Hi! I'm Maddie, I am 14 years old, and I am new to this website, I don't really know what to say, there is just so much.

I first started to daydream about different worlds, characters and plots when I was little. Some nights I wanted to keep going with my story I wouldn't get much sleep at all. My parents just said 'I had an over reactive imagination.'

Anyway, I would start a story, and when ever I was bored, mad, or sad I would add a little more. I always added some more every…

Hi,

I'm new here and I just wanted to talk about my personal experiences and see if anyone can relate. I'd really like to talk to some other people with similar experiences because up until recently, I didn't know there were other people who had this.

I've been daydreaming since I was at least seven, maybe younger. It started as something I did when I was bored. I'm an only child and while I did have a group of friends, sometimes I still ended up playing by myself. I really…

I'm new to this forum and I wasn't sure I wanted to share something right away but there's something that I wanted to add that may hopefully help someone - one thing I don't see on anyone's posts - although maybe I'm not going back far enough?

And that is that, for me, my addiction to my imaginary life happened because, as a child, I really came to hate myself. I hated who I was.

I remember when I was very little I used to have more normal fantasies, about growing up to become…

Hi everyone!

This is my first ever post so I thought maybe it should be about my story and why I decided to join this network.

My name is Erica, 20 years old. This is the first time ever I'm sharing this part of my life so my post might be a little awkward.

I don't know when I started to become a daydreamer but I guess I just had it in me for a long time. I don't usually dream when I'm sleeping but I always had this belief that if I dream about taking the exam in my…

Hi everyone,

Like many of you, I always thought I was the only person who daydreamed compulsively. When I started to finally address my lifelong anxieties I started googling and found this place! I’m currently really struggling with it, I am spending many hours a day lost in thoughts and pacing around. I’m not engaging in work, or household chores or with my husband. It’s causing me to become depressed because I feel as though I can’t stop.

I have been daydreaming like this…

I often daydream about being the World's greatest, most creative, most respected, most haunting, super-legendary, aspiring, inimitable, audience manipulating, perfect, god-like, tyrannical, unforgettable, mentally insane, Oscar-winning, award-winning, auteur, and gut-wrenching Japanese-American computer animation masterpiece-maker , cinephile, movie buff, film critic, author, digital artist, comic book artist, stop motion masterpiece-maker, anime masterpiece-maker, video game…

After several failed attempts to stop my MD, I've come to terms with the fact that I may never be able to get rid of it. In the world today, there is just too much stimulus for me to make a solid attempt at stopping. Especially now that I'm going into a career field wherein I have to sit on a computer most of the day.

I decided to approach it from a different perspective, why don't I try to condition my compulsion into something positive. So, instead of walking around rubbing my hands…

Hi everyone,

I was diagnosed with social anxiety several years ago. It’s a condition I’ve had since before I started school. As a result, I’ve found it difficult to make friends and have meaningful relationships and experience life fully in general.

I had two best friends when I was in elementary school. We were inseparable. However, in fourth grade we kind of somehow went our separate ways. They started hanging out with other people while I was left alone.

I think…

Well, I’m going to identify myself as a G, because I don’t really like my name and it’s big. And sorry for the English, I’m from Brazil and have some difficulties in this language. I just wanted to ... well, say hello. I discovered this forum this week and MD a few weeks ago. Before I thought I was crazy, a freak, something unsolved. I’ve done a lot of research into any similar condition in psychology, but I don’t think I’ve expressed myself well. I do this because I understand myself…

For all my daydreamers, I beg you, do something creative.

By doing I mean dedicate your life, or half while you make a living in some job, to make something with your hands or body. You spend so much time in your mind, in a land filled with adventure and conflict, all the emotions you feel trapped in a character that is you-enough to feel. This, right there, is perfect warm fertile ground for art to be born.

What is art but the caption of human emotions and beauty. The beauty…

Just an introduction really 

I have been addicted to fantasy and daydreaming since around the age of 6. 

I never realised so many people have similar kinds of experiences. I am prone to pacing around, muttering to myself, gesturing with my arms, lost in fantasy and reverie, with often very detailed and elaborate fantasies about situations or people playing out in my head. 

I think it all started seemingly harmlessly enough - I would imitate scenes from films and…

Hello People,

i will tell you about the content of my daydreams, because I believe it would help me to do so. I also have been writing them down and it is extremely embarassing to me. I would apprechiate any comments on what I need to improve in my life to reduce my daydreaming.

To preface this daydream, it is especially dumb and racist if you hate me for it you are right to do so.

I am sitting at a table in a restaurant with a band (i am a musician irl…