How far do you go with your daydreams?

[Amanda]

Hey I'm new here and I can't express the relief I felt when I came across this site. I always thought something was wrong with me or I had a mental disorder. I do suffer from depression and anxiety and have almost my whole life. I was never one to make friends easily and currently don't have any real friends outside of my family. I am 25  and have been daydreaming since early childhood. Me and my sister would make up worlds together with elaborate stories. We were always considered to have an overactive imagination. The first time I realized I had a problem was about 5th grade. I had this teacher who I would create stories around even one were she was my mother. Its been on and off ever since then. I noticed I really didn't have this during my high school years. I was always around friends and very busy. It seems like in the past 6 years or so its gotten really bad. I came across this one girl back in the myspace days and she was everything I have always wanted to be. So I created this fantasy life for her and she was always a few years younger than me. Her and friends who I have created over the years are the subject of most of my daydreams. My question really is how in depth do you go for your character? I kept a journal as my character writing about what was going on everyday of her life. I had a whole life for her. I still had daydreams for the good part of the day about her and her friends but I also wrote about her and kept that journal. I found over the years it helped keep my day dreams to a minimum because I could live out her life through a day to day journal. Ive been reading posts here and haven't come across anyone who has mentioned this yet. Just curious if most people keep it inside or if they write it down?

[The1andonlyAbber]

I write some things down if a character writes them down. When I was younger I actually used to make homework for my characters--I was really bored, LOL. Sometimes if a character draws a picture, then I'll draw a "real world copy" of it. I can't write down my daydream stories or information about my daydream world, though--there's just too much information (my world is so complex) and I don't know where to start.