Maladaptive daydreamers of PC, come post here

Well it's not all maladaptive, but it can be.

I daydream a lot too.

But how else do you deal with loneliness and sexual frustration? Or needing to connect intimately with someone? It's not like that will happen in real life, so they're in my imagination. As long as I don't talk to them in public or get them confused with the "real" version, it shouldn't be that big deal...it sounds more like one more way to suppress people's imagination as they become adults. Because apparently having an imagination = being crazy to people who don't have an imagination.

I used to do this all the time when I was younger. I don't really do it anymore. But I've done it on and off my whole life.

Your post made me really sad. I'm sorry you feel that way. There's nothing wrong with having an imagination but if it's a substitute to real life then it perhaps is providing a solution that, while bringing relief, isn't the most healthy.

Everyone has fantasies, but if they're providing an alternative to real relationships then maybe that's not the best thing. I'm not judging you but personally I have accepted that inventing a whole new life in my head, which is what I do, isn't the best way to improve my actual life.

perhaps one difference is that i never engage with real live people i know, or even personalities i see on TV in my daydreams,,,, everyone is "other worldly", in that i will never meet thing IRL. that way i can give them the personalities that i want to,,, whether that is having the characteristics that bother me, or those that i wish i knew about in my real life. mostly i build houses, and i work with the people who are builders too, and financiers and other unknown people, they are great for practicing behaviors with, since they can respond badly and i can abandon them in my daydream...

it is an interesting topic, i know many people disapprove of imagining, but not me,, i take it as a great practice arena.

It's not that I disagree with you...I just don't fit into modern society. And because of my imagination I can write music and write realistic screenplays/plays etc. It's because I can see and live the stories myself.

I don't have a lack of relationships because I fantasize, I fantasize because I have a lack of relationships. It's not like I haven't tried, it's that they accuse me of being creepy or I just can't understand how they think. Where their life philosophy has come from...I would go into detail, but I'm afraid I would sound judgmental and/or offensive, which isn't my intent. I just don't understand the vast majority of mankind.