Have any Aspies here "floated away", so to speak?

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What I mean by floating away is getting lost in imaginary settings, daydreaming, befriending fictional characters, giving human traits to toys, and so on? Guilty of that, right here. I am a card-carrying example of what TVTropes calls a Cloudcuckoolander. It wasn't just limited to childhood; I gained a reputation in my high school Economics class as the resident Robin Williams. I think that Mariemaia from Endless Waltz is deadly cute (I had a crush on her as a first-grader), and I like cheese. As a writer, I have such sympatico with my characters that I can easily go into a trance and become them. I even went so far as to buy an eyepatch just so I can transform into my mad scientist character, Klaus Krieger.

I can be down to Earth... if I want to. House once said that normal is overrated. I wholeheartedly agree!

Yes, though I did it a lot less when I actually had friends and stuff to do sometimes. Now I spend so much time in my head even I find it a bit disturbing.

I daydream all the time, especially when I'm listening to music and pacing. I consider my favorite fictional characters to be my imaginary friends, talking to them, bonding with them and even going through ups and downs with them as in any other relationship. I even had a romantic relationship with one of them once. I also believe that my toys have feelings, that they love me as a child would love their mother - being happy when I treat them well and being sad when I neglect them.

Also, sometimes after I watch a movie or television show and I really "connected" with one of the characters, I'll feel like I actually am that character for a little while. The most intense instance of this was that after I had watched the movie Secret Window for the first time, I felt like I was Mort Rainey for about a day or two. I even talked like him (though thankfully no one noticed, because no one else in my family has seen that movie). It felt like Mort had hijacked my mind - almost as if I were possessed by his spirit.

I daydream all the time. Sometimes I do it without even realizing it. I guess that's why I rarely ever get bored.

I get lost in thought, but I'm easily snapped back into reality.
My dreams are pretty insane, though.

Not so much these days but when I was younger I would completely miss my bus stop and once in middle school I sat through a period with the right teacher but the wrong subject and didn't realize it until the end of the class

"Hey Shatbat, what were you thinking about? "

"Eh... stuff ^_^"

I am in my early 50s, and have been a lifelong daydreamer. I don't believe in the characters in my various daydream universes--I know they are fictional. It is just a form of personal mental TV entertainment to me. I sometimes put the characters in situations that I have been in, or might be in in the future, as a way to try out different solutions to the scenarios, too. Usually I am on the outside looking in--like an author/creator/scriptor of the stories and characters. Only once in a while do I do day dream story lines where I am in the story. I guess I prefer to be an outsider--even in my own mind. One exception is when I hear a nice piece of orchestra music. I will sometimes create a mental fantasy orchestra to go with the music. In the fantasy I am every member of the orchestra. Each version of me wears a different dress or tux, etc. Each "me" has a different hair style, plays a different instrument, and so on. This fantasy always amuses me, and boosts my mood, because it's so silly, but pure fun. I have no musical talent of my own, but I do enjoy listening to it. This is yet another way for me to enjoy it.

I catch myself floating away, many times a day. I have a very wild imagination.

Yes, mostly it's because the world of humans, roads, buildings can be boring. So I "dress it up a bit" by giving things life. All the things in my house are candidates for pretending.
(Some really old dolls my grandmother passed down to me were terrifying, way too alive, so I gave them away.)

For example, yesterday a little bank building with a drive through window happened to be a good place for me to do a U turn. Boring. But the building was resentful of the truck using "its" space like that and it said, "silly little box with rollies thinks it's so cool 'cuz it can move. Truck then apologized for invading building's space, and peace was restored.
generally, for obvious reasons, I keep this stuff to myself but sometimes it's kinda funny. Funny is good.

I have emotional attachment to some objects, but I rarely play with them in my mind as if they were alive. It would be hard with a tape recorder, for example. I guess I lack imagination, of any kind...

Once it happened, though, when I was about 7 or 8, that I saw a classic movie about Oliver Twist (the poor orphan boy in Dickens's novel), and I felt totally connected to him, so for a few days I felt as if I were him. I was so high I embarrassed myself many times by telling silly things and behaving strangely.

Still have "conversations" with imaginary people all the time--mostly semi-famous people I'd like to meet. I'm never lonely, even when I'm alone because I always have someone to talk to.

I haven't gotten involved with a book or film character in a long time, but as a kid, I became fascinated with Jodie Foster's character in Freaky Friday and dressed and acted as much like her as I could.

I'm very aware of the difference between fact and fiction - perhaps over-acutely at times. But I do live inside my head a lot, doing the kinds of things described in this thread. Yes, I do often get pretty lost in thought, and sometimes it delays my daily activities a bit too much. I have to wonder if, like listening to the same song over and over, running the same scenario through my head repeatedly is a form of stim...