Hello there- I'm new!

[William Tobin]

 

I'm a new person that just joined!

 

Uh, let's see here... I have terrible word economy

I daydreamed a lot when I was younger, but there were many kids that did, it was usually about Pokemon/Digimon and various monster-related things and creatures. People thought I was awesome, I had the best stories, I could draw the coolest Mecha, and Teachers praised my creative writing...

 

When I entered high school there was obviously something wrong with me, nobody really behaved like this, I continued to be an artist and writer, but people just thought I was lazy when I spaced out or talked about a story in detail. I had vivid thoughts about anything, stories, what I was eating later, how the world was going to end. Sometimes I couldn't get out of bed because I was caught in a particularly deep daydream... It still happens now some days... because of this and some sickness I had for a while I failed classes, and I ended up staying back a year.

 

I joined the Anime watching club because it was something I was interested in and there was people who I looked up to.  By this time, I had decided that nobody understood me and I almost entirely stopped talking. Then after the leader left and they disbanded I joined a magazine club, the people there seemed more similar to me. I ended up meeting my girlfriend there. I opened up a little, but decided to keep stories to a minimum, for fear of scaring them off.

 

Me and my girlfriend eventually had a class together... I wondered if it was obvious how it becomes hard for me to do work because of the dreaming. I felt ashamed, I tried to play it off like I was really tired or thinking about anime. But then she told me it happens to her too, I hadn't noticed until then really. I was over at her house one day and we were both on her laptop, when I happened across this site, she told me not to join... maybe she really didn't notice how I behaved...

 

When I drift off into my crazy mind-world it usually starts small, I'll just be thinking about something usual. It builds up after that. "I'm eating fish sticks" could turn into an ocean with an undersea kingdom and the plight of it's people.  If I'm going on a date with my girlfriend it could be about how I would magically grow wings and fly her to my floating castle were I would use my culinary skills to make her tuna sushi.

Sometimes I think about stuff that's going to happen, I envisioned posting here since I learned about it a few days ago, but didn't do it until now... I've only slept for an hour tonight because the dream I had in that hour has been turning around in my head all night.

 

 

When I start dreaming, I can distract myself with my laptop. If I'm at school I'll space out or put my head down. In cases where I can lay down I do. If I'm in an enclosed space, I start pacing. I repeat myself sometimes.

 

That's all I can think of right now

 

[Marie]

hermmmm... I honestly never noticed... I just believed you when you said you were tired...

But often when I say I'm tired it probably means I just have a very strong daydream... Haha, we ended up being very similar. I'm sorry I tried to stop you from joining, at the time I had no idea.

[Jane Wilson]

Take notes, write your stories , bits of dialogue down, later in life when you are trying to do creative stuff these little bits of information will help kick start you creativity.  You sound very creative, decide how you want to express yourself , writing? drawing? maybe both.  If you have internet access you can find information to increase you skills in expressing yourself.  But what you can not learn and what is God given is that creative spark in the first place.  You have that, enjoy it, it is a good thing, set aside time to practice your creativity and that may give you more control of not using it when you need to concentrate on someting else.  Do not put yourself down.

[ZeltheDreamer]

Hello William, I'm new too :) I only joined the other day :) I wish my daydreams are as creative as yours sound...mine are mainly anime related lol Once I start watching an anime I feel the urge to use the characters and rewrite the storyline in my head....including myself in the story of course :)

 

Anywho Welcome :D

[Kristen B. Scherzinger]

Hello William, it's so nice to meet you, and welcome to the world of daydreamers.