I have been emerged in my daydream for almost 2 years now. I began during a time when I was suffering in an emotionally abusive marriage. The characters have become more real to me than the people I know in real life. I love them and I miss them when I am not with them. Some days I can get things done, but then there are days I spend hours in my other world. About a year ago I tried searching for things like,…

Some times as a child, I would awaken in the wee hours of the morning scared beyond belief.  When this happened, I would cry out for my parents in the next room.  Thankfully, at least one of them would always respond.  They would enter my bedroom asking, " What's the matter?  What could possibly warrant such screams?". I would then proceed to tell them.  I would say, " I was just running from a horrible monster, not more than a minute ago!", and I would be…

Hello.  This is my first blog.  I just found this site because of a Yahoo article and I can't believe what I've found.

I had such an overwhelming feeling...I still can't even describe it.  It's like truly finding out you are not alone.

I'm so scatter brained right now I don't know where to begin...I daydream every day.  If I had to take an estimated guess of how long I daydream i'd say about 2-4 hours a day on average.   There are many triggers and it's not…

There are certain things I do when I DD I laugh out loud when one of my characters make a joke or do something funny. I would smirk or smile. I do funny expressions on my face. I make sound effects to my stories. People notice me staring blankly into space and ask me if I am alright. Sometimes I want to blurt out no I am not alright I feel that there is something wrong either me. I believe I have serious mental issues but after some personal research I am doing better.

My family sees…

I am experiencing excessive uncontrollable daydreaming and feel detached from reality often.

Something sparks my imagination and I create elaborate scenarios in my mind. I usually place myself as one of the characters. I have several daydreams per day that last from 5 minutes to hours. I keep thinking about these things and get so distracted. It just seemed to me that I had this weird problem that no one else had.  But after researching this

 I am happy to not be the only…

I have daydreamed for a long time but when your young you have the option to act out these fantasy. When I was around 8 me and my friends would play in the woods and pretend we were warriors or had superpowers,etc, did this till I was about 12 or 13. It was the most fun I had ever had and it really helped bring out my creative side. Ever since I was little I have loved making up stories. Even when I played with barbies, it was much more intricate than the way other girls would play.…

Raining without any notice

The sound is loud and light

The sky is not so bright

But it is what it is

The sky might not come clear

Same as me might have some fear

Do not regret what you have done and have not

Life is shorter than you got

Everything passed are nothing

Anything that being  is just a thing

And Future is no real

Even it would appear

You just sit and have a beer

Doesn't matter death…

Here is a wonderful new article on MD, done by Dr. Cynthia Schupak's (the most recent researcher on MD and a great ally of ours) daughter:

http://www.youbeauty.com/mind/maladaptive-daydreaming

I'm sure this article will help get the word out and reach more people who thought they were alone and crazy.  

Alright, so...here's the deal. I know that there is the "idealized self" aspect to MD, but have you ever had...14 different versions of yourself? Kind of like you make characters, but well, with yourself I guess. The thing was, that the other versions of myself were never really...created by me. They kind of just...appeared. Although this is also how I get most of my characters...you know, they kind of just...appear. What different between the…

On Saturday Bryn and I were on the tube returning home after going out for lunch. There was a young boy sitting across from us with his grandmother. After about five minutes of him staring at us, he got up and sat beside me. He introduced himself as Isaac and asked where we were going. I told him we were going home, and he responded by saying his grandmother was taking him to the Museum of Natural History to see the dinosaurs. I talked with him for a while and he asked if I could go with him…

This is something that has been bugging me for a while now.... But, just to be clear before I start, not ALL of my friends have reacted in these ways. I've been trying to be more open about this with my closest friends, and have even begun outright telling some of them. So far, the overwhelming reaction to my explanation of what MD is?

"Oh, really?? I think I have that, too!!"

At first, every single time, I get very…

Okay, so I hope I'm not the only one, but I can only daydream about real people. Sometimes minor characters change, but for over 2 years, I have daydreamed about the same two people's relationship. They broke up over a year ago. I don't really want to say who, but I feel like I kind of have to to explain this... I'll just say they are on YouTube, if anyone watches vloggers or whatever... I used to daydream about others, and they may sometimes change a little, but I have become so attached to…

Hey, guys... This is going to wind up being more of a personal vent than any sort of productive conversation starter.... Just warning prospective readers ahead.

Well, let's start in the present, shall we? I'm currently behind on more than half of my work in my college courses, most of which have to do with writing, one of the loves of my life. I'm constantly fading in and out of my relationships with others, sometimes not answering people's texts/phone calls for days at a time…

it's been awhile since i last posted!

there some reasons why i haven't been on this site as much, the biggest one being that i'm kind of over the whole "wow i have a disorder, i need to find out everything about it" thing. i've came on here and asked all my questions in my blog posts, i've gotten my answers, and i'm not really as curious about how other people deal with MD.

if you forgot, i'm a MD-er in high school and i have had MD since i was 9. i prefer to pace or lie down…

Hi,

Havent blogged before but here goes.

Ive just started at university doing geology and just dont have time to daydream anymore. So ive decided to stop completely for at least a month to see if I can convince myself I dont need to do it anymore. This is my secont attempt at this, last time I lasted 13 days before breaking, this time is different. I have stripped my room of epic posters with people on them, only maps and abstract images remaining and have put signs up…

i have this character who used to be the main point of my daydream. like, she was my "main" character for like, 3 years. last couple of years though i focused more on her friend and her friends, so i hardly ever daydream about that character anymore. like, she makes an appearance occasionally, but it isnt the same. I cant even daydream about her anymore as much because im too into my new daydream. but then i notice i have alot of characters that i forgot existed.  i feel like i should…

Today I finally got the guts to read one of the last issues in a  big trigger for me. There will be no more of this series which made me feel incredibly bitter sweet. I loved that manga to death and to see it end like that made me realize so much. All good things do come to and end. I have gone already deleted that world but still go back and forth every once in a while and currently can't take my current world. The manga left of on a bitter sweet cliff hanger only making me sadder. It got…