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I often daydream about being the World's greatest, most creative, most respected, most haunting, super-legendary, aspiring, inimitable, audience manipulating, perfect, god-like, tyrannical, unforgettable, mentally insane, Oscar-winning, award-winning, auteur, and gut-wrenching Japanese-American computer animation masterpiece-maker , cinephile, movie buff, film critic, author, digital artist, comic book artist, stop motion masterpiece-maker, anime masterpiece-maker, video game…

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Hi, so i want to study for my exams and i have failed in my previous exams but then i have these uncontrollable daydreams (been a topper in my class before ) ,I think I also have ADHD, I am dysfunctional in my life.
My mom is a narcissist and my dad is a passive parent that is both neglect me so i cant seek out for help to them. I will turn 17 soon and am stuck in online school ,What do I do?

After several failed attempts to stop my MD, I've come to terms with the fact that I may never be able to get rid of it. In the world today, there is just too much stimulus for me to make a solid attempt at stopping. Especially now that I'm going into a career field wherein I have to sit on a computer most of the day.

I decided to approach it from a different perspective, why don't I try to condition my compulsion into something positive. So, instead of walking around rubbing my hands…

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I am aware how people describe maladaptive daydreaming as an addiction ,I mysyelf have had this form but currently i experience it as an uncontrollable lapse in concentration
,I no longer feel pleasure from it.
Anyone else like me?

Hello, my name is Aline and I'm new here. I live in Brazil, more specifically in São Paulo, but I am translating this comment because I realized that most people here are not Brazilian (but if you have any reading, I would love to meet you).

So, until a month ago I never imagined that what I have, of imagining another reality would be a problem. In my head when I thought about it I thought that everyone had it and just didn't speak, it never bothered me because it always knew how to… Continue

i daydream since i was a kid and I don’t actually remember when it all started and I want to ask people who overcome maladaptive daydreaming how did you do this? and can you say that you overcome this in 100%? Like is it even possible to live a normal live and stop daydreaming all the time? Beacause I feel like it influence my everyday life, I can’t focus on school, my exams, my work and i wonder if I ever will have a normal life without wasting my time on daydreaming and will it help if I go… Continue

Hi everyone,

I was diagnosed with social anxiety several years ago. It’s a condition I’ve had since before I started school. As a result, I’ve found it difficult to make friends and have meaningful relationships and experience life fully in general.

I had two best friends when I was in elementary school. We were inseparable. However, in fourth grade we kind of somehow went our separate ways. They started hanging out with other people while I was left alone.

I think…

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Well, I’m going to identify myself as a G, because I don’t really like my name and it’s big. And sorry for the English, I’m from Brazil and have some difficulties in this language. I just wanted to ... well, say hello. I discovered this forum this week and MD a few weeks ago. Before I thought I was crazy, a freak, something unsolved. I’ve done a lot of research into any similar condition in psychology, but I don’t think I’ve expressed myself well. I do this because I understand myself…

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For all my daydreamers, I beg you, do something creative.

By doing I mean dedicate your life, or half while you make a living in some job, to make something with your hands or body. You spend so much time in your mind, in a land filled with adventure and conflict, all the emotions you feel trapped in a character that is you-enough to feel. This, right there, is perfect warm fertile ground for art to be born.

What is art but the caption of human emotions and beauty. The beauty…

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Just an introduction really 

I have been addicted to fantasy and daydreaming since around the age of 6. 

I never realised so many people have similar kinds of experiences. I am prone to pacing around, muttering to myself, gesturing with my arms, lost in fantasy and reverie, with often very detailed and elaborate fantasies about situations or people playing out in my head. 

I think it all started seemingly harmlessly enough - I would imitate scenes from films and…

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Hello People,

i will tell you about the content of my daydreams, because I believe it would help me to do so. I also have been writing them down and it is extremely embarassing to me. I would apprechiate any comments on what I need to improve in my life to reduce my daydreaming.

To preface this daydream, it is especially dumb and racist if you hate me for it you are right to do so.

I am sitting at a table in a restaurant with a band (i am a musician irl…

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Has anyone read or watched this movie: Im thinking about ending things?

Ive watched the movie and I was wondering if the movie was talking about MDD so Ive read the book and YES it was!

So, if you havent watched, watch it or read it now! And then come back so we discuss it!

Hi, since as young as I can remember I've always been able to fully immerse myself in different worlds of my own with little to no effort at all.



Within the blink of an eye I can make up whole stories from the top of my head with plots and characters and places, the whole nine yards. I've always been able to do that, I don't remember ever having to struggle to imagine anything.



I'm Autistic and as a kid growing up in a world I didn't understand I enjoyed creating worlds in… Continue

Hi all, 

I want to tell you about my experience with MD, because I don't recognize myself in most accounts of it, and I want to see if someone else can relate with my own account.

First difference between my experience and the descriptions I find online: the content of my daydreams is NOT positive. It's always negative. I call them "daymares": plots usually involve a loved person dying, or me or someone else being sick, and other catastrophes of some type. It's…

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I daydream since i was 7, i really dont know why i started doing since i dont remember any traumatic event happening in my childhood, the real problem is that when i daydream i usally walk or run violently in circles non stop while listening to music loudly on my head phones, now im 21 and my legs and knees are really damaged from it, i can tell how i had hearing loss yet my family does not think i need to go to theraphy, im a student so i dont have any income to go by myself. i need help and… Continue