Maladaptive Daydreaming: where wild minds come to rest
hi I am 35 years old , I got MD since I was 13 years old as a teenage I loved daydreaming , it all started from my school , I was in love with a girl and I proposed her to be my gf, unfortunately I got rejected, so I started to day dream about her, I found it to be interesting and pleasurable, I was happy to say at least I didn’t get rejected in my dreams, so I started encouraging my DD’s and then I started dreaming of other girls, this habit of my went uncontrolled and literally I started to get every new person I meet in in my DD’s and tried to impress them, initially I was happy I though it weird but it’s fine until no one knows about it , but then as time went things started getting worst , I started to day dream in public, I started getting people in my DDs whom even I don’t know, if I see a beautiful girl passing by, next moment she is my DD girl, if I see a expensive car, it’s in my DD, driving the same car, I started to do things twice one in real world and same thing in my DD soon I started to become unproductive I started to losing concentration, my memory became week, I couldn't remember things , this brought me lot of stress and anxiety, I did got caught few times by my friends and relatives while I was DD ,they just saw me walking on the road talking alone laughing making gestures, some of them did come back to me asking if everything was OK, I end up giving some stupid excuse and changed the topic but then these incidents kept me releasing that my DD is getting out of control, I need to control it or get rid of it before people start calling me as psycho, I always released that it’s something wrong deeply inside my mind,why i have to dream of every bull shit i see, i started getting depressed, but then i decided to fight back , i was confident that i am not the only person, bless by MD, (the word MD i came to know recently before its i didn't have any name for this)
Psychology is a science without a definition , every person has a unique mind, not all therapy works for all , meeting psychologist or therapist wouldn’t help much, there is no magic pill that works on mind, so instead going scientific way I decided to look for answers in spiritual world,
I am Indian, spiritualism have deep roots in our culture , when I was kid I heard lot of stories on how ancient yogis applied different mind controlling techniques through yoga to achieve Gnosis, this is one of the subject which also fascinated me ,so I thought now it time to hit it, I started reading books and traditional manuscripts on this subject, I started visiting traditional yoga school and scared places , remember I was in searching yoga for mind not for body, most of yoga school/studios teach yoga’s related to body but most of them even don’t know that yoga for mind do exists, in ancient India it was believed that to achieve higher level of senses you need to have a perfect mind, to make your mind perfect you need to purify your body, so by going through different stages of yoga one can prefect body and then mind, in today’s world we are just practice yoga for perfect body no one bothers going beyond that, back to topic after spending few months trying different yogic techniques, I came across over a very interesting yoga medication known as “yoga nidra” in modern terms it’s also called as “ dream yoga, but it’s not popular, this very simple mediation , allows you to intercept different layers of mind so called conscious state, the sub conscious state and the unconscious state and with bit of practice you can actually reprogram your mind , you can archive highest state of relaxation which helps calm down your mind, sounds interesting isn’t it,
well by now I won’t be surprise while you guys reading this sentence most of them have already goggled the word “yoga nidra” and learned how it works, in case if your still haven’t done it yet please Google this term , try to understand what it is, in my next blog post I will discuss more on this subject and how this worked for me
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Congrats on finding the name for your condition, and being determined to move on and not let this take over you. Sounds like you're doing the right thing; Finding something you can confide in and believe will help you move on with your life and not let MD get to you as often. :) Congrats again!
Good luck on your journey!
-Jennifer
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