Hello PsychSearcher0, welcome to Psych Central.

It does not sound that strange to me. As a child you found a way to find comfort through doing something where you could escape to a fantasy world. As a child I would dissociate due to abuse that was going on at the time and that was my way of escaping. It was a useful tool to cope with what was happening.

As an adult I no longer need to dissociate and escape but because I learnt that trick as a child it is difficult to control. It sounds like your escaping/fantasy is similar. Incidently OCD is also a way of coping that gets out of hand.

Please see your doctor and let them know about this ability you have and if it is troublesome they can refer you for therapy/treatment.