How do I control my daydreaming

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Learning to cultivate a more healthy relationship with daydreaming is really a life-long process. Just understanding that your daydreaming has become a problem and that its interfering with the things that you want or need to do in real life is the first step. Despite the fact that I only truly started thinking about my daydreaming as a problem probably less than 6 months ago, I've already made some great progress. As people have mentioned, mindfulness can help because it teaches you to live in the present moment--after all, you can't be daydreaming if you're living in the present. Writing down each thing you do in a day (something like 9:00am-9:30am morning routine, etc.) can help you understand and face how you're spending your time. This isn't a schedule, its not something you write out the day before, its literally just a chart where you record what you're doing during the day and the amount of time you spend on it. I did that a few times back in October, I think, and it really helped me get a grasp on not only how much time I was spending daydreaming, but how much more I was able to get done on the days where I didn't spend hours daydreaming (not even days without daydreaming, just days with less). 


Additionally, I don't know if you've seen it, but a few days ago I made a post where I linked a Word document template that I created for recording your daydreaming sessions. Its part of habit reversal training, which I think would be greatly beneficial to maladaptive daydreamers. Check it out if you'd like.