How do non-daydreamers fill their empty time?

[jenny lee sawyer]

This question may sound naive, but I'm being totally honest. For six years now, I've been daydreaming deeply about one particular set of characters, and that daydream is what I go back to all the time when I'm idle: riding the train, walking to work, waiting on line, trying to fall asleep, showering. I always turn to it when I'm bored, as a way to entertain myself. Does anyone know what non-daydreamers do to fill these idle/bored moments?

I ask because while my daydreaming isn't impacting my life so drastically that it's preventing me from, say, seeing friends, I do wonder what my brain would be doing with all that leftover time if I wasn't spending it daydreaming. What am I missing by filling all those moments with fantasy?

[The1andonlyAbber]

I think non-daydreamers are just bored during those moments.

[J Ansley]

I have experienced maladaptive daydreaming at different intensities over the course of my life. No matter what, though, I always space out and find myself thinking about something.  Before my relapse I would think about all my friends and our relationships, about politics and world events, literature, boring stuff like my grocery list and my workout routine, all the languages I wanted to learn, movies, etc. I tend to hyperfocus, so even if I was daydreaming about something else besides my fantasy world I still got lost in my own thoughts even if it was something really banal, like future grocery lists. I love to write lists. Nowadays I seem to have relapsed and think about my world more than any of those things. I definitely have noticed myself become disconnected from other people and I like I am losing so many things and talents that once enriched my life. I'm forcing myself to do things I used to care about---pay attention to current events, read--even when I'd rather daydream. It's really hard, I feel like I was a much more interesting person when I was more well-rounded. I miss that person :/ But yeah, I think everyone daydreams a little bit but personally I'm always hyperfocused on something whether it's daydreaming or more immediate things.