Hey my names Elle, I'm 18, and like most of you i've being daydreaming since is was young. It'so good to be able to talk to other people about this, so i have a few questions :)

 1) I'm now in my final year of school with my last exams 3 weeks away and was wondering if MD affects anyones ability to concentrate and study?

2) Do you find MD has affected your social life? I have a big group of friends and love social events but after a few hours i find myself making up excuses so…

The deepest thoughts penetrate my mind when I’m immersed in myself, listening to notes that pluck the strings of my moods, stirring the taste buds of my mind. I think of death, Nick, and that girl when certain soft sounds reach my ears. I spin in the darkness as my mind reaches out to the untouchable place where they are. I wonder at the impossible as my emotions tangle with the music and my mind drowns in thoughts that aren’t speakable. I long for Koni Latu’s presence as I sink to the…

I have been dreaming about my own worlds and coming up with characters and plots for as long as I can remember. When I was in primary school I loved engaging in role play and fantasy with other kids. We all had our own imaginary worlds and would freely share our stories with each other. Most of them grew out of it, but I remember one friend who still worked on her world when she was a teenager. She also wrote short stories. I don´t know if her world is still "active". Although we are very…

Oh boy.....I have waited for years and now there is a name associated with this behavior!  I "rocked" and listened to music for YEARS!  Since I can remember...all the way until I was 31.  I am 44 now.  I need to understand what took over my life for such a long period of time.

As long as I can remember, I could rock back and forth and get lost in whatever music I felt like listening that day.  It was something I HAD to do!  Before work, at least one hour was set aside to…

have you ever come up with a new character and daydreamed about them so much that it starts to seem like they're the new main character even though they're not and you don't want them to be so you try to keep yourself from daydreaming about that character because you're afraid that they'll become the new main character which you don't want to happen?

^ wow, run-on sentence xD

but that's been happening to me lately... -_-

it's happened to me before, and when that happened…

Let me introduce myself as Jessy. I have had MD ever since I was about six years old, when it all began with the likes of cheesy Hollywood movies, Sailormoon, and Power Rangers. I am not one who would imagine it all inside the head only - I would always act out my daydreams, incorporate every gesture and move I make into what I would experience in them. To do this I always paced, ran, jumped, and even voiced all of my characters and made sound effects. All of this had always made daydreaming…

I am so happy because I just figured out that I'm not totally crazy. Maybe a little, but that is ok by me.

My name is Kristen, I'm 19, and I just learned about MD today! I've looked online before for evidience that I wasn't the only one that paces their room pretending to go to hogwarts. haha that sounds super weird. I really thought I had a mild case of Schizophrenia, but I don't, so that is good. Now I've found a community of freindly people that don't think I'm a freak for doing…

Holy mackerel, I haven't been on this site in a while!  I've kind of been a bit swamped with school, for starters, but many interesting things have been happening lately.  I figured I'd share some of my latest experiences with all of you, since a number of them have to do with my MD.

I took a rather risky leap of faith in my writing class, specifically regarding the topic I chose for our first paper.  Our professor started us off with a simple assignment: we had to write one…

 I was told a blog post would be the best thing to do that's why I bring my previous post over here.

 So this is the first time ever I write down my thoughts I always thought about it I mean telling someone but I never could I always thought about a diary but even there I was scared someone would find it and make fun of me.

I Daydream a lot as long as I can remember I think it all started when i was around 6 or 7 I remember I could only sleep with music so my mom got me a CD…

ok i will start saying i'm not american and i don't speak a lot of english but i will try my best to post this.. sorry about my bad english...

my daydreaming before the miracle was total, i did it all the time and i couldn't stop even if i wanted.

what happened is that i started to go to a christian church and i started to notice that other people who went to church started to heal from cancer and others diseases and on sunday before i went to church i said to god, "ok, my…

Have 2 weeks that my ex-girlfriend finished our relationship,

a lot of times she said that i was not so affective, that i was always distant.

And i had percieved that when i was with her, my wish to daydream was stronger,

Sometimes when we travelled i could not DD at least not pacing,

so i stood more distant and a little bit nervous, All i could wish was stand alone and DD.

Even in my family most of the time i want to be alone,  

i don`t want to talk…

I came aross this thought today. Do you think DD is acting or reacting?

Because, the stories we come up with may be actions at first, but once we develop the characters and face different situations, is it still acting or does it turn into reacting (even though basically, it remains acting in a way).

Just a thought...

This is my 1st post. Pretty much all of my DD include people that have touched my life in some way. They usually involve people that are important to me or those that have passed away. My DD's are very elaborate and often dark, even apocalyptic.  If the fantasy's are not negative in nature, they usually involve my adult life. The only positive DD's I seem to have are romantic in nature and few and far between. My brain never shuts down, my memory is excellent and I remember much of anything…

I'm going to begin to blog about my MD so that maybe i can get a better grip on it. R.E. see how its affecting my life more realistically. And then kick its ass. 

I can function. I'll say that much. I have read some people say that they have no control over it whatsoever and my heart goes out. If i have to I can shut it off. My career to date has been pretty successful. I'm looked at as smart, got it together, on her way to the top etc etc. ( even thou i've recently been out…

Is philosophizing a way of daydreaming too?

I meqan, because of how it makes me feel & how I (don't) control it.

I can think of a single thing in so many different ways it's weird. The other day I even gave my sister an impression of what a certain desktop wallpaper could be. What it could show, what an artist was thinking while making it. What colours could mean. What was my favourite thing about it. That kind of stuff. An interpretation. But most of the time I think…

You know how I said that I wanted to solve all of my DD characters' problems in the hope that they would disappear? Well, it worked. Then I spent a few days not thinking about them (there was no point). And I just daydreamed about other people, (a new daydream has started and I know it'll last for months). Anyway, I hate it when this happens. My DDs last a few months and then they change.

I hate the transition between one DD and another. It's like I fight the new one. Anyway,…

I have only recently started to look into maladaptive daydreaming, which is surprising as it is something i have been doing since a very young age. I have always battled with my sense of self, perceiving my personal life goals as achieving contentment in myself so that i can experience more and give more. What shocked me profoundly is how even though I have been very aware of these daydreams all my life, the detrimental effect this has had on me is huge, and explains a lot! I feel relieved…