Is this MDD or "normal" daydreaming?

[Jenny]

After writing my post on here about the daydreaming I do to do with my own fantasy world, I've been starting to think about other types of daydreaming I do that I've never really considered before. For example, if I'm going to go out for a meal that evening with friends I'll find myself thinking about it during the day and imagining the conversations I might have with people, especially if I think a subject might come up that I'm anxious or worried about. I find myself doing this quite often, even when I'm getting ready for work and am thinking about the day ahead  - I'll do a "run through" in my head before I get there. I've never really considered doing that as part of MDD before, is that also how "normal" people think as well? Obviously everyone thinks about what they're going to do in the immediate future but do people imagine the scenarios in their head the same way I do? 

[Serina]

I have different daydreams. Mine are more like night mares. I will Be thinking of my past and all of sudden i'll Zone out, Like i am in this whole other world. A summary of my dreams I see my loved ones before me being brutally beaten, and murdered by this sculpted man with out a face. No name. No identity. 

[Katherine Milano]

I have been thinking about this lately as well. I do several types of daydreaming that I have never considered to be part of MD. I also imagine myself having conversations with people. I will often imagine confronting people or telling them things that I wish that I could tell them in real life but never could, and playing out the situation in my head. If I have an idea for a new project, I will imagine being interviewed about the project after it is finished, which is actually one way that I clarify the idea in my mind. I never considered that this would be part of maladaptive daydreaming until someone came on the site a little while ago describing that they did things similar to this and asking if that meant that they had MD. So I don't know, maybe it is part of it. I don't think that normal people do things like that.

[Cyan]

"Normal" people do imagine having conversations with other people, but I think when you do them excessively is when it's considered MD.

[Jenny]

Oh no Serina, that sounds so horrible! I'm sorry you have such distressing daydreams :(

It's strange to think that something you do in your head, and have always done such as play out conversations, might be considered "abnormal" for some people. I suffer from anxiety so I feel like that might be part of it too (being anxious about a conversation so constantly "practicing" it before it happens) but I think it helps me prepare so I sort of see it as a good thing.