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Maladaptive Daydreaming: where wild minds come to rest

Anyone DD about other people?

I never daydream about myself. I don't find it interesting. I have daydreamed about other people forever. I like to, though. One of the people I daydream about, I pretend is from my town, though, and I used to have someone made up in my head who had my same friends, but a completely different look and life. I never thought of her as myself. Does anyone else do this?

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Comment by M. Derp Peterséns on November 25, 2012 at 1:25am: I understand what you mean now. The characters lack the depth they would have if you were them, but depth will put restrictions on everything since it comes in one form (yours). Instead you are the puppeteer of a variation of perfect people that live in a world you master over.

Nothing is more defeating than being your own enemy, it will never forget ones mistakes and faults. Maybe one day you will see that perfection is not half as beautiful as the complexity and depth of who you are. Things that shine have a perfect surface, but it cracks easily and no one knows what is underneath.

Comment by Grace on November 22, 2012 at 4:27am: Well, the people in my daydreams could be me, I guess. I just never have really wanted them to. In my perfect world, there can't be a me. No matter what I try and do to change myself, I know who I really am, and I just can't be happy with it. If I were there, it wouldn't be a perfect world. So, i DD about perfect characters, with perfect lives. I have daydreamed about the same two for over 2 years now, and I cannot let them go. But they are not me.

Comment by M. Derp Peterséns on November 21, 2012 at 11:12pm: May I ask, how does that work? Is it not still you but with a different life? I've tried many times to escape myself but never succeeded no matter how many times I changed everything about me. The way I think, act, talk, respond, feel... A superficial change to be more confident - well it's still me but with more confidence. I could never make an authentic character that is not me, no matter what traits I may give it.