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Crying during daydreams

So this new thing has started happening. Today has marked the second time where I have cried during a daydream. The first time I did it was only two days ago. I act out my daydreaming scenarios as they happen in my head, from facial expressions, to gestures, to dialogue, to actually moving around the room as they would (though I also just tend to generally pace around, even if they are sitting still). The content of my daydreams can be emotionally gripping and over-powering. In these two separate scenarios today and also two days ago, I was so caught up in the emotions that the characters were experiencing that I actually cried when the character cried.

It was so powerful. I'm kind of addicted to feeling that again.

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Comment by The1andonlyAbber on February 20, 2014 at 6:56pm: I actually don't daydream about sad scenarios that often. I usually prefer to daydream about happy or scary ones.

Comment by The1andonlyAbber on February 20, 2014 at 6:55pm: I don't cry during my daydreams, although I do feel really depressed when something majorly bad happens. For example, 6 days ago (3 days in real life, time goes faster in my fantasy world), my imaginary little sister ran away. We can't find her. She could be dead for all we know. I know she's not real, BUT I MISS HER SO MUCH!!! :_(

Comment by Sandra on January 31, 2014 at 8:57pm: I luckily don't go there often. I kinda wish my daydreams weren't so realistic. I used to have a much
More fanciful, creative, fun dreams. If it seems as though daydreaming isn't going anywhere, I at least want to have more fun with it.

Comment by Queen Dopamine on January 30, 2014 at 8:49am: Aww, that sounds really sad. :(

Comment by Sandra on January 29, 2014 at 7:59pm: Since my daydreams are largely reenactments of actual events, I do cry sometimes. When a song reminds me of one of my grandparents' deaths, I am put back into the moment I was told they were gone. I am put back in the viewing, the church, the burial.. And there are usually hysterics involved.

Comment by Machelle Irby on January 29, 2014 at 6:44pm: She does know about my daydreams, and that i sometimes cry during them.

Comment by Queen Dopamine on January 28, 2014 at 6:49pm: I do something similar, Machelle. I will have these parallel storylines or various other scenarios that don't happen on the same track, or they get repeated often. Thank you for sharing!

So your mom does know you daydream, and she sees you do it? Or do you play it off and pretend you're crying about something else?

Comment by Machelle Irby on January 28, 2014 at 6:25pm: I cry often during the deaths of my main character (my daydreams don't happen on the same timeline, the same character dies, and is continued to be used afterwards). I've also cried during the deaths of some supporting characters. I have had some where the main character is very badly injured in accidents, her family is all dead. It's very interesting when my mother sees me crying in a corner, over a fake person dying

Comment by Queen Dopamine on January 28, 2014 at 5:58pm: Oh my gosh, that sounds really intense, Magenta. I daydream every day, but the scenarios, while they always make me feel good, or I like doing them, it's less common for me to experience something so intense, so gut-wrenching, so deep. Not to say my daydreams are boring or without emotion on a daily basis, but they don't always reach that level. It can be depressing when I do. For instance, this last scenario where I did cry--it was so intense, I just had to stop. Daydreaming didn't even fulfill me anymore. That in of itself was depressing, too.

It also gets depressing that the people in the daydreams aren't real.

Comment by OhMyMagenta on January 27, 2014 at 9:44pm: I have often cried while daydreaming. Probably more times than I'd like to admit. I'll come up with a sad scenario and suddenly find myself crying. One daydream that triggered a particularly emotional response involved the sudden death of my (daydream) husband from a heart attack. I sobbed for hours! For me, I was experiencing a very robust grief response that evoked such sadness I eventually had to do an 'it was only a dream' sequence to quell that feeling. It actually kinda scared me that I could develop such profound feelings for a man who only exists in my head.

Although I don't consciously feel the need to physically act out my daydreams, every now and again I'll catch myself mouthing the words of my character or making a small gesture with my hands. I don't even realize I'm doing it and I only daydream when I'm certain I'm alone, so there's no one to confirm.