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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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 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…

If you could speak with Dr. Somer and his research partner Dr. Soffer-Dudek, what would you ask?

Professor Eli Somer is the first who has studied maladaptive daydreaming. He had created the name "maladaptive daydreaming" itself.



I'm organizing a video interview with both of them, and they are available to answer your questions. Dr. Soffer-Dudek is an expert on MD related to and OCD, ADHD, dissociation, sleep, and night dreaming. 

Please feel free to write your…

I ask my mind a question. I have discovered that simple questions help me greatly with controlling my focus and attention. 

When daydreaming, my brain is full of questions and subsequently, my brain is busy searching other parts of my mind for the answer. This activity can be immersive and renders me unavailable to people near me. This drives my wife crazy.

So when I…

Hi,

I'm a new member. I have always been a daydreamer. Now I think about it it has most definitely had a negative impact on my education, career and relationships in so MANY ways.

I'm 29, live in Essex, England. 

Its 11am on a Tuesday morning and I have already envisaged myself as UK prime minister (I reopened some coal mines, opened a government-owned elite energy windmill manufacturing service and introduced a new way of taxation where an…

I am one of those people who has been [enjoying] my maladaptive daydreams since I was old enough to have conscious thought. This means since I was maybe as young as three years old. At that young age, having “thoughts” was not so scary. In fact, not much is when you’re a toddler. Soiling diapers, crying in your mother’s arms – these are all things that a little child doesn’t self-criticize.

However, as I got older, I started to feel a bit of shame for my daydreams. Even as a child, I…

Hello everyone!

A few technical things. What do you think the tagline should be? I was considering putting the old one (Where wild minds come to rest) in the homepage and to use that subtitle to write something more specific about what this place is. 

Groups: many of them are abandoned, or maybe they are alive but the administrator is not active any more.

Let me know if one of your groups has this problem and you want to take over, I can put someone else as…

Hello everyone! This account is still barren, as it's brand new, but I myself am not new to Wild Minds. Some time ago back when this site was active in the past I had an account here, but abandoned it after the site became overran by spam bots and activity died. A lot has changed since I made that account, there were many things about it I don't align with anymore, so I deleted it and made a new one to help facilitate a fresh start.



I've had MD for as long as I can remember, and…

I didn’t knew about md. I always thought I m alone with this. Feels really good to know that I’m not the only one with a endless fantasy world. When did you guys found out that you are not alone?