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Some people here are familiar with the story "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" originally written by James Thurber in 1939. It's about a guy who works for a publishing company and lives in elaborate fantasy worlds but eventually goes through a real life adventure. 

I strongly suspect that the author understood MD very well. Anyway it was made into a movie in 1947, but the modern remake with Ben Stiller as the main character Walter Mitty is due to come out…

The following is an email from Eli Somer, explaining the time table as to when we'll see some study results.  

"Dear Cordellia,

Thanks for your informative note. I admire your courage and your dedication to promoting awareness to MD.

As for the study's time table. I anticipate that data collection will end in a month. We will than begin a series of data analyses the first of which will be completed in the fall. The write up of the first in a series of a few scientific…

Hey everyone this is my first post in here,i find all your stories interesting and familiar..

i had to habit of going to my own universe since about 6 and it never bothered me to much,i actually enjoy it and think its a awesome ability..i DD for about 30min a day in average but sometimes it can be up to 2hours.i dont feel addicted to it although i sometimes have a strong urge to do it like after watching a cool show etc..

so my question is those of you who stopped or lessen…

 I feel really low about MD right now I read in a stanislavski book ( he is the for- father of modern acting) and it says an actor must keep good mental health and resolve depression when it first acours, after 3 years of un diagnosed severe depressive syptoms i final feel that i am almost better, but does this mean to recover the years spend in an acting slump due to depression i have to also resolve MD to be able to have "good mental health"  i have have forms of md ever since i…

My DD has never been as bad as it has been the last 3 weeks . I did so good for about almost 2 years with just trying to keep myself busy and staying away from music as much as possible because music is and has always been my trigger. I would lie if I said I stopped all together .. nope I had my moments but nothing to dramatic. I don't know what happend but I'm so into it at the moment I do nothing else but go to work come home clean cook wait till everybody is in bed and sit in the living…

I feel like i know whats its like for an alcoholic to admit to their addiction,  both to themselves and others.  And this feels like stepping into an AA meeting for the first time and introducing myself to others in my situation.  

Hi i'm Lisa an I am an excessive daydreamer. 

Perhaps thats just my overactive mind going again, I realise that I just acted out that scene in my head.

So I have been daydreaming in different forms for as long as I can remember and nearing 30…

Wild Minds Network is like other social networking sites.  After creating an account complete with username and password, you automatically receive an Inbox, Alerts ... and it asks you to add a profile photo.   I don't know about anyone else on here, but simply creating that Wild Minds Network account (proving that I was a "real person" with an email address) took all ..  and I mean ALL ... of the courage I had.  

Adding a personal photo?  Absolutely NOT.  Somebody might be able to…

hi everyone! I've been debating making a profile here for a while now. I'll start with a little bit about myself-- my name is Paige, I'm eighteen years old and headed off to college in just over a week. my major is animation, I was accepted into a very nice art school in California with a hefty scholarship, and I'm super excited. the down side is that it's also my catalyst for joining this community. I promised myself I'd be very, very honest here, so here comes an embarrassing summary of my…

I am not sure if I will be able to get rid of MD completely but I hope to try to manage it.  One thing, I have been doing is DDing while exercising.  I DD with music while I am exercising on the elliptical. I end up staying on the elliptical longer as I don't want to stop DD. lol   This way I have been getting my DD fix but I am also getting healthy.

I guess someone from the outside looking in would not think MD has affected my life.   I am an attorney at a Fortune 500 Company. In addition to my JD,  I have two master degrees.  I have been married for 17 years and have a son.  BUT MD has affected my life.  I think I could have more friends than I do now if I wasn't devoting my extra time to DD.  Although I did keep in touch with my mom over the years, I should have called more - but she is dead now from ovarian cancer.  I also would keep…

I apologize in advance that this may be a little messy. I'm not sure where to start.

I've always been indecisive and afraid of settling. It takes me forever to make some rather trivial decisions such as the things I want and the things I want to experience. Sometimes I feel as if my daydreams have caused this by taking out my "identity," so to speak, and that I want to be very careful with who I "really" am. I always wished that I would "be me" naturally; as in no hesitations when it…

I was diagnosed with bipolar disorder 6 years ago when I was nineteen. It was shortly after that that I started losing myself into daydreams. I was always an imaginative child but it was usually just with ordinary childhood games like house, Barbies, or games that children play together, with the exception of a "sort of" imaginary friend that I had when I was around three years old. She wasn't really a friend, she was another little girl that I spun around and turned into. Interesting…

When I first found out I had MD a few years ago, I was incredibly pissed off and upset. I felt like I was literally daydreaming my whole life away. 

I don't really know what happened since then and now, but I've come to realize that my MD has been a good thing. Whenever I get upset, I daydream for an hour or so and afterwards I feel so much more refreshed, happy, and energized for the rest of my day. 

Whenever I feel restless or stressed out, my daydreams have honestly been…

I start daydreaming as soon as i wake up most mornings. it's like i go through periods of being able to go right back to sleep after waking up to not being able to go back to sleep after waking up.

A week ago i would go to bed at 12 midnight and sleep until 7am-7:30am. And then my mom had to go to work around 7am so she'd be up at 6:30am  and she'd wake me up with all the noise she made. 

now its like i cant even sleep until 7am. i keep waking up at 6:30am-ish…

Been daydreaming about being put in a mental hospital. I was so happy to go. I felt like I could finally rest, be safe. Very strange.