[Marshellette]

Some say bipolar disorder involves brain and nerve synapses firing off too fast or a too large frontal lobe...This may be a disadvantage when trying to calm down but an advantage in the arts and sciences as it allows for quick thinking and synapse connection, said Billy Nye the science guy....And a certain inventiveness and mystique.
So today I was walking in the woods and it was getting dark and overcast and I realized I was walking in the perfect environment for a horror movie. Coincidentally I also had a gash on my forehead from some stitches I had a while back. I had a bandage on to try to cover it up. I didn't intend to set up the scenery for a horror novel, I just planned to go for a walk in the woods, get some excercise. And the woods. What woods. Cavelike, eclipsing. Dark pines and heavy greenery.These are dark and lush and sometimes coyotes howl in them at night. Twilight woods. I like to walk alone or with my dog because I'm shy. So here I was thinking I was alone and this pale boy stepped out of the tree gatherings in the dark and he looked just like Ryan Gosling and he stared at the gash on my forehead and suddenly my doberman lunged at his legs and suddenly I thought maybe I am passing a boy walking home or maybe he is thinking there's a girl that looks like she got axed in the forehead walking through the woods and her dog just lunged at me. But he was very brave and he stared straight ahead at the path and walked away and I realize that I star in my own horror movie every day...Do you imagine yourself in a western in Phoenix? At a Luau in Hawaii? Do you? The old imagination overdrive. Or maybe he just saw this long legged girl in shorts and a dog.

[sui generis]

Lol I'm always coming up with movie ideas and stories in my head and starring in them. I've always done that for as long as I can remember; I hate it though because I end up dissociating. It's worse when I listen to music, so I've actually limited the amount of time that I listen to music or I listen to music that grounds me and helps me feel present (weirdly it's only Lorde I can listen to without escaping into my imagination hah).

[Lobster Hands]

Three or four months ago all I did was imagine things. Stories, movies, worlds, you name it. I don't know why I was doing it. It was just easy, so I did. It isn't harder to do anymore, I just have more things going in I guess.

To answer your original question, yes I do. I can spend hours in my mind.

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[BipolaRNurse]

I've starred in my own TV and movie dramas for as long as I can remember. I also had imaginary triplet sisters when I was in grade school and "we" formed a detective club. I hadn't thought of that in years......it was just another way of being strange, was all I knew at the time. I've never told anybody about that until now.

[Angry1541]

Heh...interesting thread...I often do this in certian settings...like deer hunting...where I will imagine I am walking the property looking for aliens/looters in a post-apocolyptic world...protecting the family back at the cabin from people/things threatening our live....strangely the deer don't star as the interlopers....

Also, someone mentioned music, I often escape into music....I mean escape. I can close my eyes listening so the Grateful Dead or Pink Floyd (and such bands) and just float away on that sound....and it really feels like floating away (most of the time) the music just takes complete control... Which at times is nice....at others a hinderance.