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Post by littlebelle on Jun 15, 2022 3:15:27 GMT
Hi I’m Bekah I’m 27 years old and I day dream all the time. I always did it for as long as I remember. In middle and high school I would love being on the school bus because that was my day dream time and would go to bed at 8 to lay in bed and day dream for a couple of hours. Now my work commute is 45 each way and I find myself  for the ride because I can day dream the whole time. I usually find myself looking for the perfect songs to go along with the day dream. I use to think it was something that I would out grow as an adult but here I am almost 28 and it’s just as bad… if not worse. It’s like a whole other life I’m living but it does change up. I often feel lonely in my real life.. I just have a hard time making and keeping serious friendships and now I feel like I self sabotage them because as long as I have my day dreams I feel okay and then I don’t have to actually go out since I’m a homebody. I feel so much relief knowing I’m not alone in this and that even though it’s not “normal” I’m not the only person doing this…
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Post by piphirho on Feb 23, 2023 11:26:06 GMT
Well, some good news and some bad news. The bad news is that I am 66 years old and I never "outgrew" it. I do it less that I did when I was 27, which was less that when I was 17, which was maybe a little less than when I was 7. The good news is that although I never stopped I eventually learned to integrate it better into my life. It sounds to me like you are well on your way to doing the same. That's the good news. It doesn't have to run your life. The trick is not to do away with the daydreaming, the trick is to remove the "maladaptive" part.
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