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Post by icedcoffee on Sept 21, 2019 23:30:45 GMT
Sometimes when my daydreams become too intense they become more like I transport into another world, to the point where I neglect the real world and become depressed when I realize none of my characters are real and I'm stuck like this. I honestly sometimes think it's best if I just cut myself off completely but I'm too scared of life without my fictional husband.
For you folks who are intensely into your MDD in some manner similar to this, how well are you able to visualize your characters or you in that scenario? Mine, ironically enough, is kind of mild and it's more about me retelling the story in my head rather than picturing myself with him.
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Post by alvi on Sept 22, 2019 0:38:57 GMT
For me it depends on a few factors. They're more intense at home or when I'm struggling with things in my real life. When my health is bad I get very tired and can't physically manage a lot so I tend to zone out and immerse myself in my thoughts to escape and just like you I get to the point where I neglect my real life and that adds to the issues I have as I become more depressed when I realise that I haven't done things I need to and that my daydreams aren't real and the things I want in them I can't or won't get to have.
Sometimes they are vivid in imagery but at other times I imagine the story and the conversations in more detail and its when they are like this I catch myself moving my mouth or making gestures with my hands.
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Post by Dimmer on Sept 29, 2019 19:00:20 GMT
Sometimes I just kinda skirt over them a bit, like when I'm only half immersed doing something else. Other times I just go deep and don't even notice or recall that me or my body exist, it's just the story.
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Post by bee on Sept 29, 2019 20:12:38 GMT
Visualize… Interesting. I don’t really visualize my characters. They have a body and all that, but they are more of a shape, more something like a feeling. I can “see” them and if I , for example, concentrate deliberately on a face, my mind brings up an image. But that image can change without any influence on the dreams, it’s not important in any way. The characters are more of a stereotype, the politician, the side-kick, the funny one… I sometimes even forget their names and it’s embarrassing after saving a continent together or something. There are only two exceptions, my “dream-self” and one special person. Another thing I do, and that’s more like the retelling you mentioned icedcoffee, is having interviews. It’s really strange, but I have times where my dd is a string of interviews my characters give to various newspapers, visiting reporters and the like. It can get quite tedious, too, I mean who wants to see the minister for agriculture explaining farming on a planet nobody ever heard of? Certainly not me. But I can’t really control what kind of dream I dream. Sometimes I am able to sneak in a cool adventure for the reporter or something and then I’m back to adventure-mode. :-) And I’m scared, too. I think we all are to a certain extent at certain times. It’s human. |
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Post by dragontooth00 on Sept 29, 2019 23:46:33 GMT
My daydreams are pretty visual, but I can get so into them that I don’t have to watch where I’m walking in my room. Like my mind can see the room and understand where things are so I don’t run into them, but I’m more focused on the world I’ve created. Like I know it takes 6 normal sized steps to cross my room, so I’ve got like a route to go on. I’d say they’re pretty intense physically, emotionally at times too. It depends on what’s going on. Like I could be swinging through buildings or flying and that stuff can tire me out and get out of breath after a while. ^^; othertimes I’ll imagine something  like losing someone and it’ll transition into real life and I’ll have made myself cry, so it gets pretty real sometimes. |
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like losing someone and it’ll transition into real life and I’ll have made myself cry, so it gets pretty real sometimes.