I am blown away to find this community and other sites on MD.  I never thought that anyone else would share this most secret of things.

A little about me. I am in my early 40's.  I first started daydreaming as a small child - I remember being at nursery and being as happy to play by myself in my own little world as I was to play with other children in shared imaginative worlds. I don't think that was particularly maladaptive - I am an introvert so it was probably normal and…

Hi, everyone.

Spammers have been a problem on a lot of ning networks for a long time, and unfortunately this one is no exception.  Often they will come on and then mass message people saying something to the effect of "Hi, My name is ______, and I would like to become friends with you.  Please email me right away at ___________."  They used to post those messages in comments, so I would see them and suspend them quickly.  Now, however, they've become more stealth.  A member…

[This is really nothing about MD.  Just me being me.]  For about a month now, I've been doing Bible study with some people I met on campus.  They invited me to their church, and I really liked it, so I started going there, too.  At first it was wonderful; everyone has been really nice and welcoming.  Now I've really come to resent the whole thing, though.  It's not because of anything anyone did or said.  But I can't stand small-group activities where everyone will notice whether I show up…

He started talking about his zodiac sign and how the MSN site had a discription of sagitarius and it fit him so well. Then he says it has the worse possible mate for him was a scorpio, which I am. What a thing to say. Is he trying to tell me something?

i am 16 years old and i think i have been DDing since i was 12, when i was 12 i got bullied at school and i never really fitted in at school,and DDing made me feel safe and like i belonged. my DDing got really bad 2 years ago and my grades started dropping, my parents just think its because im just lazy. DDing feels like an adiction, i can never wait to listen to my music or to get in bed and just lie there for ages DDing, this does cause me lack of sleep i usealy have to snap myself out of…

Not sure if this actually intertwines with MD or not, but would like some opinions/thoughts on it.

I have little to no desire to actually be around real people. To go out, socialize, impress, nothing. I also have no desire for any kind of emotional or physical companionship. 

I have to remind myself constantly, to the point of writing it down sometimes, that I have to keep people in mind for certain things, else I will forget about them. People are like an obligation to me.…

So we had the first major snowfall in my city today! It was a record for the longest gone without snow and true to form, people have managed to forget how to drive in winter conditions. This always surprises me. We are definitely a winter city and yet snow and ice always manage to baffle drivers. I understand that in some cases, you just lose control, but when people are still pushing the speed limit and making idiot moves on black ice, com'n.. that's just dumb.

I had to take my…

I'm wondering if anyone else has anything similar.  I've realized that there's a peculiar tendency when I DD for me to take some trait that I would consider unfavorable in real life and give it to a character I like.  It's almost like I'm trying to force myself to like that trait?  Or else I just find flaws really attractive. 

For instance, education and being educated is something that is very important to me.  And yet I tend to make up characters who are semi-illiterate…

It seems i have been searching for the name of this disorder for years. Since i was 6 i have had trouble letting go of daydreams and whatnot. Now, as a teenager, i find myself spending more than half my day doing it. I hate it and i need to stop because its getting in my way of normal things, like doing the dishes and homework. I need some kind of teqnique to help me, any ideas? i am super new to all of this so any and all advice is welcome

if an author writes a story with a main character that is an obvious idealized version of themselves-- gorgeous, talented, smart, practically perfect, everyone is in love with her-- people say that the character is a "mary sue". almost all of the time, a story with a mary sue as a main character will get bad reviews, just because the character is a mary sue.

as i have said before in a different blog post, i have had two different daydream stories. one that i stopped…

For my Practical Grammar class we had to write 5-page papers, so naturally I wrote a 9-page story instead.  Whenever I write down things from my daydream world, the stories always feel really dull to me.  However, prof gave me really good feedback, and I got 100%, so it must not have been all bad.  It still feels dull to me.  Oh well.  

Here's where I posted it if anyone's interested:…

Thank you so much for everyone who wished me luck for my pitch!

It was sooo scary, i had to do it infront of a panel of four people, television people, and film people. Disney, ardamann, A woman who has been working with Tim Burton on his latest film, and my gosh was i scared.

The people gave out great views on my idea, and gave me good advice, so i couldn't tell whether they liked my idea or not.

Whatever the outcome was....i wasn't too bothered to be honest…

 part of my DD about this boy who i know i DD about and in my DD he likes me but i dont like him but he trys to do things to impress me and buys me things. in my DD i told him that i dont like him that way.

 so today i find out that the boy who was part of my DDing about acctually likes me, i NEVER would of guessed he liked me, i know he likes me because my friend asked him and i over heard the convo they was having and then she told me what he said, he does'nt know i dont like him…

This might be kind of an odd post, sorry. I might sound kind of weird and I'm not sure if it's going to make any sense, so sorry... :S

It's apparently pretty common to pace and rock etc while daydreaming and I know alot of people say they find themself talking outloud. Sometimes I almost act it out, in facial expressions, head tilts, talking at invisible people all around- everything .  Not sure if derealization is the right word per…

Yesterday, I printed out Cynthia's study, stapled the packet, and presented it to my mom. She didn't come to talk to me about it until 5am when she noticed that I was still awake in my room. The first thing she asked me was what I thought about it. I told her the truth...that the article spoke very true to me. I had highlighted all the sections that revealed my symptoms (pretty much everything except for pacing).

To my surprise and happiness, my mom responded very…

According to Cynthia's new study, only 8% of participants reported researching aspects of their daydreams. I was honestly quite surprised...maybe because I always research mine. Science articles, community forums, dictionaries, documentaries, Wikipedia...you name it. I want my DDs to be somewhat accurate if I'm going to use mental and physical illnesses, real places and events, and professional occupations for my characters. I'm always wondering, "Can this really happen?" and look it…

So this is pretty unrelated to daydreaming, just some ramblings. Winter is a'comin now soon. It's November and snow hasn't hit my city yet, which is quite unusual. I'm used to blistering cold and knee deep snow by mid-October, lasting till the beginning of May. It's odd that it hasn't begun to snow yet, and in a weird way I sort of miss it. I love winter! For.. 3 or so months. But after seven months of -35C degrees with a -45C degree windchill, (that's not an exaggeration, oh and it's -31,…

I've been meaning to get on here for a few days. ^^; This past week has been frustrating. Caught a cold and finally managed to have an appointment with the campus psychiatrist, to get her opinion on some health issues I;m having at the moment. She just basically stated that I need to see a neurologist. *sighs* I'm having bloodwork done on Monday, so I'm curious to see what those results will say.

On another note, meetings with counselor have been going well. We've discussed…

I'm thinking of setting this up as a separate blog just about MD.  I feel . . . so happy to know that there are other people out there who have this condition, since prior to this I've always felt alone.  I've been daydreaming since I was 5 or 6.  Granted, all kids do daydream, but I think I knew right off the bat that there was something strange about mine.  They were definitely different in some inexplicable way from a "normal" daydream you might expect a kid that age to have.  (Although I…

Well, he now knows. I brought it up (it was really hard!) and managed to describe it in general terms, without really giving any details. Maybe I will later, but I'm still really self-conscious about it. Hell, it rattles me that I'm even posting about it on this website.

I'm aware that that kind of makes his job harder- he's my therapist after all, it's his job to analyse this stuff- but I'm kind of taking it in baby steps. 

After my four day "cold turkey", it's been a little…