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…

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…

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.

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.…

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…

  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.

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…

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…

In my real life:

• I live in Tennessee.
• I am 21 years old.
• I work at McDonald's.
• I'm single.
• I have no children.
• I live with my mother.
• I have no friends.
• I have no love life or sex life whatsoever.
• I'm over 200 pounds.
• All I do is eat, sleep, work, get on the internet, and daydream.

In my MAIN other life (I have many):

• I live in London.
• I'm famous.
• My age…

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…

For 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,"…

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…

I am new here.  I just read the article by Amanda Schupak on Yahoo and was shocked to learn that what I have experienced as my normal life these past 44 years was shared by others.  I have always been ashamed by it.  What I read in the article and have read so far on the blogs is so amazing.  I share so many of these experiences.   So many things seem to make sense.  The vivid nighttime dreams, which I have always remembered so easily (and friends growing up always thought I "made up"), the…

I started being hounded by the paparazzi as a preteen. 

"What is your new film about?"  "When is your wedding?"  "What do you think of the Iran hostage crisis?"

People wanted my opinions.  They wanted my autograph.  They wanted my photo to be taken with them.

They were there when no friends were.  They were there when I barricaded my bedroom door so my mentally ill sister couldn't come in and hurt me.  They were there to adore me when my mother…

Hello everyone... :) I found this website on Yahoo News while I was reading an article... I simply wanted to write from my own personal experience with daydreaming... Its so encouraging to read how you all are searching for truth in regards to this serious issue and being there for one another... supporting each other... how wonderful... keep doing what you are doing... I'm 31 years old... Growing up in a verbally abusive environment with constant conflicts every day... I…

Recently Yahoo! picked up an article about maladaptive daydreaming featuring our fearless leader, Cordellia. I'm 100% behind anything that gets our issue out in the open and raises awareness. But it makes me feel like my bubble will be burst. When I first found out that there were other people like me I was so relieved! Then I felt like I had to change from being an oddball to being part of a group. That was a new experience. It's still foreign for me to feel like I "belong" somewhere but I…

Not really sure how this website works – I am kinda “old school” when it comes to tech like this. Anyway, I felt the need to share my story here. Maybe just as a way to reach out to others who would actually understand on a level that no one I have ever met in person has been able to do. I have “confessed” to a few folks over the years. No one has ever been openly judgmental or anything, but you can tell that they don’t really understand what you are talking about. I have gotten the…