ask a a guy who suffers from Maladaptive Daydreaming anything(srs)

[ThePhenom21]

Lol this happens to me sometimes when I'm taking a shower. It's like it's happening and not happening at the same time. Only happening in your mind, and once you realize it you're like lol wat.

happens to me every time i take a shower, i get stuck in a trance and end up taking a half hour shower.

good to know that im not the only one. i thought i just had add or something of that sort but this is different

[Drake27]

I'm like you op except not to that extreme

whenever I hear music I slip into a state where I walk back and forth and just think and daydream about a bunch of **** for at least an hour

I do it a few times a week it's strange but it just feels really good like it relieves stress and makes me happy

I also catch myself playing out scenarios talking to people that aren't there when I catch myself doing that I'm like is this real life

thank the ****ing lord and the law of averages! I knew there had to people on this forum that have some form of this ****

yes it relieves stress and makes me happy.. its like a flood of dopamine or serotonin rushing through my brain.. it feels so ****ing good (no homo)

bro what do you mean not to that extreme? your almost a damn mirror image of me, no need to feel ashamed.

you can PM if you want to talk

[Echo399]

Do you talk to yourslef alot? Like talk to your daydreams? Can you come out of it whenever you want..like going "wtf man this is stupid"

I get lost in the music too haha that's weird. I'm CONSTANTLY spacing out..my eyesight has gotten worse because I don't strain to look at things cuz of the spacing out. Sometimes it feels like the feeling you get when you've been up for like 30 hours straight....like half in a dream. I figured I just think too much and need to come back to reality..weird **** man..

[Dhboy]

[semenreleaser]

I may do what the OP described for like a minute or so. I cannot fathom getting lost in my daydreams for hours, and my daydreams are pretty vivid.

[thefloopist]

Cliffs on what maladaptive daydreaming is?

Edit nevermind. I'll just read it.

[fat_narcissus]

would get drunk with OP/10


but sounds like some crazy stuff brah.

Whats your favorite daydream that you've had so far?

[Lexemes]

F*ck I'm laughing like a giddy child at this thread, I don't mean to sound ignorant, my deepest condolences OP but god damn some of the replies...

On that note, I think this is just normal human psychology, I do the same from time to time, albeit not for 2 hours at a time, but it is a great stress reliever to act out a good scenario in your head.

Sometimes when I'm listening to music I'll move my hands to the beat, like an orchestra, or I'll think of somebody, who, earlier in the day or week pissed me off, and I'll imagine fighting them or something (srs) I think it's normal to a degree, maybe not at the severity in which you have though. I suppose that could be said for most things though - the more frequently you do them makes them what they are, the severity is the indicator of whether or not it's a disorder.

[CoolYam]

record it next time.

[Zen18]

lmao do you get vivid visions?

[danny987]

yamean?

http://forum.bodybuilding.com/showpo...3&postcount=98

I have the same exact thing. Lots of imagined convos with my real friends.

[Dr._S._Colbert]

How about we post a 10/10 or something that will set you off and you record/broadcast your daydream?

[danny987]

How about we post a 10/10 or something that will set you off and you record/broadcast your daydream?

It doesn't always happen and you can't control when it does. atleast in my experience.

[Dhboy]

dont think of spiders bro

[ThePhenom21]

pictures of 10/10s have never made it trigger, when it does involve girls its usually girls from school/im friends with.

back when i played hockey in hs i would listen to music and day dream about hockey for hours before games.

today my dad was teaching me C++ and in the middle of it i started to day dream about being in my dorm and programming.

the thing about these day dreams is that i remember them vividly, while normal dreams i cant remember.

[jedi786]

I have this **** also (srs)

OP: do you drive around a lot meaninglessly and ****?

FUUUUUUU

[Tyler_Durdin]

thank the ****ing lord and the law of averages! I knew there had to people on this forum that have some form of this ****

yes it relieves stress and makes me happy.. its like a flood of dopamine or serotonin rushing through my brain.. it feels so ****ing good (no homo)

bro what do you mean not to that extreme? your almost a damn mirror image of me, no need to feel ashamed.

you can PM if you want to talk

Well for instance I've never created a whole fake family or anything to that extreme

on the brightside I have learned to make it work for me I tend to daydream now more about my goals and ambitions and it makes me work harder

it never use to affect my lifting but for some reason latley I daydream the whole time when I lift and can't help it like I just slip off gradually and I'm like oh **** time for my next set

[danny987]

Lol i just had one where i was telling my friend about how i had maladaptive daydreams. 100% srs

[Dr._S._Colbert]

Do you control these dreams and know you're dreaming, or get lost in them?

[Lexemes]

Something I started thinking about (perhaps daydreaming about? lol) just now, is the link between marijuana and this type of thinking. Anybody see any relevance? You'll have to have smoked pot to know what I'm talking about... when I used to smoke I'd go really deep into thought, maybe there's a link somewhere?

Lol i just had one where i was telling my friend about how i had maladaptive daydreams. 100% srs

lmao THIS, kind of getting lost in thought wondering what it'd be like to tell a friend, etc.

[Janderson21]

holy shiit dude. never heard of this. thats nuts

[Echo399]

Something I started thinking about (perhaps daydreaming about? lol) just now, is the link between marijuana and this type of thinking. Anybody see any relevance? You'll have to have smoked pot to know what I'm talking about... when I used to smoke I'd go really deep into thought, maybe there's a link somewhere?



lmao THIS, kind of getting lost in thought wondering what it'd be like to tell a friend, etc.

Thought this too...

I think it makes it worse..or better..depending on how you view it.

[tablecloth]

i had no clue this was even considered a psychological condition.

when i go into my daydream scenarios, i think of all the possible angles. if im daydreaming of winning the lotto, i would imagine exactly how i would react and what i would do next. Would i tell people i won the lotto? What kind of food would i eat, what kind of gifts would i buy my parents and closest friends, and it goes on and on

the amount of details is the funniest part

[pacmane]

i fantasize about shet sometimes like if im crushin on a girl i play out scenarios where we are bf & gf... but not for any longer than 10 mins at the most lol

[danny987]

I have never smoked mj

[Ron_1]

i do this all the time lol!! didn't know there was a name for it

its so embarrassing when you get caught and people are like wtf where you just doing...

also its hard to explain to your mom why you take like two hours to take a shower lol i don't want to know what she must be thinking.

[boostedcivic]

How do you know your real life isn't just another intricate daydream?

mind = obliterated

[PremierAccount]

Can you tell us more about your fake family, what do they talk about? Whats their names?

[Drake27]

Do you create a complete alto-ego, the ideal you, in your mind, and act it out as if it were your real life?

Yes I have an ideal verison of me.. the ideal me is perfect in every way possible. knows what to say the girls, alpha at all times. for example if i had ****ty interaction with a girl im crushing on or find cute... omg its wrap
cuz when I get home I KNOW it already set off a trigger. I pace back and forth and re run that interaction in my head. The ideal me says WHAT I SHOULD OF SAID the ideal me DOES WHAT I SHOULD OF DONE etc

I do this all the time.

You sound like you have a interesting life OP. I can't ever imagine you get bored

no I never get bored.. its my dark passenger, it will never leave me. it scares me sometimes.

Interesting. Why don't you write a book? Srs. If you have the gift/curse of playing out scenarios in depth it seems like writing could be a good release?

sometimes i write **** down but for the most part i say **** it since im lazy as hell. I love fantasizing my **** not writing it

i have the same exact problem. this is why i listen to music so much, i run scenarios in my head over and over. i have probs ran the same 10 sec scenario in my head over and over again for 3 hours.

strong problem when i comes to doing school work or concentrating at all

I understand you 100 percent man.. I do the same exact ****, the same exact ****.

i get lost in my own little fantasy world sometimes, do i have this? lulz

maybe, I dunno dot jpeg

[Red_Dragon]

I do that sometimes but only a few minutes lol. Sometimes I daydream about creating a movie and I have all these vivid scenes of what my movie will be like. Sometimes I just have fake conversations like you said.


Have you tried meditating. It can help build mental focus and discipline and help you live more in the now instead of the future or past.