I JUST WANNA TALK ABOUT THIS! DONT GET MAD OR ANYTHING! I think I may be a Maladaptive Daydreamer. It’s not to bad, but it’s developing. I’m not complaining, it makes life so much more fun! These are the symptoms: - extremely vivid daydreams with their own characters, settings, plots, and other detailed, story-like features - daydreams triggered by real-life events - difficulty completing everyday tasks - difficulty sleeping at night - an overwhelming desire to continue daydreaming - performing repetitive movements while daydreaming - making facial expressions while daydreaming - whispering and talking while daydreaming - daydreaming for lengthy periods (many minutes to hours) Now these are what I do: -daydream as much as I can -daydream in the middle of class, then realise I’m in the wrong reality and I join back. (Not helpful. Lol) -Have very detailed daydreams -have many daydreams that are like stories, based on comfort streamers. -go to bed and start day dreaming, then can’t tell if I’m asleep or not. (Don’t normally fall asleep for like 2 hours after going to bed) - tend to see things in the real reality and it reminds me of my reality. - can be triggered by songs. - have multiple realities. -emotionally attacked to the characters What I don’t experience: - seeing the characters infront of me. - do it while I am hanging out with friends - talk out aloud (sometimes I do but not normally) - it’s not a big problem to me. These things also might happen for other reasons, (like the ADHD I probably have (not diagnosed.) and other things) but I dunno. “Maladaptive daydreaming usually occurs as a coping mechanism in response to loneliness.” seriously spent a whole day imagining my ideal self. It was on an amazing farm, and it was raining in real life, but in my day dream I was running around a forest after being sucked into a video game, and so where a whole bunch of streamers I watch. We because close friends and we had to try and survive and figure our how to get back into real life. It’s been 6 months, we still haven’t left the game, we all agreed it was much better here. <3 These characters are my best friends, and I love them.
