There's nothing wrong with it!

[eric s]

Mundane society has condemned dreamers since the beginning of time. 

 

When I was a kid I lived completely in my own head, and was terrified of the real world. Since then I've been through a lot of school and a lot of life and I've pretty much achieved all of my mundane goals. I'm healthy, in good shape, I'm a physician and academic but I only work part-time so I also travel several months a year. 

 

I'm not so sure all of this 'success' is all that important. Now that I'm comfortable, secure and relatively powerful, I don't really care. I'd rather be back in my head. It sounds crazy, but I'd happily be a couch potato playing MMORGS, chatting and watching videos all day, but I have chronic ailments which require me to be physically active in order to be healthy. 

 

Now that I've focused on the external world for so many years, I'm trying to bring my internal world back to life.

MDers, revel in your daydreaming!  When all of your friends and relatives tell you that you have to get out of your head, I say, get back in! 

 

Just pop out every once in awhile to let us know what's going on in there...

 

eric

 

 

[Cordellia Amethyste Rose]

Eric, I think most if not all of us can appreciate the beauty of being able to think so much.  However, when it becomes an addiction, ANYTHING needs to be at least tempered back a bit.  This wonderful, confusing, exhausting condition has had devastating consequences for me.  While I appreciate the beauty and cherish what it has given me, I need to learn to control it and try and gain some ability to live in the outside world.  A lot of other people are in my situation.  There's room for us all here.  

I created this site to welcome everyone............those who want to use it and love it.......and those who want to quit.  People have a right to ask for help and to state that they have a problem if they do.  Telling them to give in to something that has had a bad effect on them because it's not a problem for you is like someone telling an alcoholic they can't quit because the person him/herself is not an alcoholic.  There's room for us all.  I don't let people tell me to give into drinking, and I won't let people tell me to daydream more when it's something I need to learn to control more.  I encourage you to embrace all our points-of-view.  One person already left because there was so much of people saying it's a good thing and she didn't feel it would help her to quit.  I want everyone to feel welcome, listened to, and encouraged.