! I've my own imaginary life and world that I go to almost all the time. Plus it's a great escape when real life gets a little hard to handle.

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16 Sep 2012, 3:48 am

Yeah, constantly. And I don´t care whether it´s normal or not.

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16 Sep 2012, 4:16 am

Civ001 wrote:

And I mean more than normal? I am 18 and I have a tendancy to daydream obsessively during the day and it has gotten a lot of reactions from other people to think that I am "Slow" in a sense. I would like to know if other Aspies do this as well and have gotten this reaction.

It's called "Maladaptive Daydreaming".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maladaptive_daydreaming

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16 Sep 2012, 12:15 pm

Zexion wrote:

Civ001 wrote:

It's called "Maladaptive Daydreaming".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maladaptive_daydreaming

Here is a link to a thread I made a long time ago about "maladaptive daydreaming". It has a poll too.LINKWP

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16 Sep 2012, 2:23 pm

yes all the time

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16 Sep 2012, 2:27 pm

Yes i do and i am pretty much in my own world to be honest.

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16 Sep 2012, 2:54 pm

And all this time I thought my daydreaming was the result of all that time spent on tractors with nothing to do.

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16 Sep 2012, 5:36 pm

Yup. That's probably part of what keeps me up at night, but I don't know how to shut it off, nor am I sure that I even want to.

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15 Dec 2012, 3:56 am

Yes I do all the time, the best thing about it is that Im never bored I dont understand how people can ever get bored. That and I love it!

Anyone else have several fantasy worlds and alternate realties in their head? I've done it since I was kid most of them are based around characters from my favorite TV series with new characters I've made up.....thought I would've grown out of it by now. Now I'm starting to think this excessive daydreaming is with me for life

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15 Dec 2012, 4:39 am

I daydream so much. I always get told off for it.

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15 Dec 2012, 5:09 am

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Idibutitrynottobecauseineedtofocusonstuffijustread ifyoujustreadthishaha

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