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Post by brendam on Feb 10, 2022 19:31:11 GMT
Hi everyone! I am new here, and love to see this kind of support group and freedom to talk about MD and all of its facets.
I used to be an avid MDer from a very young age until I mostly tried to fully stop when I was 19/20 yrs old. I think stopping this was also because I'd been in therapy for about four years or so, and was really targeting a lot of the experiences throughout my childhood that triggered this kind of escapism. Right now, I would really just love other MDers feedback on a year-long art project I am gearing up to do.
I really think that more people indulge in intense daydreams or MD than we think, and I want to raise awareness of this issue (not to state whether it is "good" or "bad", but really just to get conversations started around it). My project would consist of people who have intense daydreams or MDers sending in anonymous, written descriptions of some of their daydreams and the plotlines/locations of them. I am also really interested in how people believe they look in their daydreams, and how their "ideal selves" are portrayed in the fantasy. I would then create a photo series that loosely replicates these daydreams with prosthetics, locations, costuming, props on a normal looking model/models, evoking the uncanniness of the daydreams and how odd it can be to both live in a fantasy world as well as a real world.
I guess I would love your feedback on whether this is something you guys might be interested in doing (as in, sending me written descriptions of your daydreams with the knowledge of it loosely being replicated in a photograph). I am not officially putting out a call for this kind of thing right now, but am interested if this might be something you'd ever do.
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Post by Sam on Feb 22, 2022 15:37:26 GMT
This sounds interesting! However, it’s important to note that intense daydreams and maladaptive daydreaming are not the same thing. Immersive daydreaming is pretty much the exact same thing as MD; vivid daydreams that you can spend hours on. What differentiates the two is whether those daydreams impact your ability to function the way you want to. Immersive daydreamers don’t have that impairment, or if they do it’s very infrequent or minor. MDers, on the other hand, generally have fairly severe impairments in their ability to function, hence the “maladaptive” term.
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