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Daydreams
Oct 24, 2020 9:43:36 GMT
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Post by angynj on Oct 24, 2020 9:43:36 GMT
Hi I'm new here and I've been daydreaming excessively for most of my life and I feel it has become an obsession. If anyone would provide me with ways to reduce the duration I spend daydreaming it will be highly appreciated
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Post by katie on Nov 13, 2020 23:06:27 GMT
Hi I'm new here and I've been daydreaming excessively for most of my life and I feel it has become an obsession. If anyone would provide me with ways to reduce the duration I spend daydreaming it will be highly appreciated Sorry no one has replied to you yet. For me mine is to see where I am in life to mature or it can be attached to mental health symptoms. I have limited my time gradually to see how my emotional triggers are coping. Have a new thing of trying something new that is good and helps me keep safe when I am reducing the time trying to be more productive. I go for mindful walks and take things little by little so my system does not go into an unsocial place to much.
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Post by moris on Dec 4, 2020 4:09:49 GMT
Reducing listening to music might help. Because when I am listening to music or sleepless at night or I am alone, I tend to daydream alot.
So when ever you are sleepless get out of bed walk around in the house or outside if you can. When walking 1.Try to focus on what you will do tomorrow or what is happening in your life right now or 2.Look around you, what you see your decorations in house or street, if you are outside and suggest what you want to change here. 3.Try to focus on things around you... 4.whenever you are commuting try to focus on where are you going what you will be doing and look around try to remember things you see and try to memorize the path. Pay attention to your surroundings and listen to people around you this might help.
I am alos trying to follow these, its difficult to focus sometimes but it does help.... Hopefully it will help you too
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Post by jadeisjaded on Dec 6, 2020 19:50:45 GMT
Hi I'm new here and I've been daydreaming excessively for most of my life and I feel it has become an obsession. If anyone would provide me with ways to reduce the duration I spend daydreaming it will be highly appreciated I find that if I set aside a certain of my day to daydream I daydream less in parts of my day when I need to pay attention.
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Post by granger on Dec 27, 2020 15:16:06 GMT
when I find myself Mding i remind myself that it feels important to continue this storyline but it really is not and it will probably end in a similar way that my other storylines have ended, that this one is no different and that I will only regret it later. Sometimes this works. Other than this a minute of observing everything around sometimes helps to come back to reality. My plots just feel very important to continue.
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Post by madamebovary on Jan 14, 2021 11:00:47 GMT
These are some good advice!
I want to add that when commuting or going for a walk, I have found that it helps me to listen to podcasts instead of music (music is a sure trigger for me, but also just being alone with my thoughts will often make me daydream). People talking about politics or some of the comedian podcasts where they talk about anything are good, since they are about the real world, but not about me, and not about anything captivating with emotinal drama and vivid storylines. As long as I don't put my daydream self into the podcasts, which will happen sometimes, I am good.
Also, this may be too nerdy for some people, but in recent months I have found that it helps me to try to learn about plants in nature. When I am walking, I have begun noticing all the many different flowers and trees, and I get curious and try to remember the names of the plants, and sometimes other facts about them. This also helps my anxiety, as I will be looking out of the window on the train and debate with my self what plant I am looking at at the station, and if I don't know, what plants it could be related to, and so on. I will then forget for a moment to be self conscious about how I am sitting and what other people are thinking about me. If plants are not your thing, maybe architecture or something else? Cars?
But my best advices to reduce daydreaming is to resist daydreaming in the morning, and practicing to noctice more and more often when you are daydreaming, and then stop. Some days it works better than others.
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