I'm reserching for the MD radio show and want to do a show on characters. I would love to have some input from you all on what to discuss about our characters. This is what I have so far as an outline,

Are you in your Daydreams?

Where do your characters come from? TV, movies, books, real life, made up?

Do you think all the characters are some part of your own subconscious?

Has your characters changed over time?

Are they telling us what we need..... or showing us who we are?

 

If you have any ideas, please post here or message me. You can send me audio of you talking about it, clips from shows, articles, etc. I want the show to be helpful and educational for people just learning about MD as well as us trying to cope with it. So let me know your thoughts on your characters. Feel free to comment on other topics you want covered as well.

Thanks!

show page;

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/daydreaming

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Comment by Tila on September 20, 2012 at 8:24pm

PS. Ok, so maybe they are idealized...I guess they wouldn't be daydream characters if they weren't just a bit idealized. The act of dreaming about them and never having to BE them makes them perfect.

Comment by Tila on September 20, 2012 at 8:20pm

1. No, I do not exist in my daydreams.

(One of the most beautiful things about it....it is very stressful to be me all the time. I hold myself to the highest standards in all areas of my life except maybe cooking lol....all of that perfectionism gets exhausting.)

2. The mom of one family is a fictionalized version of Souxsie Sioux (from Souxsie and the banshees) lol whose openness and coolness is also based off of my old best friend's mom, but who also shares my romantic interests. Four other characters are made up entirely, and the other two are based off of my old best friend and her younger sister.

3. I have come to see that each of the female characters represent a different part of my (conscious) personality. Grace has many qualities that I envy.....her tough upbringing, her musical ability, her deep abundance of intelligence in multiple areas. The mom (Briony) is more the face I show to the world....reserved, ambitious, creative yet still inhibited, secretly naughty. Etc. They are not idealized so much as the details of their superwoman-like achievements are blurred, making it easy to dream about, but always harder to achieve the same in real life. ;)

4. My characters are basically two families who I create story lines out of and reenact my life with. This basic structure has not changed much in 15 years maybe. Only the details change.

5. Certainly. They always let me know what I am not getting enough of in my real life....what I truly want. Who I truly am.

Comment by Wish Upon A Wish on September 17, 2012 at 11:09pm

1. I am in my daydreams, I am me but I'm different too.

2. Mostly made up, though one kid is based on a kid I met once some years back, but he's not the real kid anymore.... Well, actually, the original fantasy guy is dead and the other one, based of the first fantasy, is a d*ck. Why do I have him around?.....

3.I know my character is, I think Karla may be too. I never really thought about it.... Yes, I think they might be.

4. Yes, some have changed lots.

5.Hell, I don't know. I think a mix of both. I think my DD character is more like who I want to be, (though sometimes not haha) but maybe it's who I am inside. I guess I have to be Grey inside, or else she would be another character, rather than me from my POV.

(ps- like M Hunter said, I don't wish to be perfect, hence why Grey isn't perfect, and why I said that sometimes she's not who I want to be. It's so weird saying 'she' when, in a way, I'm talking about me, 'cause in the DD, we are one.)

Comment by roxanne on September 17, 2012 at 10:01am

I am always the central character in my DD, although over the years I have become unrecognizable.  And change all the time still.  But some core traits & physical attributes stay the same & I find those very interesting.  Most of the character/value traits are in sync with my own.  Where I wildly diverge is in physical appearance - recently I saw myself as Chinese with black hair, today I am Danish heritage with white-blonde hair.  I am all over the map.  But I don't age (in 30 years) and didn't even notice that until I came on here.  My original characters were primarily from books & they didn't age or change & so neither did I.  More recently they have been celebs, but as they age, I switch to some one younger.  Every 5-10 years.

Comment by taffle on September 17, 2012 at 9:11am

1. No, I rarely daydream about myself.

2. My characters come from tv, books, webtoons, manga, music, made up, etc.

3. My characters represent bits and pieces of my subconscious needs, desires, etc. For example, I DD about a strong, confident woman who is my main character in my DDs. She represents what I want to be but could not be in real life. Sometimes, when something negative happens to me in real life, I DD about a character that goes through abuses and suffering; I think it represents my need to unleash negative raw emotions.

4. Yes, my characters do change over time. For example, in the past, I used to DD about a certain dream guy. But over the years, my taste for guys have changed so I also change my characters in response.

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