Hi,
I am curious if anyone else has a parent (or other person they know) who is functioning, but during key or triggering events, retreats into a semi-fantasy world.

I could give specific examples (which do not include hallucinations) but I don't want to write too winded a message.

One broad way to describe this, do you know anyone close to you who seems to literally live on a different planet?

Imagine having a parent or loved-one who is not wealthy, but sees the world through the eyes of blue bloods (think Emily Gilmore, but without the money, for example) or through the eyes of a kid who thinks birthdays and Christmas means the whole world will revolve around them. Who at times you just think "he/she is so far out to lunch and so far removed form what the rest of us experience I simply do not know how to relate to or communicate with him/her"?

Does this ring familiar for anyone else? Happy to get more specific if it helps, but the specifics all look, when viewed through a singular lens, relatively harmless. When put together collectively, they point to a very socially "odd" way of being and experiencing the world.

I can't find much in the way of external resources or help about this. The wikipedia article about "fantasy prone personality" doesn't quite fit the bill.

Thank you