Makes you wonder, doesn't it? 

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It absolutely does. I write fiction so I am very interested in knowing.

I don't think we will ever truly know, even if MD becomes a 'normal' accepted psych condition.  Think about it.  How many folks like perhaps Stephen King or George R. R. Martin would ever publicly admit that, yeah, they detail daydream and talk to their characters like they can hear them as so many of us do?  So?  What of it?  LOL!!  Maybe.... just maybe.... only the talented and brave ones actually publish the stuff of their daydreams?  

I dunno, but I kinda enjoy my daydream fiction, and don't see it as 'detrimental' to my life.  Its helped me work through more than a few weaknesses and strengths, and shown me where I'm lying to myself and where I'm being completely real.  Like life, its essentially a balancing act that we all face, even those without MD.  Let's all face the fact that most of life is so mundane it can almost be accomplished while completely unconscious, so why not imagine yourself somewhere more exciting while doing the exact same dishes night after night after night after night?  Dishes have to be cleaned, right?  Which leads to the question, exactly how many of us MD-ers are actual thrill junkies?  Even that gets old after a while I'm told by a former thrill seeker.  There's just so many times you can bungee jump off tall bridges and still feel the thrill of potentially falling to your death.   Ho-hum.  And then there's always that ever-present post-jump reality waiting for you, where you go home to face wiping your toddler's butt for the fifth time because your wife is whining she just can't do it one more time today or she'll scream.   (I'll bet you dollars to donuts she's MD'ing about.... sleep.)

There are times when I feel I have write down my daydreams. I don't know if it's because I feel they're really good stories or if I want to remember them, but I think writing them helps me understand them. Writing my characters makes them more complex and I start to see parts of myself in them.

One of my daydreams covers about 1100 computer pages.  I wrote most of it in 1 1/2 months time.  It's pretty detailed.  I consider it my 'epic' daydream.  All others pale in comparison to detail and complexity so far.  Most of my others are from 1 to 300 pages.  

I have another question that may be insightful.  How many people write down one of their daydreams, then destroy it when its no longer needful?  I've done that with a few.  

I came across a youtube video that suggests MD'ers are really connected to psychology/astrology (Neptune/12th house in particular), and write certain ways during certain times of the year, and even write certain ways during certain times of the day.  There's something to it, because I tend to write down my daydreams like that.  They usually begin mid-winter, then gradually fade by early to late summer.  I've never written an 1100 page fantasy before, however.  This one is also ongoing even though its now Autumn.  Course, my life has gone through many major sudden changes this year, from outside circumstances as well as deliberate choices of my own.  I'm curiously not fearful of these changes at all, so why this continuation daydream is a bit odd.  Maybe I don't want to let it go, just to see where it takes me?  lol!  Or, maybe I just like these characters for themselves.  

Bronwyn, I suspect everyone who writes down their daydreams infuse their characters with parts of their own psyche.  Most likely those who don't write them do the same.  Similar to fiction writers, their stories are essentially a part of them.  You can't effectively write what you don't know.

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