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Maladaptive Daydreaming: where wild minds come to rest

why am i so attached to my characters??

seriously.

last week, i was lying in bed daydreaming, and it was about something really sad happening to some of my characters. i started crying.

afterwards, i felt weird.

these are fictional people that i created in my head.

why am i so attached to them?

i also like to edit pictures of people from the internet (mostly celebrities) to look like my characters, because i like to look at them in real life and not just in my head. i was doing that a lot yesterday. i feel like if the actual people in the pictures knew that i was daydreaming about characters that look just like them but with minor changes 40% of the time that i'm awake, they'd be really creeped out. but they'll never find out. so i guess that's good.

i just love my characters so much. i think they're all so interesting, and that' s probably why MD is so addicting to me.

are any of you as attached to your characters as i am?

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Comment by Jennifer on January 28, 2012 at 11:58pm: You are not alone. Oh my gosh, everything you mentionedin your above post I could relate to. Trust me, every single thing you said. You are not alone or weird. I promise. Sounds like me, and I'm sure there are many others that feel the same. :)

Comment by roxanne on January 28, 2012 at 7:22pm: Yes, I am very attached.

Comment by debbie downer on January 28, 2012 at 6:33pm: i've killed off two characters! i have cried before thinking about how both of them died, but that wasn't what i was crying about last week. it was just to make the daydream more interesting, it would be way different if those characters hadn't died.

Comment by BilboBaggins on January 28, 2012 at 6:30pm: Whoa, yes. I've started crying before, too. I make facial expressions that match their moods all the time (sometimes a family member walks by-awkward)

I've tried to kill off and character and just couldn't do it. I missed him too much, it was pretty weird. I've tried to draw all my characters before, but I get frustrated that my limited art skills doesn't do them justice; the same goes for writing.

I find my characters extremely interesting as well,, which I suppose is kind of strange since I made them up, yet I'm so mystified by them! So, yes I definitely am..