Certain movements for certain DDs?

[Truthful Alibi]

Is there anyone else who has certain repetitive movements for when they DD? Like I pace for the majority of my DDing, but I have more emotional daydreams in bed. Also, in my bedroom, I have 2 horse toy things that are big enough to sit on - in the dark I will sit on them and rock side to side and DD about things like flying. I also sort of have a sneeze fetish (I got all the mental disorder things in my family :P) so I will DD about sneezing while doing this. I can do < while in bed, but I have to cross my legs and squeeze with them around my... area. I sometimes do this when I feel awkward (which is why I'm doing it now XD). If I do the rocking thing when I'm DDing, if it's about racing or something, I often find I feel like I have actually been running - I'll feel exhausted, especially my legs, and I'll be sweating. I remember when I was younger I said to another kid "I can make myself sweat just from sitting down!" LOL!

Strangely, even before my MD started to develop properly, I would sit on this dog toy I had and 'wiggle' from side to side while DDing, although I hadn't been bullied or anything then and my DDing hadn't reached its mladaptive stage at that point - maybe I was doomed from the start XD

Anyone else like this?

[Nicola]

I don't rock or pace. Iv read quite a few people who pace to daydream, but I tend to listen to music. Even if it isn't music I'm daydreaming about, I have to have music playing. And I can't have it aloud for all to hear, it has to be my iPod so only I can hear it.
I mostly daydream in bed and for some reason I always end up lying on my back. If I turn on to my side, then after iv come out of a daydream I notice I'm on my back again lol.
I think us MDs are very unique and strange people but also very gifted and talented too. Not everyone can use their imagination as vividly as we do and think like we do. Personally I think MD is both a curse and a gift :-)

Nicola xx

[Tina]

I use music the most to daydream, but honestly sometimes I will just begin daydream when I'm simply walking around or running, but then again when I'm running I usually have my ipod with me.  I spend hours sitting rocking to my music with my headphones on with no one else around.   Then when I'm in my bed it's weird if I daydream about myself I can't stay still I need to keep turning from side to side or stand up or something, but if I daydream about others I can lay still in my bed.  It's odd I know, but it is what it is.   Pretty much when I daydream I need to be in motion because otherwise I become restless.

[Stefanie (Stoof)]

I use music AND I move....a lot. I literally jump up and down on a couch cushion i put on the floor, or a stack of pillows. It started off as bouncing on the edge of a bed with headphones in, then on an exercise balls (I've popped millions of them)...then for awhile all i was sleeping on was a mattress on the floor without a bed frame so i started to just jump straight up and down on that. (I've tried trampolines, but I need stronger gravity. the time between i jump off and land is too long. perhaps one of those individual ones will work) Sometimes i'll shake my hand to the music. Ah, this is so embarrassing right now, because it really does take a lot of time out of my life, and its extremely hard to hide...who wouldn't notice someone jumping up and down to blaring music? (Yes, when i wouldn't have headphones, i'd just blare it. the louder the music, the more vivid the day dream...for it drowns out the external world)

Now, i don't HAVE to be jumping to music, but it is the most effective and efficient way i can day dream and also the most preferable. Sometimes I can pace quickly or skip around without any music, but I can't stay in the dream of long.

The only upside I see to it is that I'm getting exercise. My heart races and i get out of breath, i sweat, but its keeping me healthy....or is it? It gets incredibly hard to sit or stand still, i'll have a thought, and inspiration, or something triggers a dream, and i'll want to get up. My friends, when i had them, would wonder why i would go to the bathroom all of the time at their houses. I didn't have a bladder infection, i just needed to MOVE. that small trip to the bathroom gave me 45 seconds of a day dream. and yes, i can notice 45 seconds of a day dream.

In any case, I hope I'm not too severe to the point I'm scaring anyone.