When I'm not reading and trying to find answers for this problem, I usually am playing in my thoughts and it leads me to daydreaming. They usually start off very exciting. It's like turning on the tv to an action movie that is already in progress. I just step in the scenario and off we go...

In real life I'm a female, 24, African American. I'm pretty short and petite. The vast majority of my daydreams are in a male perspective and often at an age much younger than I am. Sometimes,…

So, I said I would share parts of The Power Of Now with this community. It's really helping me understand the power of Being and how to guide my own thoughts or be completely free of thinking all together. The reason I feel this is so important is because MD is totally an issue of the mind. For me,  it's a non stop desire to place myself elsewhere, in other peoples shoes, in a more ideal world, in whatever my mind will create. Before going on a mental trip, I have to accept what my mind is…

Hey, everyone,

         So, I’m gonna go on a monologue here. Read if you want!

         I feel like I’m at a critical point in my life. It’s so weird that I have these problems that almost no one could understand or accept. Other people worry about friends and school, or about their family or medical problems, real problems. I have to worry about my own mind.

         I have made so much progress since I started trying to stop my daydreaming in October. I used to…

I'm sure this the typical response you see on this website, the sweet relief that comes from knowing you are not alone. It's the truth. I just assumed I was really @#$&*^$ weird. Or crazy, whichever explanation suited my fancy that day. When I was young girl, I would create mythical  kingdoms in my mind and play with  toothbrushes and combs. It was all so real and I enjoyed it immensely.

When I was in 1st grade I created my first "character" or whatever you want to call it. It was…

While on amazon looking through the inspirational books category I stumbled upon a book by Eckhart Tolle called "The Power Of Now". I am telling you all, it's a game changer. I would like to start sharing excerpts from it with you guys. I don't think the author was ever an MD'er, but he experienced a very deep depression which he recovered from at 29 years old. He did it by separating himself from his mind. I know, it…

First of all this is not my poem -this is a poem that was written by a young indian girl  who used to be a meth addict (she died with a needle in her arm).  Yes this poem is about meth but it can has some of the same elements as another addiction known as Maladaptive Daydreaming and the way it empties the lives of its hosts .

My Name: "Is Meth"



I destroy homes, I tear families apart, take your children, and that's just the start.



I'm…

Does anyone here have pets? If you do, do you think you daydream as much when your pet is around (assuming it's a dog or cat) or less?

If you don't have a pet like a dog or a cat, do you want one? If you do, do you think you'd daydream less if you had a dog or a cat or something to play with and take care of?

I ask because ever since I was 6 years old I've asked my parents for a dog and i'm 17 yrs old and I still haven't gotten 1. Not even a cat. My mom doesn't like…

Last year i didn't know the term MD and the information around it but i knew i had intrinsic motivation problems, ADD problems, and daydreaming problems since i was 4 years old.  So i paid Amen Clinics to have 2 full SPECT scans of my brain to help determine what's wrong with me.  The Amen doctor and psychiatrist  asked if i had depression or suicidal thoughts in the past.  I lied and said no.   I've had a few of those thoughts but not many.  Nor did i tell them of my MD because i didn't…

Hello! 

My name is Rachel S. I am 20 year old woman who recently decided to try and figure out what was going on inside her head.

As far back as I can remember I have had a very vivid imagination but I never thought anything about it until recently. Obviously I have known that there is something different about me, but I didn't want to believe that there could be a problem with my brain. My daydreaming is something that brings me happiness.

Music is my trigger. I…

Just wanted to let you guys know that cutting out music has helped reduce my daydreaming a lot. Well like 30%, which consisted of  my main continous daydream.  Up until yesterday i had went about 13 days without listening to my mp3player.

I realized listening to music on a stero is better for me than listening to it in earbuds/earphones. When i listen to it in earphones it's like going directly to my brain LOL. Anyhoo during that week if music was playing in the car or anywhere else…

You might want to read my other one first.

Sorry if this is super long. I don't know if I've explained myself very well, but please let me know if I sound like someone dealing with MD or not, I'm still trying to find out if that describes my experiences well.

This is going way back, like starting from 3-4 years old, so its not gonna be necessarily…

Hello everyone :D

I'd like to tell you about myself, but its hard to know where to start, and maybe I'll get into too much detail... I'll just start. Also, please look for any "clues" or "hints" that make me sound like a Maladaptive Daydreamer to you, I'm not sure if I show consider myself one yet or not.

Ever since I can remember, I've always felt different from everyone I knew, especially most other kids my age. I'm not just a kid anymore, I'll be turning 23…

 As a MDer I have a few techniques - I would like to share with those who are in uni.

 - never study in your room

- group study if you get along with a few folks in your class

- exercise ,it clears your mind

- talk MD breaks after you have finished your study quota

-sleep on campus or in the library - try to avoid going to your room (then all bets are off)

-stay away from alarmists -they feed off fear

-believe that you  are going to…

For as long as I can remember I've lived in my head , making story's up mostly that revolve around tv shows,movies, and books but I will take there story line and go another way with it. It was never a problem to me I just never told anyone , I will normally put head phones in and blare music while I rock my body back and forth or go for long walks while I listen to music. But as I got older and married and had children, I took a break from it for about a year still doing it but no…

So, my MD has recently gotten worse. I'm almost constantly daydreaming, even if there are other people around me. It's like I can't stop. I live in a dorm now, and I always feel relieved when my roommates leave just so I can daydream. When I'm alone, no matter where I am, I always will imagine people or a person around me and talk to them, carrying out whole conversations and imagining what they'll say back to me as if they're actually there. I feel crazy, because sometimes the conversations…

The last time i was on here i was in a very bad place, I believed that things would never change, that i was crazy and i would never be able to feel anything, all i wanted was to fall asleep and dream and never wake up. It has been a few months now and a lot has changed, I wanted to give a brief update on my progress as i think it will be helpful to you all. 

I started councelling, from my first session i became suddenly aware of my issues, as the weeks passed i came…