Excessive Daydreaming?

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Does anyone besides me do this? I can be walking and I'll start daydreaming. I do it less than I use to but I think I do it more than what's normal.

I love daydreaming, but I usually save it for when I go out running with my music on. I just adore the pretty mental imagery I get...

Oh yeah. That's been a big "problem" my whole life - the reason my parents started taking me to psychs and neurologists at a young age. The reason I was considered a "special needs" child at school, etc.

I'm glad I don't literally run into lamp posts anymore, but I do miss daydreaming to the extent that I used to. Everyone around me treated it like a serious defect that I was supposed to over-come. I disagreed, but because I've been surrounded by that perspective since early child hood, it inevitably had some effect.

I still daydream "excessively" compared to most people, but it does not entirely prevent me from going to school, holding a job, and such. Personally, I'd prefer to be immersed in day dreams all the time, but it would make it hard to carry out basic activities that are essential to life as an adult. I wish it didn't have to be that way.

I daydream too much. It's like my brain's on over drive sometimes.

Life wouldn't be worth living, if I couldn't day dream. It's what makes me go on, despite everything.

it's something that happens when my mind would otherwise be on 'hold' ;showers, rush hour traffic, long walks at work, etc.

Daydreaming is my most favouritist thing in the world.

Doesn't everyone? I constantly daydream, sometimes to the point of losing my senses to the dream.

When I don't have anything to think about I'm day dreaming, even while watching a movie.

Speaking of movies, why haven't there been any actually good movies to have come out recently, while there are not too many good video games coming out either.

the most important affliction known to millie.
hyperfocus zone out daydreams that know no bounds.
they really do interfere with normal work practices - but then i have never been able to hold down a proper job anyway.

onward, upwards and back to the movie pics upstairs...

On with the show this is it........

what's up doc?

I don't think "normal" people do. It's one of the reasons I started seeing a psychiatrist back before I got my diagnosis.

The psychiatrist just told me I was depressed... daydreams result of avoiding life... blah blah... have some Paxil... blah blah....

Some of my daydreams are day nightmares. I find myself on the verge of screaming then I realize I am in public.

yes - everyone dissociates to varying degrees and daydreams. BUt people on the spectrum tend to do it much more frequently so that it can interrupt normal social relating. In addition, the quality of our daydreaming is far more intense.
I live with a movie screen in my brain and so i find comprehending people hard because the visuals i make actually overpower the words coming in. then i can have a kind of white shards crash as i call it, where things malfunction upstairs because i cannot cope with the verbal imput from someone else and also the pictures i am making. hand flapping around the ears begins at this point....

Wow, I daydream ALL the time. I don't think it's to avoid life. It's just part of my life and part of who I am. No one ever seemed to have a problem with it when I was a kid (or now), but I was a kid back in the days before everyone became obsessed with DOING and ACHIEVING 24/7. Nowadays, there is no room for daydreaming or reflection. Kids get daily homework from kindergarten on, and people are expected to bring their work home with them. It's not healthy at all. People need time to sit and be alone with their thoughts, and daydream.

I daydream only if I'm relaxing or waiting for the doctor or dentist to come to the waiting room and call my name. I daydream about shows or movies that I've seen on TV or about having a girlfriend.

Is daydreaming an autistic or aspergerian trait?