Daydreaming - Blog Posts
Just created a para based on one random guy I saw on a youtube video and he literally has two expressions cause he appears briefly in that mf interview, now I'm desperate for knowing any social media of him so my daydream can be fluid as toxic as it is
DayDreaming REMASTERED From Space to mind now!!, I believe some of you have dreamed about flying at a fantastic speed, running and jumping through big distances, or bend an entire city (one of my next goals!!!), why not?; your imagination can overpass all understanding, you are the one that put limits; rise up, you that you are lonely or sick or disappointed in yourself; believe a new day is coming with big steps, every trial is the beginning of a great gift, YOU GET IT!! DayDreaming REMASTERED Del Espacio a la mente ahora!!, creo que alguno de ustedes han soñado que puede volar a una fantastica velocidad, corriendo o saltando a grandes distancias, o jugando la realidad con una ciudad (una de mis siguientes metas!!!), por qué no?; tu imaginación puede sobrepasar todo entendimiento, tú eres el único que pone límites; levántate, tú que estás solo o enfermo o desanimado en tí mismo; cree que un nuevo día llega con grandes pasos, cada prueba es el comienzo de un gran regalo, TU PUEDES LOGRARLO!! #photoshop #crtv #creative #design #designer #remastered #remastereddesign #photoediting #photoshopbeforeandafter #daydreaming #daydream #surrealphotoshop #instaquote #enter_imagination #crazyedits #manipulationedit #visualambassadors #photomotion #surreal42 (at New York, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/B4VM5z7Jd9j/?igshid=ibeypbwdy5e7
I wanna give up daydreaming so bad. I’ve been doing it for 6 years now and I feel like I’ve missed out on so many things. I would lie and say I felt sick when my parents and siblings wanted to go out and do things just so I could be left by myself so I could pace around my room without being interrupted. When all my friend where having sleepovers I would decline the offers because I wanted to be by myself so I could daydream without the fear of them judging me. I use to throw a tantrum whenever my headphones broke and I could not get new ones right away. I would skip out on band practice just so I could get a few more hour in. I’ve caused myself so much stress because I would rather daydream than do my homework/study. I just graduated high school and I almost missed my graduation because I wanted to stay home and daydream. I use to think it was no big deal that it wasn’t interfering with my life that I was not missing out on anything, but now looking back I realize that I’ve missed out on so many things. I loved that I had the ability to go and pretend to be someone who was popular, confident, selfless...everything that I wanted to be. Even when everyone else my age had stop having imaginary friends. I mean I can’t describe the feeling of daydreaming. I love doing it so much but when I stop at the end of the day and I realized all of the stuff I could have done if I was had not spent all day running around my room (I have to paint my floor every other month because I’ve walked so much the paint has came off). I feel like a complete idiot for wasting my day like that. I am starting college next spring and I’m planning to intern for NASA next summer so I need to stop thinking about my imaginary world and who I am there and focus more on me in this one. But everytime I try to stop i can’t because it’s just to hard. The longest I’ve went without daydreaming was a week and that was because I was stuck in a hotel room with my siblings, but even than I would daydream when I was in the shower, in bed, or the car. I just want to try and stop for good or at least where it stops interfering with my social life.
I was reading Pablo Neruda's Book of Questions at the library the other day, and all I can say is that the whole book made me #shook. Such ingenious observations of him! #poem #poetry #poemsofig #poet #poetryisnotdead #pabloneruda #bookofquestions #postmodern #life #showerthoughts #question #musings #daydreaming
Well, most of the time. No, all the time. 😥 #poem #poetry #poemsofig #poet #poetryisnotdead #originalpoem #lazy #daydreaming #imagination #write #dream
When I read Chess Story by Stefan Zweig and thought it would be actually not so bad to sit in that room all day and have nothing to do and that I definitely wouldn't go insane but find it rather entertaining only then I realized how bad my daydreaming is
“Daydreaming does not enjoy tremendous prestige in our culture, which tends to regard it as unproductive thought. Writers perhaps appreciate its importance better than most, since a fair amount of what they call work consists of little more than daydreaming edited. Yet anyone who reads for pleasure should prize it too, for what is reading a good book but a daydream at second hand? Unlike any other form of thought, daydreaming is its own reward. For regardless of the result (if any), the very process of daydreaming is pleasurable. And, I would guess, is probably a psychological necessity. For isn’t it in our daydreams that we acquire some sense of what we are about? Where we try on futures and practice our voices before committing ourselves to words or deeds? Daydreaming is where we go to cultivate the self, or, more likely, selves, out of the view and earshot of other people.” –Michael Pollan “A Place of My Own”
#warmup #doodle #drawing #art #flow #smile #imagination #daydreaming #nature #create #illustration
Lets be honest: without daydreams life would be more unbearable that it is already.
Who disagrees has not experienced the blissful happiness that you find yourself forced to find on music and loliness.
That sounded sad. But its true.
“I always thought that your eyes were like fertile land; perfect to sow my hopes and my dreams. ”
—Unknown.
I see myself in many things from this list. If I actually am a maladaptive daydreamer, I'm definitely not a severe case, I can mostly function, do my homeworks and chores and other stuff. My life is actually really good and I do have plans and hopes for future. But the daydreaming is always with me, since I was a child. Everywhere, everywhere I go, there it is.
I don't have my own OC's, they are always already existing characters from medias I consume... but I'm worried that I don't have control over it anymore. I feel exhausted at the end of the day from all the daydreaming, my brain hurts. Trigger can be literally anything: a movie, a TV show, books, situations in real life. The conversations with the characters are neverending, and even when I don't daydream, I have this icky feeling that someone is with me. I know they are not real, but I spend so much time in their presence, that it is hard to let them go.
When I'm watching a movie, I have to really focus to not imagine myself in it. I hate it, because it ruins the whole story, every character is suddenly me, I think about them all the time and then I don't even know, what actually happened in the story and what was just my daydream. I watch scenes from movies and random interviews on youtube, and act with them, because I already know them word by word, imagining that it's me whose actually talking. I always loved stories and now I don't know how to consume them normally anymore.
But the thing that is scaring me the most, is that I'm terrified that I will not be able to connect with other people in real life properly. For a couple of months now I feel like I'm losing my friends and they don't even know. I try to act normally, show them that I love them, but I feel weirdly dull inside. I'm so worried that I will not be able to create a meaningful romantic connection (eventho I want it soo badly) because of this yearning for some kind of thrill and passion that only fiction can give me and that I can't get anywhere else.
alright look since people don’t seem to understand why maladaptive daydreaming is a big deal here’s a grand list of some of the reasons why.
first off: yes, you little babies, maladaptive daydreaming is often characterized by:
zoning out
“snapping back” to reality
which is often followed by mild alarm and confusion like “what where am i what am i doing whats going on”
seeking emotional satisfaction in daydreams that you didn’t get from real life
it’s often developed due to childhood isolation, not having a lot of friends, having too much time to yourself as a youngling
yep also those bless-ed long car rides
being deeply comforted by music and/or alone time because it means yay daydreaming time
intricate stories that exist inside vivid imaginary worlds (called paracosms) with their own highly developed “characters” (which are called paras, and i hope you’re taking notes)
constantly looking for an “escape” so you can daydream
repetitive motions to stimulate daydreams such as swinging on a swingset, bouncing up and down, pacing, spinning, etc.
an idealized version of yourself through whose eyes you live out these daydream stories (called parames, like para-me…)
BUT!!!! but but but but but but (and this is the stuff y'all seem to constantly be forgetting/overlooking/not taking seriously) maladaptive daydreaming is also characterized by:
deep and dependent emotional attachments to paras such as intimate friends, lovers, family, and pets that don’t exist
deep guilt due to favoring paras over “real life” (called thisverse) people
a phobia that you will never be able to care about people in thisverse and will therefore be a terrible lover/spouse/parent, etc.
trancelike states where you lose time anywhere between a few minutes to several hours straight without even realizing it until you’ve returned to reality
maladaptive daydreaming steals so. much. time.
withdrawal-like effects if you don’t daydream for a long time (even a day), such as shaking, nausea, agitation, aggression, breakdowns, etc.
you don’t control your daydreams, they do whatever they want to, they are invasive, intrusive, and often unwanted
intense absorption, so when the daydream is exciting you will get an adrenaline rush and your blood gets hot and starts to rush and you sweat and breathe weird and see red and your heart rate goes up. when the daydream is depressing you will cry with real tears and your limbs actually feel heavy
it steals an incredible amount of energy
daydreams are often violent, sexual, and/or disturbing
difficulty focusing, high anxiety
paranoia caused by a feeling that you’re under observation
compulsive behavior (like, “i have to pace right now” even when your feet feel like they’re broken… I’ve often been afraid to look down because i thought i might see blood but i couldn’t stop walking even when it hurt so much that i started crying)
sleeplessness, insomnia, nightmares
suicidal thoughts and tendencies (“maybe if i die, i’ll be with my paras”, “i can’t take it anymore”)
feeling uncomfortable in your body/with your identity (i often have trouble recalling my real name because i’m so used to be my parame’s name, i avoid mirrors because i expect to see my parame’s face and it always catches me off guard)
weight loss or weight gain
appetite loss or appetite gain
dissociation and “out of body” experiences
avoidance and the death of your social life
not being able to feel anything either neg or pos about “real life” things because you’re only concerned with your paracosms
speaking the dialogue out loud or whispering, acting out daydreams
i have seriously been asked if i’m possessed when i got caught daydreaming
it is so painful and so detrimental and it makes our lives difficult, it is not “cute”, it is not “lol relatable”, it is not “creative”, and it is not “fake”
I've not found any yet so here's my shot at one right before October starts!
💭 Daydreamtober 💭
(or really daydream[insertanymonthhere])
Honestly this is just the same as any other art challenge: write, draw, collage, do whatever you please! Skip prompts, mix them, finish late, start early, as you wish! Just have fun and don't overwork yourself 💟
The tags: #daydreamtober #daydreamtober2024
The prompts:
❂ 1 - Home
❂ 2 - New meeting
❂ 3 - Secret
❂ 4 - Feast
❂ 5 - Smoke
❂ 6 -Travel
❂ 7 - Dreams
❂ 8 - Letter
❂ 9 - Chase
❂ 10 - Confession
❂ 11 - Fear
❂ 12 - Monster
❂ 13 - Trap
❂ 14 - Injury
❂ 15 - Family
❂ 16 - Old friend
❂ 17 - Justice
❂ 18 - Hobbies
❂ 19 - Comfort
❂ 20 - Fight
❂ 21 - Rest
❂ 22 - Self-care
❂ 23 - Dating
❂ 24 - Distrust
❂ 25 - Flowers
❂ 26 - Cycle
❂ 27 - Yearning
❂ 28 - Doubt
❂ 29 - Love
❂ 30 - Haunted
❂ 31 - Celebration
Divider by @/cafekitsune