I wonder how the next three days will go....

[Wish Upon A Wish]

Tomorrow, I have to be at school by about 7am because my outdoor ed class is going tramping in mount Somers for 3 days/2 nights. I wonder how much I will DD, and how much I will converse with my group, and if I'll end up making my DD visible while walking (you know, facial movements and the like) or if I'll manage to keep it hidden because most of the class doesn't know I have this.... In fact, out of my group of 3+me=4, I think only one knows. She was shocked when I told her about Compulsive Fantasy, 'cause she does it too, but, well, not compulsively (so she has plenty enough control over it. Lucky her.) Maybe I'll mention something to the others. Dunno. Ah well.

Oh, and the tramp is Monday-Tuesday-Wednesday, and then I still have regular school on Thursday-Friday. Ugh. I'm going to be so buggered. I'm also worried about how my sleep will go, actually, because normally it takes a couple of hours to get to sleep, but being in fresh air and getting exhausted, I should be able to get to sleep sooner, but it'll be cold (We had effing snow the past few days, and this tramp is 'round a bleedin' mountain. It. Will. Be. Freexing. Cold.) which may make it harder to sleep. Hmm....

Well, I may post a comment to this on how this tramp goes in the way of sleep and DD

[Wish Upon A Wish]

Okay, how it went: Tiring as Hell. Pretty good, though. It was kinda icy on the way their, and muddy on the way back, so a bit slippery in parts both ways. I can sort of DD while tramping but I mostly pay attention to where I'm going, but I think DDing may be easier than talking, 'cause I was silent nearly the whole time I was walking, but could DD a bit.

Sleep: First night was okay, someone was moaning heaps. I went to bed first, and Jamie and Franzi followed a little bit after (Girls/Guys had separate rooms, we had the smaller one.) Everyone else was being a bit noisy, and it was really loud when the rest came to bed in one big bunch, but I got reasonable sleep. I woke up though, both Monday morning before the tramp and Tues morning and bloody 4.19am. Same time both nights, in completely different places, I'm not kidding. Weird.

Second night kind of sucked, because we got back and Kaiapoi had come along for their tramp, and their were 14 of them. 33 people were in the hut in total, and it's made to hold 26 absolute max. It sucked though, 'cause we got split into BHS in the big room and Kaiapoi in the smaller one, and, with us, guys on the top bunk (it was like these bunk beds, but really big, and they had small, single mattresses to put on the bunks) and girls were on the bottom. After I moved all my stuff over, I just didn't want to go out of the room to the kitchen 'cause I just was a bit too stressed to want to deal with a bunch of strangers and thirty-odd people in total, and only went out to eat, then didn't want to go back 'cause when someone went into our room you could see their breath, it was that cold in there, so about 10pm we all got sent to bed, and Hell, it was so squishy in there, and we had no pillows (well, I tihnk a couple people did, but I didn't) and if you moved, chances are others would partially wake up and move too, so everyone moved like at the same times during the night haha but we had to put up with the moaning person, and she woke me up at 1.30am, which kinda sucked, and sometime after that I woke up and there was more room, someone had moved to the floor 'cause it was too squished for them. So yeah, it wasn't the best of sleeps, though there was something I kind of liked about being all squished up, but it wasn't so comfy and so when we got back I used up all (well, nearly all) of the hot water in our shower, and was in bed before 8pm. And I'm still tired. Managed to get Thursday (now) off school, yay! =) but yeah, overall it was pretty good, don't know if I'd go tramping again though.

[Liza Maria Medina]

Good Luck on your trip. I have a hard time at first when I can't DD for a few days but by the end I always feel pretty good and like I don't even have to DD anymore but I usually end up doing a DD binge where I go for hours since it feels really pent up. Something I like to do is just take a moment and really become aware of my surroundings and the people who are around, just focusing on the feeling of the environment like the  temperature, the smells, and sounds. This helps me become more alert for at least a little while before I go right back to being half in reality and half in dreamland. 

[Jennifer]

Good luck, sir! I wish you the best. I know from experience that going away, whether it was a family vacation or a weekend at the beach with my best friend, would really be frustrating and emotional when it came to not being able to daydream. It's hard to be alert all of the time, especially when you're used to daydreaming all of the time and suddenly having to stop. :/
I'm sure you'll be okay. :))