Patterns in daydreams

[Zaphod]

I don't know what it's like for anyone else, but in my other-worldly adventures, the same types of personality types show up again and again.

For example, in a "romantic" scenario, the male character is always, in some way emotionally unavailable. Even if they're relatively normal in  the beginning of the tale I usually find a way to screw them up!

"And why is this?" asks my (jokingly) named Voice of Reason.

I go all Freudian and answer myself - "Probably because I had an emotionally distant father, you ninny."

I know I create these personality types for a reason, and I know it's part of myself saying, "Hello? You've got a few issues here that need some attention..." But the bottom line is, I'm just not ready to deal with them.

Right now, it's a simple case of gratitude that the daydreams are making the patterns quite visible, and that I can actually recognize them for what they are.

Oh, and if I sound less than serious about this, please know that this is how I cope. I too am suffering, battling with, and at times raging at this "addiction". 

But sometimes I just have to sit back and laugh at myself.

[taffle]

I have different types of daydreams. One daydream involves a woman being depressed and mistreated by an emotionally absent partner. The other daydream involves a woman who's strong, assertive, wise, and basically the opposite of the first woman. I usually feel ashamed after doing the first daydream and tried to fight it off with the second.

[Larry]

I can relate. Even in my DD's I'm alone and the characters (idealized versions of myself) are stoically indifferent to anxiety and emotional pain.
The supporting characters always end up being arrogant sociopaths or authority figures.(usually both) They don't always start out that way, but that's how they end up.
Basically my real life experiences with my character playing my polar opposite.