Maladaptive Daydreaming: where wild minds come to rest
I just wanted to say that since I found this website (actually thanks to Yahoo. Yahoo actually posted something worth it.), I've felt better about myself.
I never knew of anyone who had this condition and I didn't even think it had a name. I just thought I was insane. I even thought about going to therapy because of it (although I don't have enough money to do that.) Know that there is other people out there with this same condition and being able to talk to people about…
ContinueAdded by Ziggy Valentine on November 20, 2012 at 1:25pm — 5 Comments
Hello to you all. I'm glad I found this website and wonder if you can help me out?
I have been a daydreamer as long as I can remember. I went through many different DDs, which were inspired by many sources. Now, my DDs changed to a downright abusive hell. I don't know what is to blame. Perhaps returning to work from 2 weeks long vacation (spent with my head in the clouds - again) and not being able to fall in yet.
My MD consist of many characters of the different backgrounds…
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I have Aspergers (quite high functioning), and I am a compulsive DD'er. I daydream while driving and while in bed at night. I was wondering just how many of you all might also have Aspergers....look it up (look up women with aspergers) for women because it presents differently from men. Just curious if there was a possible connection.
Anyway, like many of you, music is a big trigger, especially while driving. I find it a good thing to listen to music while writing on stories. It seems…
ContinueAdded by Ms. Rose on November 20, 2012 at 12:37pm — 3 Comments
For the longest time I didn't even know I was daydreaming. Not until the end of high school and into college did I begin to realize that I had two distinct sets of memories, not just a jumble of one. Sure, sometimes I daydreamed and knew it as such, wild fantasies that could not possibly be true, but much of it was far less easy to spot. Now I suspect I had started blending my unfortunate reality with a far more comforting storyline when I was only 6.
I'm stuck trying to…
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This is something I do. Some of my dd is based on some stories I have read. If I read a good part in a book I will almost always apply it to my dd life with myself as main person. I even have more than 1 story line going at time. Help! Maybe I should stop reading for awhile. It triggers my dd.
Added by LJ on November 20, 2012 at 10:33am — 5 Comments
Coil- The Dreamer is Still Asleep:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZDnSvmv9J0
If this song does not speak to you, then no song written about trying to keep from daydreaming your life away ever will.
You know the artist who made this (Coil) has got to be a daydreamer himself. How else could one make such a resonant song about this subject? He gets it. :)
The lyrics also hit…
ContinueAdded by Tila on November 19, 2012 at 11:01pm — 3 Comments
Well and hello there. Pleasure to meet you, even if I cannot meet you, and a pleasure to see you even if I cannot see you. My name is Dusty, and I supposed I joined the site because I wanted to spill a bit of hope if I could.
I was actually directed here by a recent Yahoo article, which my roommate showed me because she knows my story. I had no idea this was a condition, but I suppose, thinking back on it, some things make a lot more sense now...
I was…
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Curious if the excessive daydreaming can be hereditary or could a person be predisposed because of genetics? I think my mother also lived in a fantasy world. She spend quite a bit of time alone, she was a homemaker and never worked outside the home. My dad was retired from the Navy and up until I was about 10 he was gone most of the time. She did have emotionally and physically traumatic experiences in her younger life that I think may have cause her to retreat into her perfect world.
Added by Peggy LaRue on November 19, 2012 at 6:40pm — 4 Comments
I'm new this website and i would like to tell you my story......................
From the time I was the age of four my father sexually abused me. The abuse lasted for 9 years, untill I was 13. Can you guess my age?
I'M 13. I used to go to a world were everything was perfect, where my familie was normale and the smells, sounds and sights were perfect. When i was younger i thought of stuff for "adults" like being free and living by myself and having a baby and a husband. I still due.…
Added by Sabrina Gonzalez on November 19, 2012 at 4:36pm — 2 Comments
I wonder, reading through so many new-entry blogs, how most of us got here. According to the study, most of us had fairly decent childhoods, little to no trauma that would usually act as the initial motivation for escapism. I'm no different - I had (still have) good, loving parents, a middle-class upbringing, and a good education. I will admit to having an addictive personality, as well as a tendency to want things to be more "perfect" than they can be in real life (i.e. I'm a…
ContinueAdded by Erin Kaye on November 19, 2012 at 4:28pm — 4 Comments
I been daydreaming at work ,now for 3 weeks. The past two weeks it's been the same. I am at a photo shot which is somewhere on the grounds of casetal . A male model get's out of a outside pool, hairless chest & white Speedo's. But last week, when he strips off his Speedo, he has a Muppet penis ( that talks). The Muppet say " What are you looking at ?". Then the dream stops & I get back to work.
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Added by Anne on November 19, 2012 at 12:02pm — 2 Comments
Pretty surprised when I read the yahoo article. Like so many other posts, I never thought others had this problem. Misery lives company.
Zero people know I have this problem. How do you bring it up with out looking completely crazy. I am fortunate to have friends and a family, but relationships are a struggle.
I have found treatment for adult diagnosed AHDH helpful and a seasonal affective disorder light box helpful.
Living abroad also helped. My brain was too…
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I stumbled across an article about this stuff on Yahoo. I was stunned because for the past six years I've assumed there was just something wrong with me and that I was alone with it. I've kept this a secret...from everyone. I'm still not sure how in depth I want to go about the other world that I live in. I made an alias, my other name, and picked a random zip code for where I live. I can't describe in words how it feels to know I'm not the only one who is locked in my own mind. I…
ContinueAdded by Etaru on November 19, 2012 at 8:00am — 3 Comments
In my real life:
In my MAIN other life (I have many):
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12 years.....
thats how long i been living in my mind......... half my life inside a world i created to escape the pain i felt to escape the truth, the pain of being me the pain i felt as a child from the things i went through......
12 years.....no matter how many times i repeated it no matter how i said it, it wouldnt give me back those 12 years as i sit here i think my life wouldnt be the same without daydreaming it would be boring nothing to talk about no…
ContinueFor all intents and purposes, I am a perfectly functioning adult as viewed from the outside. My studies are going well, I have a social life (when I want to), and I consider myself a hale and hearty individual. But for some reason, I often fall into this sort state of conscious hibernation, where I retreat into really vivid daydreams. It's been going on since I was young, and I thought it would eventually go away when I grew up. But it hasn't, not really. I looked up "excessive daydreaming,"…
ContinueAdded by Annie Huang on November 18, 2012 at 8:29pm — No Comments
Hi Everyone. I found this site through the Yahoo article, like a lot of other people. I was stunned to find out that there are others like me, probably again, like a lot of you. I'm nearly forty, and only until a few years ago, I had thought that I was living a completely normal life. In the past few years, a type of mental illness came over me after I lost my brother suddenly. All at once, I found myself living in this world again all alone, and it brought me back to thinking about my…
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