maladaptive daydreaming

This is apparently what I've been doing a lot since junior high school. I just discovered what it's called recently but only got around to writing about it now. I always just thought that it was a severe case of daydreaming but evidently it's actually called maladaptive. It's also one of the major causes of the crying occurrences that I talked about in a previous blog.

It's just so interesting to me that our brains could take you one step further into daydreaming and make you feel like you're actually there. Sometimes, I'd be staring at our sofa and see an open field. Or I'm walking around the living room or my bedroom but in my head, I'm running through the woods. The illusion is relatively easy to break but it has a considerable strength to it.

This has also been helping me write stories and prompts. So, it's pretty stimulating if you're a writer or just generally imaginative. Sometimes it's fun but I do recommend trying to be completely aware of what you're doing. Because there were times that it was hard to drag myself out of the mindset I put my daydream counterpart in, so just be careful with that.

Overall, it's a pretty interesting phenomena that I'd like to study more seriously in the future since I think it's related to my course.