I love learning and I wanted to improve how I store and display that knowledge. I created a world in my mind. I placed all the mental aspects regarding self on a island in the center of my world and wish to create the rest of my world as I learn things about reality.

Any tips and ideas that may help my journey?

Edit: I have no issues imagining things. I have a very basic framework of my world and have no idea where to start creating based off reality.

Share yours if you have ‘em too!

When I imagine things, they're usually extremely vague and don't feel remotely real. Sometimes when I put all of my effort into it and strain myself, I can get a somewhat tangible, yet small and miscolored, image.

Has anyone here started from a point of having a weak imagination and trained to be able to daydream immersively? I feel like being able to have a mental reference would make art drastically easier, and maybe I could actually just think to myself instead of whispering aloud.

A Fun Introductory Interview I created based on my para:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRRvRQZCJtc

Hi all! I decided to share with you guys this post that I made coining a term that I created called alterreality. It is a lifestyle dedicated to believing in your imagination, and turning your imagination into reality. Let me know what yall think :3. https://www.tumblr.com/wonderlightdaydreams/764551381349793793/alterreality-coinig-post-20?source=share

Sometimes when I'm getting myself to sleep and my mind starts to create scenarios completely out of my will, it'll have a very bright light. I feel bothered as if there was an actual light on my face. Recently I also heard a very annoying sound in my head and it made me recoil.

The weird part is having the urge to cover your eyes or ears but knowing it's all imaginary and there's nothing you can do to block the bothering sensation.

Have you ever had a story cross your mind and suddenly you can't seem to forget it until its completed?

A Project, A story, an image, whatever.

I had one idea cross my mind, I started writing it, and felt like I couldn't daydream "normally" until I finished it.

So im a 'beginner' at daydreaming, or i mean ive daydreamt my whole life, but just recently been getting into the community and paracosms and such. So i wanna try to make my daydreams more immersive, but like how is that supposed to feel? Cause like when i try to imagine smth with one of my senses, when its smell and taste and touch it almost feels real, whereas with hearing and sight its more of a simulation im running in my head, like i cant actually hear it. So like how is it supposed to be? Is it like 'real' for you guys, with all five senses? If so can that be learned? And if isnt, how do still become so completely immersed within your daydreams?

I don't believe I have MaDD but I do have a paracosm the only issue is that I can't really develop it. I have come to realize that I might struggle to even daydream (yet it is still a hobby I often engage in.) When I see in comparison to other peoples paracosm mine is kinda lacking a lot. Of course I still have it. I don't know if I am just pushing away imaging more ideas, or procrastinating on creating or adding to my paracosm. It's not something I am hugely bothered by though. It doesn't really upset me that much.

Hi hello! So, I'm someone on the higher end of mental imagery and can often imagine sensations like touch. I visualize as I read my books or fanfic, and will often daydream because I also write fanfic. Daydreaming has been lifelong for me, and it's always been rather vivid. Not quite where I can actually "see" or "feel" it, but closer to that then not.

Recently I've been struggling with misbehaving imagery. It feels like my mind fixates on one thing and struggles to switch, like if a character is dressed and then undresses my brain will struggle between them having fabric on and not, back and forth. It's a conscious thing to try and correct. This is extra fun when I've seen something kinda gross/squicky and my mind fixates on it.

It feels like a tug of war with the visualization process of my minds eye. It's not constant or with everything, but it is quite annoying have to recorrect a visualized sensory input or image over and over.

Extra context, I have struggled with intrusive thoughts/OCD like symptoms in the past. It feels a bit like that, but those are being controlled with medication and are much better now.

Has anyone ever struggled with something like this before? Does this post even make sense?? Help???

Something is wrong and can't figure it out. Maybe it's my fault I killed their emotions, their joy, their adventure. Since I want to chill the pace while daydreaming I feel like I killed my characters energy, emotion, nothing feels real anymore. Real like not real people existence but when I was daydreaming years ago since 2019(2020 couldn't daydream at all and barely get it back in a way) I could feel their anger,happiness, sadness. Now I can't even get that. True I have a lot of problems in my life lately and probably I bring that to the daydream and make their life boring with no life. Why? When I was doing well and do what I love I was inspired to daydream, to detach myself with no guilt. Now life is on hold with a lot anxiety and stress and feel bad to daydream when I do need them. I miss them, I miss the daydream world. I tried to find new things for them but can attach any idea to them. Repeating some scenarios with something different details doesn't work much anymore. I know I still love them, even if they do normal stuff too. I wish I could tell my brain that it's okay to daydream and to be there, to feel the characters emotions, like they exist but in another universe, and to visit them for a bit. I want to go back to daydream and leave the struggle and guilt behind about daydreaming. What can I do?

Hi everyone!

Finally managed to get the second part of the Dracula macrocosm adventure edited and shipped. This is basically an adventure with me and my tulpas and some friends that is set in a macrocosm based of old time Dracula lore. This time, we were Heading Down The Graveyard. But, what's a story without some ghoulish creepy context? If you'd rather read some Drunkard's creepy story set in the same macrocosm, go right ahead!

As always, we're thankful for any comments or questions :D

Mine takes the form of a meme template:

YOU KNOW WHAT? F*CK YOU.

(DUENDES YOUR EVIL CHI)

I don't know why this is, but on rare occasions, my mind will get stuck in this loop where instead of experiencing the daydream in its beautiful, full-sized glory, the setting and characters turn tiny. Like the view just spontaneously gets smaller. Really really small.

You know that image of Ed from Ed, Edd & Eddy, when he is pressing his face against a tiny tv screen? That's how it is. It's awful. And any time I try to expand the view, it just gets even smaller and it's all that I can think about.

My eyes are closed! My "vision" is in my head and imaginary, and yet this is happening?! I hate it! There is no cure, save to forget about it. ;_;

Anyone else got any stupid pet peeves or "glitches"? Are all the people inexplicably wearing a pink hat? Are they underwater despite not being in an underwater setting?

Have you ever found yourself daydreaming about a product before buying it? Do you think it helps you make more deliberate purchases?

I’m curious to hear if daydreaming influences how you approach spending—whether it makes you more patient or gives you time to reflect before making a purchase. Do you find that imagining yourself using the product helps you avoid impulse buys, or does it make you more likely to go ahead with the purchase?

Would love to hear your thoughts and personal experiences! :)

Are there sites/apps that simulate text message exchanges, but with fictional characters writing them... You write as these characters, but look like a real life messages? I was just thinking about this, writing messages as two of my daydream characters?:) Or with an AI character texting back... :)

Definitely not using this to fuel my own daydreams or anything.

My main daydream world is a medieval world where instead of humans it's small animals like rats and mice.

The character I "play as" is a mouse who has pet spiders. Spiders are viewed like how people view rats in this world, they are also very dangerous so at least my world has an excuse for hating on rats.

Anyways my mouse, Fatale, has some pet spiders and my favorite prompt is Fatale finding some magical artifacts that can make her spiders intelligent and be able to speak and then they find out what royalty is and declare her queen. I just am really liking the spider queen daydreams right now.

My world is based of of the game ghost of a tale that I've been daydreaming about for 6+ years now. Wonderful game if you like games with very good stories and a detailed worlbuilding you should check it out.

So what are yours? Don't worry I definitely won't steal them like the kleptomaniac Fatale is.

I understand it’s a worry some people have, but good God y’all it’s so tiring to be constantly pelted with posts of people debating at what point imagination is bad for you with 1) no empirical data, 2) no qualifications and 3) misused therapy speech. Not to mention maladaptive daydreaming is NOT a recognized mental disorder, you can’t be “diagnosed” with it, there are no clear-cut symptoms or healing processes.

A simple Google search will show you hundreds of websites that plainly tell you it’s a loose term for daydreaming that negatively impacts your ability to complete tasks. And even then, that’s not a terminal illness 😭 There’s nothing so terribly wrong with you if you daydream too much when doing a school or work assignment, this happens to everyone and is easily solved with some discipline and focus techniques. What is concerning is the need to pathologize normal human behavior and see the world in black-and-white “mental illness” or “not mental illness,” “healthy” or “unhealthy” behavior.

This sub is supposed to be for people who enjoy immersive daydreams and want to talk about their own lil cinematic universes and engage with others. The Maladaptive Daydreaming sub exists on its own and has significantly more members than this one.

I beg, use Google and the search function on Reddit first. Especially for other people on this sub who have anxiety and seeing y’all’s repetitive anxious ramblings about something we like makes us anxious in turn for no reason.

my whole free time is pure daydreaming

i creat scenarios and then extend it in something like cinematic universe that i may "live" for years in the the dream and days and months in the real life

i know my life have gotten rough unlike my previous expectations, and i knew my daydreaming is pure defense mechanism i still think it's healthy but to which extent it stays healthy?

ok, hear me out.

i have this thing where i double-check every thought i have, checking the train of thoughts it came from, linking them to certain parts of the mind, memory, instinct......

AND, like most of you, i can imagine things very vividly and powerfully.

i have also read up on basic human phycology, whitch leads me to my idea:

can i completely reorganize my brain? or, well, mind. i probably wont touch motor function. BUT.

memory conects to basic processing, whitch conects to motor function, whitch... you get it. and i can imagine it all as.... screens. like, holograms, all connected with lil blue glowing lines.

and i recently figured out that i can just, like.... turn off sections of my head. by unplugging the lines. i dunno, it might be placebo, but i think that i might be able to turn my head into some sort of elderitch abomination, the idea-spawner, or just like. make myself really dumb. i dunno.

im posting this here incase shit goes sideways and i either give myself a suizure or acend to a higher state of being and evaporate. will update if sucsessfull.

update: so turns out its like, really bumfukerry-hard to mold an entirly new brain while you're useing said brain. i did, however, figure out how to turn myself into something like a phycopath at will, with an estimated 15% intelligence increase. will continue experementation.

I used to daydream alll the time. I had an elaborate plot that was built up since elementary school. (I’m in college now) I featured various fandoms including assassin’s creed and infamous. however one day I decided to use ai to talk to charater and since then I’ve noticed my daydreams aren’t as vivid as before. I really wish I could get back to them as they were a huge help in coping with depression.

Any tips appreciated

I posted a way too long of a version on the other sub and didn’t read the description they provided before I posted 💀 but here’s a shorter version. I would say I have MaDD but it doesn’t effect my life badly (I think) I qualify for their description well. I pace, feel a bit sad when i don’t get to daydream, enhanced by music, ect.

I just discovered that im not the only one who does this and I was feeling crazy for a long time and very ashamed. I have generalized and social anxiety from bullying my whole life, started pacing one random day in 2020, things got really bad for me in 2021-2023(better but things are going a bit backwards) and I think I’ve collected a bit of trauma since then which Is why I was led to believe I’m on the worse end of daydreaming…

But also I don’t daydream, as in I don’t zone out of anything. I just kinda think it…? Yknow? Like I’m aware of my surrounds and I’m not zoned out or anything, just thinking. If it helps, my mom has ADD so I don’t doubt that I’m a little different 😅

I’m not the best socially either.. aggressive at home, passive everywhere else (I can’t find a way to stand up for myself) struggled alot with apathy.(did therapy so I’m better now but it made my anxiety worse cause I’m now I’m worried more abt my bullies feelings and how I’d look if I reacted 😭)