So, I have spent my entire life thinking that I was the only person that showed these signs, finding out it has a name is both exciting and a little disheartening. The excitement comes from the fact that there are others like me out there. The disheartenment comes from the fact that we should be treating this like a compulsion or an addiction. For me, it is as much of a compulsion and addiction as breathing air. Yes, it has affected my life in ways that could…

Hello,

I'm new to Wild Minds so I am so overwhelmed by how many other people deal with this!

Anyway, I am a senior in high school so I am going to be in college soon. I am nervous about my MD showing around new people. I would be so embarrassed if my roommate caught me pacing one day. I'm also concerned about making friends if most of my time is spent daydreaming. 

Any college students have any tips???

Thanks 

Feel so good to be a part of Wild minds.Took long to approve membership.Finally i got a place where i can share all my feelings of md.

It has seriously affected my life i can't focus on daily things. But the worst case is that i can't share my feelings to anyone.My parents would not understand what i am going through and i am even not planning to tell them. My real life feel so bad and md helps me to cope up with the daily life stress. But it has starting affecting my life and do not…

Hi everyone. I'm a new member who wanted to give input into something I think can benefit you. I read somewhere that fluvocamine (used to treat OCD) helped them stop day dreaming. So I went to my doctor and had him prescribe it to me and literally the next day I STOPPED DAYDREAMING . 10 years of make believe fantasies stopped. However, the day dreams were replaced with constant rehearsing of conversations...so my therapist recommended I up my dose and so I did, and it stopped the…

Just thought I should introduce myself before starting to post.

Hello everyone, my name is Luisa Silveira but everyone just calls me Lu Silveira, once that's my artistic name. I am a 17-year-old trans male Brazilian actor and screenwriter. I haven't come out yet by fear of retaliation. I love barbecue and the color black. And driving. Can't wait until I'm legal so I can get my license. I'm also an INTP. I've been having Maladaptive Daydreaming (which I rather call Compulsive Dreaming)…

I finally, FINALLY got my Adderall today.  I took a pill immediately as soon as I got home. 

The dreams are gone. The MD isn't overtaking my mind.

It's such a relief that I actually cried. 

I'm so happy. 

So yup, I have ADHD and will be getting better meds to cope.  Hoping this shuts off the dreaming so that I can finally be free.

Confirmed for moderate to sever depression and anxiety, but that I already knew. Hoping that getting the ADHD and MD under control will alleviate this.

I also show symptoms of borderline personality disorder. This took me by surprised but I guess it's so, and will be going to therapy to correct certain symptoms.

So yay,…

I have been going through ADHD testing.

I have my final appointment on Thursday to discuss the results.  The psychiatrist said that while she couldn't officially say anything yet, my patterns are very conducive to ADHD symptoms.

I had also told her about maladaptive dreaming.  She had never heard of it before, but said she'd look into it.

I'm so hopeful that this will help.  Maybe some people can make it work but I just can't.  Maladaptive…

this has never happened before in the 3 years i've lived with roommates. i was pacing in circles around the kitchen (and it's the middle of the night) and my roommate walked in and i scared her so badly. it basically looked like i was charging right at her (even though that's not what i was doing at all). in my mind i'm just pacing, but to anyone else it looks and sounds like i am running at full speed and stomping my feet very loudly (i know this from my mom). i am extremely embarrassed and…

As from the title, yes. I am doing research on MD for my book I am writing. One of the characters has it. She is Guin, and she is twelve years old. I was trying to create her based off of my experience, but that wasn't enough. I am glad to get the word of the disorder out there. It is real, and people need help from it. I mean, I love daydreaming, but I hate the way it has affected me. I write due to it, but I lose time and stuff. At least, I get to do something. Though, I think my parents…

This random thought crossed my mind today. Isn't everyone guilty of trying to escape reality? We go inside our minds and create stories and different lives. 

Other people escape through gaming for hours or binge watching tv shows or films and people escape into books using them to take them into another  world. I sometimes feel I would drown in reality without my daydreams and worried why it was I couldn't cope but I am beginning to think everyone feels the same need to escape but…

i'm a recent member , i have this condition as long as i could remember...unlike some of you who wants to keep Md for life ,i want to completely get rid of it .It stole what could have been the productive years of my life. Although I'm super thankful i discovered when i did about the conditions, I tend to think avoiding Md and its triggers is a working progress and it will take a lot more than reading an article or blogging about it to reverse its effects on our actual world. I ''self…

I have a habit of acting my dreams out while I daydream. It is nearly impossible for me to daydream about something without acting it out. If I'm walking in my daydream, I pace (mostly because there isn't enough space to walk in a straight line indoors), if I need a shower, I daydream about showering (usually a plotline going on that I focus on) if I am sitting and need to daydream, I work my daydream around me sitting. If I start off on a daydream where I need to walk, the urge to get up is…

So this is my first ever blog post - like ever...

So, obviously, i am a maladaptive daydreamer, but up until a while ago, i didnt even know what that meant. At the very beginning , i didnt even know that i was different. I daydream a lot, i always have, and i would hear people apologise and say they were daydreaming when they weren't paying attention - i didnt know that their daydreaming was different from mine.…

Hi everyone! So, I dug out a poem I crafted some time ago, during one of my daydream crash. These were my reflections for those moments. 

M. Daydream

This experience is bittersweet

I long to be a person I can never be

A character created inside my…

I've been finding it difficult to daydream recently. My mind has been preoccupied with work stresses. It's been leaving me feeling extremely lonely and sad.

I have 2 days off from work and feel so low. Last night I had a lucid dream where I knew I was dreaming so I brought up my daydream guy so I could dream about him clearly. It sounds odd but even in my dream I knew this story came from my daydreams.

I follow this person on social media I've tried to cut down the amount I…

So, twice, it's been two times that, while I'm daydreaming, I've crossed the street with red traffic lights, and well, you know the rest.

This is a little scary, that's all. My dreams are already affecting me more than before....

But, I have a question (I'm sorry if my question is stupid...)

To what extent do you suffer from maladaptive daydreaming, or does it simply depend on the person?

Is that exaggerated? (I guess so, I'm trying to say that…

Hello People! 

This is my absolute first blog so allow me to extend my warm greetings to all of you.It's an absolute relief to know that I am not the only one in this world with this weird disorder(I know this line has become monotonous now as every Mder says it)which,I discovered a few months back,had a name,Thanks to Prof. Eli Somer,and my gratitude for the person who came up with the idea of creating this website for all of us which not only gives me a platform to…

Within

There's a conversation in her eyes,

Continents and oceans,

Stars and moons,…