All Discussions Tagged 'tell' - Wild Minds network2024-03-29T13:23:27Zhttps://wildminds.ning.com/forum/topic/listForTag?tag=tell&feed=yes&xn_auth=noWhat genre does your daydreaming world typically reside in? Mine is the last thing others would expect.tag:wildminds.ning.com,2018-02-08:4661400:Topic:2781002018-02-08T03:25:11.497ZSidefirehttps://wildminds.ning.com/profile/Sidefire
<p>I've noticed that many people have different types of worlds they go into. Many of them are fantasy-based, but there are also action-adventure, mystery, drama, and love-driven ones I'm sure. </p>
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<p>So I'm typically a shy, polite girl. I'm scared of everything, especially hurting others' feelings. Others see me as kind, caring, and sweet. As an empath who just wants to make others happy, people are always shocked to hear about the terribly gory, violent horror "stories" I create.…</p>
<p>I've noticed that many people have different types of worlds they go into. Many of them are fantasy-based, but there are also action-adventure, mystery, drama, and love-driven ones I'm sure. </p>
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<p>So I'm typically a shy, polite girl. I'm scared of everything, especially hurting others' feelings. Others see me as kind, caring, and sweet. As an empath who just wants to make others happy, people are always shocked to hear about the terribly gory, violent horror "stories" I create. Yes, even when I first began writing my daydreams down in 5th grade (my daydreaming started when I was around 5 years old), they were still a bit disturbing for an 11 or 12-year old. </p>
<p>Now I'm not an angry or violent person in the slightest. (When I get upset, I take it out on myself. You'd have to do something just awful to make me angry at you.) I've thought in the past that my daydreaming could be like this because I have a pretty boring and mundane life with little control, and the anxiety/depression I've experienced may have also influenced it. Either way, my daydreaming world is the safest place for me to go. In the past I've managed to stop myself from cutting myself in the last second by immersing myself so deeply in the other world. (For you who have self-harmed, you understand how hard it is to stop yourself, all by yourself.) </p>
<p>Anyway, the character I possess is always the protagonist. Always a heroic and incredibly brave figure, always the one who is tortured or hurt the most. Always the one who has people who care about him as if he's changed every single one of their lives. Always the one who endures the most pain, usually physically but often mentally so as well. There are often times where I even shift the character I possess in scenes where someone different would fit that description at the time. </p>
<p>I've explored all kinds of horrific situations, and have even been murdered a couple times (only to come back one way or another). In my other world, I've endured death, intense beatings, stab/gun wounds, exorcisms, waterboarding (along with a long list of other methods specifically for torture and interrogation such as rat torture or white torture), kidnapping cases, lots of comas, drowning, illness, fire burns/smoke inhalation, the physical and mental pain of slowly becoming a monster, surgery (one of my phobias), dissection, lots and lots of needles/syringes, chloroform, blindness/deafness, starvation, poison, being eaten alive by beasts, soul being eaten alive by entities and demons, being possessed by a demon, choking/strangulation, struck by lightning, amnesia, hypothermia, carbon monoxide poisoning, being drugged and falling into insanity, suicide, child abuse, vampires (yes I had that phase, and ever since it was incorporated into my daydreams it's held a special place in my heart <3), hypovolemic shock, paralysis, disarthria, seizures, sudden cardiac arrest, sodium thiopental, and <span style="font-size: 10pt;"><em>oh my land the list just goes on and on</em></span>. I think I've made my point here. I used to always joke to myself that every single character I've ever possessed has incurable PTSD. </p>
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<p>Sorry you had to read all that. The strange thing is, although I've explored so many different types of violence [so much that I can recite the rate in which oxygen levels drop in an air-tight room depending on the volume and the amount of people in it, recount endless facts about comas and sleep, give an abnormally long list of torture/interrogation methods along with the details of what they do, how it works, what it feels like, and the psychological affects it has on the person,] it has never crossed the line between my daydreams and the real world. I'm just another author; Stephen King was never a murderer or violent person, and neither am I. I just find so much excitement and adrenaline when I'm in those positions, fighting for an idea or to protect a person or even just myself, and I always have that support system I never had in my waking life. </p>
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<p>Sorry, I went on much longer than I thought I would. Just some interesting things (again don't worry I'm not some serial murderer) </p>
<p>I'd love to hear about the genres you guys have explored, too! If you feel comfortable, share why you think you lean towards that genre and feel free to give examples since I've spoken so much here~ </p> Should I?...tag:wildminds.ning.com,2011-12-15:4661400:Topic:696962011-12-15T10:08:20.989ZWish Upon A Wishhttps://wildminds.ning.com/profile/wishuponawish
<p>Okay, a while ago I went to the doc for minor depression, turns out I had glandular fever (well, when I got the blood test, it had been gone for only a short while) and got sleeping pills and blah blah, and I have another appointment on Tuesday (20th Dec, NZ time, so about 7 - 12 hours ahead of most of you. Which means I'll need answers a bit before then) Who thinks I should tell the doc about MD? I have Cordellia's article, and Cynthia's study printed off, and I'd gladly give them to him to…</p>
<p>Okay, a while ago I went to the doc for minor depression, turns out I had glandular fever (well, when I got the blood test, it had been gone for only a short while) and got sleeping pills and blah blah, and I have another appointment on Tuesday (20th Dec, NZ time, so about 7 - 12 hours ahead of most of you. Which means I'll need answers a bit before then) Who thinks I should tell the doc about MD? I have Cordellia's article, and Cynthia's study printed off, and I'd gladly give them to him to look at, but he's kinda, well, I don't know how to put this nicely, but he's kinda old. A good doc, but old, so he might not be so open to the possibility of me having MD, or of it existing, though I think he's look at it.</p>
<p>IknowI've said I wanted to tell Mum, and was planning to, but I never actually have got around to it (I just don't know when.... I will try soon, but I'll keep putting it off, I know) she she doesn't know yet. It's be annoying if I brought my little Swiss Co-op bag along and she says I should leave it in the car, or not take it with me into the roomy thing even though it's have my papers in it if I do try to tell him....</p>
<p><strong>Okay,</strong> basically<strong> </strong>should I talk to the doc about it, and give him the papers? Or should I not say anything, because I don't know how open he'd be to Maladaptive Daydreaming's existence....?</p> Am I a maladaptive Daydreamer ?tag:wildminds.ning.com,2010-11-11:4661400:Topic:28372010-11-11T23:23:40.000ZSujin Kimhttps://wildminds.ning.com/profile/KediaSujinA
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif"">When I was younger, I didn’t have an imaginary world, unlike others. In fact, I started having one at the age of 8-9, when I immigrated
to Canada.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif"">First, I need to know if it is maladaptive daydreaming.…</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif"">When I was younger, I didn’t have an imaginary
world, unlike others. In fact, I started having one at the age of 8-9, when I immigrated<br />
to Canada.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif"">First, I need to know if it is maladaptive
daydreaming.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span> So please tell me if they<br />
are symptoms ! <span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>(:</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif""> </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif"">So basically, I always (and by always, I mean
it) daydream about fantasy worlds.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif"">Let me explain myself.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif"">When I was younger, when it all began, I would
imagine this family I had. I was blond (while in reality I am black) and I had<br />
a blond husband and blond kids … well, just like Barbie and Ken and their kids,<br />
even though they didn’t have kids … I think.<br/>
In total, I had 10 kids. I can remember some of their names. First, there was Britney,<br />
then Bradley, then Brandon … The rest, I forgot. I can remember their ages<br />
though XD<br/>
Britney was the oldest and was 17, then there was a 15 year old, then a 14 year<br />
old, then the twins were 12 and were named Bradley and Brandon, then a 7 year<br />
old, then a 5 year old, there was a 4 year old, then twins that were 1 year<br />
old.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif"">As I grew up (age 10-11), the ethnicities
changed. For example, at some point, the 4 year old was an adopted girl from<br />
Africa and was named Zara. Then the youngest turned out not to be twins, and<br />
one was two and was adopted from Asia while the other was a newborn.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif"">From 11 to 13, it would change every month! I
can’t name them all, but I will quickly name one.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif"">The one that stands out the most for me would be
when I would imagine me being a certain singer’s little sister. So I was two<br />
years old and was German. It was back when I was addicted to Tokio Hotel, And I<br />
would imagine myself being Tom and Bill’s (twins, Tom being the main guitarist<br />
and Bill being the singer) little sister, Tatiana.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif"">Now, I still have plenty of imaginary worlds. My
favorite one has to be the one where I am one of my favorite Kpop singer’s<br />
little sister (Sujin, Korean, age 14)</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif"">I also like the one where I am a Korean mother
of a two year old and I have a boyfriend and all …</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif"">From time to time, I would imagine random (and I
mean random) stuff, like me having some sort of supernatural power, etc …</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif"">Okay, now that I am writing this down, I feel so
weird and stupid. But I love those imaginary worlds because they are my source<br />
of comfort, since my life is not great at all. They are the lives that I want to<br />
have but sometimes, imaging them makes me sad because I know I won’t have a<br />
life like those.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif"">Daydreaming is now affecting my life little by
little. I daydream so much, it became an addiction and most of what happens to<br />
me in real life has to happen to me in my imaginary worlds.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif"">I daydream so much that I can’t concentrate in school
anymore. Not that I really care, but my grades are dropping. My imaginary world<br />
is taking so much place in my life that I even created MSN accounts and I am<br />
basically lying to people. I try to delete them but end up creating new accounts<br />
all the time.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif"">I really want to, first of all, be concentrated
in school because teachers hate it (to be honest, I think I am doing well for<br />
someone that is not concentrating, but I know I can do better and I want to do<br />
better …). And I also want to stop lying to people on MSN … I don’t want to get<br />
rid of my imaginary worlds though because they are real source of comfort but I<br />
think it is affecting my social life.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif""> </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif"">So, can I get help for this? And the most
important, is it really maladaptive daydreaming?</span></p>
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