I am a maladaptive daydreamer.  My first memory of an all-consuming day dream session was when I was 12 years old. I remember I locked myself in my room for an entire Saturday. I told my parents I was reading or doing homework. But I was actually just sitting there, in an alternate reality.  I remember getting hungry and sweating from how warm my room was, but I just sat there, unable to pull myself out of my alternate reality. I still remember what the daydream was about, but it's far too…

I'm staying in front of my pc right now and I'm enjoying old cartoons.

Being a 90s kid, I only watch real cartoons, if you know what I mean. Actually I think that this whole " brain refresh " thing wouldn't work with today's cartoons ( you have to be handicapped to like them, but that's another story ). 

Cartoons will take you back to your childhood, but it's actually more than that: they will transport you to a universe in which everything can be simple, the world has…

Thursday the fifteenth was my first day of high school and 9th grade and I was a Freshman! All summer I was so excited about high school and hardly nervous at all...until the night before. The night before the first day, I was very, very nervous and had trouble sleeping. Eventually though, I got to sleep and woke up and got ready for my first day. 

The bus was beyond crowded. Lots of Freshman had to sit three to a seat, including me. It wasn't too pleasant. The unlucky people…

Ok, so for those who don't know I have SERIOUS social problems.  I pretty much can't get along with anyone, in person or on-line.  It's a huge part of the reason I'm on Disability.  I couldn't get along with anyone in an office environment or even online working from home.  Plus, I have a million sensitivities to sounds, light, profanity, touch, taste, etc which make it very hard to enjoy hanging out with people.  I took a big step today.  I joined a Highly Sensitive Person group on…

1. Time goes by very fast.

My virtual Sim named Tony was an adult when I started to play the game and now he will become old in just 5 virtual days. Well, he had a successful career, many lovers and a great son, so Tony lived his life quite well.

Anyway, this life is very short. I mean the real life. Every virtual reality is just a reflection of our real reality.

Take a few minutes and remember the times when you were a kid, playing…

My goal on daydreaming is to let go of daydreaming. Letting go of daydreaming is when you stop daydreaming and you stop thinking about daydreaming.I am ready to stop daydreaming ,however that left me with having to make friends and being social. And I am terrified of speaking to anyone ,and everyone.I have to worst social skills. I have to think about my words before i say them over and over in my head. I do not know if this helps or not. I am left with only one option : make friends. I know…

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Some people here are familiar with the story "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" originally written by James Thurber in 1939. It's about a guy who works for a publishing company and lives in elaborate fantasy worlds but eventually goes through a real life adventure. 

I strongly suspect that the author understood MD very well. Anyway it was made into a movie in 1947, but the modern remake with Ben Stiller as the main character Walter Mitty is due to come out…

The following is an email from Eli Somer, explaining the time table as to when we'll see some study results.  

"Dear Cordellia,

Thanks for your informative note. I admire your courage and your dedication to promoting awareness to MD.

As for the study's time table. I anticipate that data collection will end in a month. We will than begin a series of data analyses the first of which will be completed in the fall. The write up of the first in a series of a few scientific…

Hey everyone this is my first post in here,i find all your stories interesting and familiar..

i had to habit of going to my own universe since about 6 and it never bothered me to much,i actually enjoy it and think its a awesome ability..i DD for about 30min a day in average but sometimes it can be up to 2hours.i dont feel addicted to it although i sometimes have a strong urge to do it like after watching a cool show etc..

so my question is those of you who stopped or lessen…

 I feel really low about MD right now I read in a stanislavski book ( he is the for- father of modern acting) and it says an actor must keep good mental health and resolve depression when it first acours, after 3 years of un diagnosed severe depressive syptoms i final feel that i am almost better, but does this mean to recover the years spend in an acting slump due to depression i have to also resolve MD to be able to have "good mental health"  i have have forms of md ever since i…

My DD has never been as bad as it has been the last 3 weeks . I did so good for about almost 2 years with just trying to keep myself busy and staying away from music as much as possible because music is and has always been my trigger. I would lie if I said I stopped all together .. nope I had my moments but nothing to dramatic. I don't know what happend but I'm so into it at the moment I do nothing else but go to work come home clean cook wait till everybody is in bed and sit in the living…

I feel like i know whats its like for an alcoholic to admit to their addiction,  both to themselves and others.  And this feels like stepping into an AA meeting for the first time and introducing myself to others in my situation.  

Hi i'm Lisa an I am an excessive daydreamer. 

Perhaps thats just my overactive mind going again, I realise that I just acted out that scene in my head.

So I have been daydreaming in different forms for as long as I can remember and nearing 30…

Wild Minds Network is like other social networking sites.  After creating an account complete with username and password, you automatically receive an Inbox, Alerts ... and it asks you to add a profile photo.   I don't know about anyone else on here, but simply creating that Wild Minds Network account (proving that I was a "real person" with an email address) took all ..  and I mean ALL ... of the courage I had.  

Adding a personal photo?  Absolutely NOT.  Somebody might be able to…

hi everyone! I've been debating making a profile here for a while now. I'll start with a little bit about myself-- my name is Paige, I'm eighteen years old and headed off to college in just over a week. my major is animation, I was accepted into a very nice art school in California with a hefty scholarship, and I'm super excited. the down side is that it's also my catalyst for joining this community. I promised myself I'd be very, very honest here, so here comes an embarrassing summary of my…

I am not sure if I will be able to get rid of MD completely but I hope to try to manage it.  One thing, I have been doing is DDing while exercising.  I DD with music while I am exercising on the elliptical. I end up staying on the elliptical longer as I don't want to stop DD. lol   This way I have been getting my DD fix but I am also getting healthy.