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Post by Sam on Feb 9, 2019 22:28:15 GMT
I feel like I've mentioned this before, but reading is a big trigger for my daydreaming. I used to love reading, likely because it was an escape (and fueled my daydreams), but as I've gotten older and more aware of myself, I've grown to almost dread reading. I get this sick, empty feeling every time I think about reading a new book because I know damn well that its going to cause me to daydream (or at least want to daydream, and my urges to daydream are near irresistible). Also because my life is so very different from the lives of the people in the books and even from the life that I want to live. I haven't had the camaraderie you see between characters in a very long time because of my isolation, so reading stories where characters do have that makes me very sad.
I do the goodreads challenge every year and my obsessive competitiveness has me always wanting to read more books than I did the year before, but its starting to feel like I'm reading just to add to my list of books I've read, not because I actually want to read.
Does anyone else have experience dealing with reading as a trigger for your daydreaming? How do you deal with it?
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Post by fishno7 on Feb 10, 2019 8:25:43 GMT
I think I mentioned reading as my trigger somewhere. It is also the biggest trigger for me apart from pacing, but the way of how it works differs for me. I would be obsessed at reading, but instead of reading something new, I repeat to read something old, about the same thick thousand page book for more than 20 times in a month, then switch to another old, long fiction to have the loop begins again.
What I think I am doing is never because of being interested in the story line or its plots, but instead I love to imagine the specific, exciting/romantic scenes to be one of mine; that means, the whole thing is an MD plot gathering procedure :P. The more I read a long fiction, the more details I can imagine to be either extended or combined into my own plot.
For now.... I still don't bother to deal with it yet though. I have yet to get the courage and intention to get rid of MD,
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Post by Sam on Feb 15, 2019 21:31:33 GMT
I finally have Red Queen checked out from the library, which is nice because I've had it on hold since September, but I know that its just going to trigger my daydreaming, so I'm reluctant to read it. Fantasy is one of the worst offenders when it comes to literature triggers because its always so fast-paced and adrenaline-causing. And I've never read any of the books in that series before, which means that if my daydreaming latches on to the universe, that's just one more universe that I'm going to have to deal with my daydreaming obsessing about. On the other hand, my current universes are about spent and having something new to daydream about would be nice, even if it will probably propel me into a daydreaming hole for weeks or months. But I have things to do and no time to spend hours a day daydreaming.
Ugh, whatever, I give up. I'm gonna go put my laundry in the machine and then start reading. I can only read for a few more hours today anyways, as I force myself to stop reading or watching new material at 5pm so that it doesn't prevent me from sleeping.
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Post by Dimmer on Feb 18, 2019 14:25:17 GMT
Reading only trigger me sometimes. The bigger problem I have with reading is it seems to fill a similar... idk... need?... Im not sure that's the right word. It acts like daydreaming. I see the story in my minds eye, as most people do, but I also get really really into it... I can't pick up a book unless I have A LOT of time to devote to it, because I won't move, eat, shower or sleep until the god damn thing is finished. That's the major reason I haven't sat down and read anything in a long while. It does the same thing to me as my MD, but at least I can move around and go places and do things with daydreaming... can't pick up my kid from school with a book in my hand.
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