Im not the only one then?

[Kay M]

I found this from an article a friend who is into psychology posted it on Facebook, and I then realised I was not alone.

 

I have been daydreaming since I was small. There was one point as a teenager where I didn't do anything else, but now I am older, it is now more manageable.

 

Mine have always come in a few flavours-the series one and the one off ones. I have the ones about me and people who I really admired (either celebrities or people I had a crush on), which is usually about me meeting them and becoming their friend, or rescuing them from something and then they really like me after that. These are usually the kind of thing I dream of over and over again, with little variation, reusing the same few plots, but changing the person as life changes and crushes move on. I also have a few non romantic ones, like having the ability to go into the TV or pull things out, having a supernatural experience, or meeting a miniature human the size of a doll.

 

Then there is the series ones. I have had a few of these, and they are mostly based on large families. I have a bit of an obsession with large families and multiple births, and always wished I had a really big family.

 

In the first, I was 13. It was the one that became a real obsession. I had loads of siblings. I was one of triplets, and my triplet sisters were called Katie and Marie.  My existing siblings were part of it too, and we still lived in the same house (no idea how we all fitted, I never addressed that). I also had an older sister, a brother between me and my sister and my sister had a twin brother. There is 10 years between my sister and my little brothers, and in this gap there was another two boys and three girls-the youngest two girls were identical twins. Then my 3 year old brother was also one of triplets and my one year old brother had a twin sister. 18 kids under 16. I got too far into it, I imagined they came everywhere my family went, and made up conversations between my real siblings and my fake ones. I also used to pretend my triplet sisters were in my class at school, and sit somewhere where there was space for them to sit with me.

 

I did make up an online identity for one of my characters, when I was 16 I did a few posts on an internet forum as Rachael, who had a twin brother, two older sisters and a bunch of younger siblings. She was one of nine. I stopped doing it after a few months because I felt bad about lying to other people.

 

My current one has been going on for two years. In my dream, I married someone I had a crush on since I was about 17, and adopted a bunch of kids. Including her real kids, mine, and the ones we adopted, we have 16. We also have a whole zoo of exotic pets (snakes, tarantulas, lizards), as well as four cats and a dog. This version of me also has a pile of distant relatives who are mostly insane, like a crazy aunt who thinks she is pregnant with the second coming of Jesus (and has been for well over a year now!). I also gave myself two older siblings, just because I always wanted older siblings. Two of my daydream daughters are the two separate sides of my personality-the one I am when around strangers, and the one I am around friends.

 

The story progresses in real time, people get older and it is always today's date. I plan events for their future, like weddings and births, and sometimes think of the future, or think back in the past. Also I write a diary in character of the alternate me (I change my own name and those of real life people when writing it down so nobody knows), have a spreadsheet of important information about all of the relatives, and a family tree of them, as well as those ticker things counting how old a child is for all 16 kids and all babies born into the family since the story started, and the progression of various daydream relatives pregnancies. I have drawn a floor plan of their house, pretended to do a Q&A session based on questions people have asked on Facebook groups and blogs related to real large families, and I research and plan their events and vacations.

 

Ive tried to make it into a story, but my brain cant translate it into writing as there is too much going on at one time, so I keep to journaling from the me character's point of view.

[The1andonlyAbber]

I also daydream about large families a lot. My MD started when I created an imaginary brother. I'm an only child and have always hated being an only child. I have hardly any real-life extended family. I also daydream about crazy relatives, LOL.

My character lives in a big old mansion with an older sister (adopted), 2 younger sisters (1 biological, 1 adopted), and a younger brother (adopted). There's also an older brother (biological) that she doesn't know about. Her parents never told her about him. They thought he died before my character was born, but it turns out he was kidnapped (the kidnappers made it look like he drowned after falling off a cliff into the ocean). She also has numerous aunts, uncles, cousins and family friends that live in the mansion. There are a few additional relatives that live elsewhere.

And the pets...don't get me started on the pets. In my imaginary world dragons are real.

[Kay M]

In real life I have a small family too-well, oldest one of six (and I hated being the oldest, which is probably why my characters always have an older sibling or two), four kids, and my aunt and uncle each have four kids too, but each of my parents was one of just two.

 

But in my daydream, there are way more of us. Theres a few hundred relatives, and having 8-10 kids is normal for them.

 

It started when I decided that my character would have a family reunion, then to add drama, I decided the rest of them would be crazy. I do have my favourites of the relatives though, that she is closer with, who have backstories, including a cousin who has always been the golden child for his narcissistic mother, but then went against her to break free and take his two younger twin sisters (who are in their late teens) to live with him, the really crazy religious aunt who is currently 18 months pregnant with the second coming of Jesus (and is planning to steal a baby to get her glory back among the members of the cult she is in), and the daughter who she secretly gave fertility drugs to so she would get pregnant with quintuplets and get plenty of attention (this is just the oldest one, she has 13 others too-she stole the uterus of one of the others because her own wore out. They have all been adopted by various relatives-I have 6 of them who turned up on my doorstep one day in my daydream). Then theres another who identifies as neither male or female, one who is a young mother of two who took on raising her three teenage brothers and a gay 14 year old cousin.

 

There are also numerous family friends, including one who is a promiscuous sociopath with 7 kids (with 4 fathers), who currently has two boyfriends and is pretty much a scam artist.

 

My job in my daydream also involves investigating supernatural mysteries.