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Post by PrinceKristian on Dec 16, 2018 2:23:03 GMT
Since I was in middle school I've had imaginary friends (well, technically pre-existing fictional characters I made into imaginary friends) who I've talked to almost the entire day every day. The numbers of people in my "chat room" have varied, some appearing only once and others being almost constant (my "regulars"), and I also present my random thoughts as faceless "askers" who I have conversations with. I'm existing in and interacting with the physical world still though, except for when I sometimes zone out. I've grown close to one of these characters in particular and was able to convince myself that they and the other people in the "chat room" were actually real for about a year. Confronting the truth resulted in my breaking down crying. Does this fall under the category of maladaptive daydreaming, or something else, due to my mostly existing physically while interacting with these characters? (I do display "traditional" maladaptive daydreaming behaviours as well, but I'm curious as to if this is a part of it as well.)
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Post by someone on Dec 17, 2019 2:47:55 GMT
I've gotten this way in fifth grade. I even wrote the names of the imaginary friends in my planner and their fake numbers. I also had imaginary friends when I was younger. I often would play pretending they were there with me in the real world. I never convinced myself they were real, but sometimes I felt they must be real somewhere in the world, or at least someone like this. I have trouble doing that now because I guess daydreaming lacks a lot of interest for me unless it's in the future because if it's the future my brain thinks of it as a possibility. I sometimes try to imagine someone with me to get through things like homework, but it's so much harder now then when I was young. That kind of daydream just can't keep my attention anymore.
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Post by granger on Dec 18, 2019 7:04:55 GMT
Since I was in middle school I've had imaginary friends (well, technically pre-existing fictional characters I made into imaginary friends) who I've talked to almost the entire day every day. The numbers of people in my "chat room" have varied, some appearing only once and others being almost constant (my "regulars"), and I also present my random thoughts as faceless "askers" who I have conversations with. I'm existing in and interacting with the physical world still though, except for when I sometimes zone out. I've grown close to one of these characters in particular and was able to convince myself that they and the other people in the "chat room" were actually real for about a year. Confronting the truth resulted in my breaking down crying. Does this fall under the category of maladaptive daydreaming, or something else, due to my mostly existing physically while interacting with these characters? (I do display "traditional" maladaptive daydreaming behaviours as well, but I'm curious as to if this is a part of it as well.) Imaginary friends, conversing with them, having a close bond with them are all things that MDers do . But you convinced yourself that they are real, well MDers are quite aware that the characters are just in their head. I would be very interested in hearing more about how you interacted with them when you thought they were real, did you feel like creating their lines too or did they spoke for themselves. And how you finally realised that they were not real. |
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