Excessive Daydreaming?

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Excessive daydreaming is one of my biggest problems, I've almost been run over crossing busy streets as a result of my regular visits to lala land . I'm pretty sure it's going to be the death of me.

I daydream most of the time

I love daydreaming but I often do it too much. I end up completely switching off at school and get completely lost when I've stopped daydreaming lol

I daydream a lot. But I love doing it too, as it tends to be about my obsessions.

Never. I can't. I think a lot but I found this isn't the same as day-dreaming because I'm absolutely aware of everything.

Another daydream believer topic

My daydreams are like plays, of course all visual, and become so vivid that I talk out loud to myself, sort of directing the dream, being both in it and looking in at the same time. Sort of a paradox. I could live like this always. A basis for stories, too!

I am an inveterate daydreamer, and I'm pretty sure that my daydreaming is what some people would consider excessive; but I know that in my daydreams I get along with everyone and everyone gets along with me, and so it's a world I like living in. And usually when someone tells me to "snap out of it," my mind just wanders off to dreaming again.

Same here... but I DO live like this always... there's always some story (or more likely two or three different ones) going on in my head at all times. Most are fairly mundane - imagining ordinary conversations with people I know, for example - but some are wild to the extreme, like a complete fantasy world. It's hard to keep focused on conversations (REAL ones) and tasks, though it doesn't usually affect my work (I'll even incorporate my work into my dreams, imagining I'm talking while working, or explaining what I'm doing to someone in my dream). I do NOT have imaginary friends, though! I know the difference between daydreams and reality.

I know it's not 'healthy' for me - I know I do it too much. I don't know how to stop it. I gave the following poem to my shrink, and I told him this is how I am all the time - this is how my head works:


And what did my shrink say when he read it? "Do you hear voices?"

grrrr......

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All the time. It led to a lot of problems when I was younger, but I figured it was a reaction to not being challenged in school. I'm still a total space cadet as an adult, but I mostly do it when I'm really bored. It's easy to stop doing it when I'm engaged in something I actually want to do.

The reason I started seeing a psychiatrist when I was 18 (and this was before I even knew aspergers existed) was because I was daydreaming, and had been all my life, just SO MUCH. People would talk to me and I wouldn't hear them because I'd be locked in something. I'd be thinking of a project I'd be working on... a screenplay, story, novel and have it all visualized already.

It's amazing how far I've managed to get on stories just because I've daydreamed them well in advance of sitting down to write them.

This is how I cope in situations where a lot of people are talking (like... group therapy for one): I just flip into a daydream.

That was a beautiful poem. I could relate to it 100 percent. What a dumb s**t your shrink is!

Thanks everyone for responding. I was just really curious if anyone else does the same thing.