When I was younger, I thought everyone was like me. Unless you're a millionaire or working 2 jobs/always busy, I figured most people would just daydream. I grew up realizing it might just be me. But now I'm just confused. I have nothing to do very often, so for people who don't daydream, what do they think about in all their free time? For me, being 'bored' means retreating in a daydream for however long it satisfies me until I get something like a text or a call breaking me out of my imagination. I know there's a solution to this. This isn't like schizophrenia where we'll likely suffer for the rest of our lives - I believe it's a long-term, strongly developed habit that can be broken. But I think one important step is to learn about what people without MD think about in their day-to-day lives, but I'm too afraid to ask people I know...

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I am a MDer, no doubt there, but I have broken out of it for extended periods.  I find my mind is a lot lighter, things are less intense.  I guess I plan ahead, think about other people, worry, decide what needs to be done etc.  You just sort of live your life, nothing special.  When I am DD'ing, most of that just vanishes, stuff doesn't get planned or accomplished and so on. 

^ Like I can understand a bit of it, even I have to come out of my DD like alta said to plan things like when I'm gonna do an assignment or what not, but what about all the other moments? Like today I was with my friend and I was just wondering what she thinks about on days where she stays home or doesn't do anything really. Even walking and bussing to meet me, was the only think she was thinking about planning/past and future/worry/etc? If that really is the case (and I can't wrap my head around that!) then I'm starting to see the one (and only?) benefit to MD :/

When I was at an ED clinic, they put me in a "Mindfulness" group therapy. It's basically all about living in the moment, so I switched to Art therapy because I was uncooperative lol. But I know from being there that people still have very busy minds, they're just concerned with their own lives and not their daydreams. They're reliving the past or thinking about the future, about what they're cooking for dinner that night or what they have to do when they get home. About the place they're in and the people around them. Honestly, I think we all constantly daydream in a sense , just because it's, let's say, productive, based in reality, and not excessive, there isn't a problem with it. I started living in my mind because living in reality was too boring. But some people, instead of retreating to a fantasy world, they do something interesting with their lives so they probably have a lot more to think about.

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