Comments on: Are you spending too much time in fantasy land? Daydreaming can take you away from your reality and purpose

By: M

Thu, 24 Dec 2020 16:52:10 +0000

I have been diagnosed with ADD so the “distractions” I face with this disorder are always daydreams. I’m a writer and an actor, and I love that feeling of living through a character I’m not (aka day dreaming). It’s gotten to a point where I’m addicted to the high a daydream puts me on. Even when it’s a terrible day dream that I get so dragged into it can make me cry, I still don’t want to stop thinking about it because it cures my boredom and just feels good. (Even though I’m crying… Weird right?) Is there a difference between maladaptive day dreaming and ADD?

By: -noname

-noname — Fri, 06 Nov 2020 17:42:37 +0000

I’ve been daydreaming a lot, and it happens more often since this pandemic when I don’t get a lot of things to do like usual, and not lots of friends around like I usually had at campus. I recognized that my daydreaming has taken my focus on studying and doing things or assignments. I’m zoning out more often now and I even procrastinate doing tasks just for daydreaming. I hope I could understand how to reduce my urge to daydream, or why I do it often in the first place.

By: Lily

Lily — Mon, 29 Jun 2020 09:00:44 +0000

I hats it called when you have a vast daydreaming multiverse but it doesn’t hinder your real life? I just do it in my free time, which I have a decent amount of, but when I have other things to do it’s not really on my mind because I know that’s not the right time to think about it. Mainly over time I’ve taken myself out of my daydreams and created fake characters in a fake world that I can go in and out of at will, so my real life doesn’t trigger it anymore. What triggers it is a good idea, so I don’t watch new movies or tv shows on the regular cause then my brain would want to more. But it seems like I’ve gotten control, and now I’m just having a great time zoning out adding to my story and creating things like a little super power. I don’t think it’s maladaptive, more like innovative. I also have a “blackboard” where I start from scratch on anything I’m trying to solve, then I can solve problems before they happen and not feel a need to worry. Hm… idk