well she is certainly me since I created her.

and we are the same, she is just MORE of me, letting herself actualize the things I dream about (both as me-real-life-me and her-character)

what if I would actually behave more like her? Since I already spend most of my waking hours (and sleeping hours as far as I remember) DD'ing about being her...

would I loose myself? or would I eventually be able to be myself? could I merge these two worlds of…

Today, I had to go to the hospital. A doctor needed to ask me more questions, because I'd already had a blood test and been asked questions, but I had to be asked more.

All of this was because I've been REALLY tired for ages and ages, so I had a blood test done to see why. All of it was fine.

Anyway, the doctor asked me "When do you get to sleep at night?"

I said "Midnight."

He asked me why. My Mum said it's because of me reading (actually my DDing, but I'm not…

Hello

I am new to all this so please be gentle ! I am a 17 year old girl who has formed in depth fantasy worlds since around the age of 15.After some research I believe I may have a mild form of ‘maladaptive daydreaming’ disorder.Symptoms that I posses that have led to this self diagnosis include ;

• Listening to music while daydreaming.
• Having very vivid fantasies.
• Becoming…

I have tried to deal with my daydreams for years. And it really helps to come to this site. And it helps speaking with a good therapist. In fact I began to google "daydreaming" because she was on vacation an I feel so lonely whith those issues. 

However I believe we cannot come out of this problem unless we recognize we have a addiction. And we are desperate  to do something with it. If drug addicts can deal with their problem why can't we? But we can't unless we really want it. The…

When I discovered that what I was going through was this condition called Maladaptive Daydreaming, a new chapter of my life had begun ...

I've set all of my previous writing efforts aside and I'm embarking on a completely new endeavor and YOU are some of the first to hear about it!

I have been screenwriting since I was 16 years old and I have to say that MD has changed my life in more ways then I could have ever imagined. It's been helpful, yet destructive. Comforting, yet…

I  had  md from my 9th class days and I was unaware of it.I used to think about fantasies for hours.with a special study room for me daydreaming was much easier. I remember those primitive days in which i used to daydream as well as study and score good marks.slowly the problem grew stronger and i had difficulty in concentrating in slightest of things. i made serious efforts to remove the problem only after my three consecutive failures in medical entrance exams. earlier i made some rules…

Like all of you, I love daydreaming when I'm bored. The only time it distracts me is when I'm studying and I space out after reading 10 pages (I'm a slow reader too). Well, I'm 17 and since I was born I've always loved watching cartoons, listening to music, movies, ect. I'm an only child and for most of my childhood I watched probably about 6 if not more hours of cartoons a day. I love the colors, the stories, everything. Even to this day I love watching cartoons more than live action stuff.…

I have last posted here last year and since my therapist has helped me shed light on my unusual daydreaming. It turns out I am a inverted narcissist. What is it? among other things it's immense preoccupation with fantasies of ideal beauty, power, money or other...but its's all done within the privacy of our mind. That's why we call them the INVERT Narcissists- That's because on the exterior the individual typically appears modest, even shy so that nobody knows what is going on inside them-…

"One day I will ask you, what you think about me" has broken my 2 months of DD abstinence. I've spent a week in rumination trance, observations and talking my thoughts. The good thing is that I learnt zero DD at work. The bad thing is limiting my sleep to have time for rumination. The worst thing is that I got emotional, really emotional, crying for no reason and almost having nervous breakdown. And now I'm back, ready to stop again and ready to take responsibility for what's…

For the sake of privacy names have been changed.

Also, there is some foul language in this blog, so I apologize in advance.

And I want to apologize for giving you the short version of my dream, it was just too much for me to write down. (-___-) Sorry. But I do hope you …

Hi All,

For the past couple of years, I have been searching for a name to discuss my behavior. After leaving college, my fantasies and daydreams took on a whole new level of reality for me, sometimes spending days in a hypnotic trance, pacing the same stretch of carpet back and forth, imagining myself anywhere but here. I was fully functional, holding down a job and paying my bills. But I felt that I was betraying myself living in the corporate world I had professed to…

I can't promise this works for everyone, but I've found that I can manipulate my daydreams so they become boring or unpleasant. If you can make everything go wrong in your daydream world, the real one will seem more appealing.

I've spent the last few days imagining I'm right in the middle of the London riots, and it always pushes me back into reality, where I'm far away from London, safe and sound.

It doesn't always work of course. Sometimes you just end up…