Discussion Does anyone else constantly daydream?

[Oiled Sandwich]

Ironically, it's the one major thing that's kept me grounded in reality. It doesn't matter when or where, I'll daydream. It's been so many years it's second nature at this point. Constantly thinking about a world that will never exist. Constantly thinking about a person I could never be. Feeling the joy reminiscent of the joy I felt when my eyes were shielded from the reality of how the real world works. It doesn't matter how much I enjoy these fake emotions and fake happy moments, because they're all delusions at the end of the day. At the end of the day, we all need to wake up at some point, which is why I choose to sleep forever.

 

[Tomorrow Is Today]

Yeah. It's my favorite escape. I always think about alternate ways my life could have turned out for the better, and the outcomes if I made different choices in the past. It's gotten quite bad to the point where I stare at my ceiling for hours on end, managing all my fake lives with more care than my real one.

Have you heard of Maladaptive Daydreaming? It's not an officially recognised diagnosis but it kind of describes some of my patterns nowadays.

 

[Always-in-trouble]

Yep. Pure derangement is what I might fall into soon. Can't even look at myself without an image of a defaced freak.

 

[woofwag]

Yess, I have AVPD so it's pretty much constant. Unless I fill my head with a BUNCH of other noise/stimulation, I'm probably daydreaming. And it's never anything nice, because of course nothing I have in my brain could ever be nice or comforting idk if it makes it any better or worse tbh… I've tried to stop but all I've done is minimize it by overstimulating myself, so. Not exactly an improvement