this post is from long years ago but yes, me too. this is the 1st time i see this thread (now year 2016). i always like that when i was young. during my first grade my teacher told my mother if i had a problem and if im lil bit deaf, because sometimes when my teacher calling me i didnt respond bcuz im in a day dreamin.
Hi, I was just wondering if what I do is similar to what you do. When I get bored, or just at random times, when I feel like it, I start playing with my hands, moving them about in with positions, while making loud noises like sound effects at the same time. Funny enough, instead of directly using my ha d's when I was younger, I used to use toy kitchen utensils...mate, they even had names like spatchy, twisty, and spoon. I don't really do it around people Unless I forget where I am xD. In my head, loads of cool stuff is happening though. I don't really move anything but my hands and my mouth c:. My parents say I've done it since I was a baby, and that the doctor just said that it was my way of expressing my imagination. ha, I'm almost 17 and I still do it! Is this similar, like is it that maladaptive daydreaming thing mentioned earlier, cause I don't do full body twitching xD
when im jumping around i dont know what action s and stuff im doing. when im really entertained in a new thought in my imagination i can do it for hours....
i create stories and situations in my mind such as a football match, whilst i am doing this imagining i jump around the room. it is very addictive and i cant stop doing it. ive done it since i can remember. it is partially controlable as when i daydream in class i just have a blank stare. no one knows i do it as it is embarressing. i do it in rooms by myself where no one else is. i need some help...i want to know what is wrong with me.
I kinda have the same thing however if I'm left alone or even god forbid closing MI eyes to sleep I have a what I call nightmare attack witch means u imagine things and voices that aren't there. For example last night when I was trying to fall asleep I felt like thing .... creatures were watching me and got barely 6 hours of sleep . But dreams u haven't had a dream in a while just nightmares.
I have a similar problem. I've always had a strong imagination and I would use it to my advantage a lot. Like whenever I had to do something I didn't particularly enjoy, I would dive head first into my world of imaginations. Recently though I started noticing that whenever I imagine someone or something in my daydreams moving quickly, my head would do a slight jerk in the direction I had been imagining. I didn't think it was a problem and still really don't because it's such a small movement and no one's noticed thus far, but perhaps it could get worse? Has it developed into anything bigger for you?
I have the same problem/gift. I don't know... My world is so realistic while dreamin I'm talking like its real. But actually I am in totally different place than my dreams. I don't think this is good. Because its effecting everything about me! I cannot think realistic. I don't know what to do. I need to have a future. But this thing is so powerful I don't think I'll have a good one. Except by this, amazing ideas, song lyrics, book ideas and everything in my mind is super creative! And by the way, I don't like drawing but i have kind of natural talent. I am not left handed, if it will make a difference. Anyway, just wanted to say.
Well, something similar happens to me. I jump around the table when imagining stuff, and if I'm at school at break I jump everywhere, and I even bumped on kids sometimes. I'm a bit tired of it as it has driven my classmates to bully me constantly, and I'm like: 《It's not something I can control, you know?》It's very annoying.
I DO THE SAME THING MY DUDE YOU ARE NOT ALONE
I DO THE SAME THING MY DUDE YOU ARE NOT ALONE
I'm 49 and have been doing it since I was an infant according to my mother. I had suppressed it and I actually want it back. Facebook page name?
We have the same problem and until now I can't find solution for it and I'm done also searching everything about it. I think theres no way to skip on this but I'm still hoping that someday we can find a solution for it. Onething I did to get out of this is going out to party, going to noisy places and try to engage in dancing and sports.
Im having a problem where I cant stop talking to myself and Im walking back and fourth twitching and sometimes the way people treat me I walk away and when Im alone I think Im some sort of mobster that wants to break someones ******* legs and bury them but then when I come back around these people I act like a little school girl then I go back to my room I talk the situation over with myself not realizing that my wife is watching me do this then I go back to the other room and say what I have to say like a boss not caring about the consequences I really feel like I need help and no one believes me everyone makes me feel like their life is more super gangster and there probally right but the point Im trying to make is you dont have to be a super gangster to whoop some *** even if you lose. In conclusion I cant stop talking to myself and fantasizing all the time sometimes even tho I feel like I have a happy life just me and my wife I feel like I want to be someone not me just anyone more exciting that doesnt get these whack feelings . Idk maybe no one understands but then again people I also imagined and fantasizes this is if we all try to seek help for this then we will only be limiting ourselves to be people that cant qualify for things people with no symptoms qualify for an example I mean by this is I really want to be apart of the militairy but if I tell them I have these issues theyll probally never let me in or something or if I qualified for some sort of disability check I'll probally never be able to go to a good college just because I cant keep my **** intact I dont own a Instagram or face book but I always wanted to do this #tell people go **** the self more often in the nicest disrespectful way that makes you feel king or queen
dude i have the same exact problem. i m currently 14 i was born in august 17 2001. so as a kid i thought that i had no imagination, but looking back i imagined some vivid things and i would always think things that weren't real like monsters or something that wasn't there. when i was 7 i wish i had better friendships so that made me end up straying to conversations to myself. through out the the years i would imagine things and talk to myself and my mom noticed that. that was the time that i would imagine scenarios. when i was 11 i was very isolated and felt like my friends were backstabbing me so i created my own friends out of my own mind. i could talk to this person an do activities with her. but i couldn't imagine her physical form. but i realized my whole life i was always imaging people who were real to be my friends sometimes even mean kids but they were all different in my head than the real world. for some i would want my friendships to be real but i never got there. and there are some cases where in my mind there my best friend but i dont want anything to do with them in the real world. i would imagine real people but with completely different personalities because that is the only thing i cant imagine. this even happens with food. i can taste and smell food. and with people i can see them touch them and if they had perfume i could smell it. im left handed by the way
Hi, so I have the same disorder-like problems. I call it uncontrollable creativity, at random times either during class or a convocation I seem to act out one of the characters movement or phrases. It also effects me during times when I'm trying to sleep my brain begins rushing through all these different scenarios whether I've created it or its from a movie or something.
My solution isn't always helpful for other people with an uncontrollable imagination but it works for me. I write the stories into my computer, I'm not sure how it exactly works and helps me but I guess it just gets it out of my system. If Its night and I don't want to wake anyone up I finish the scenario in my mind and then sleep, it seems to make my mind think it's done and that there's nothing to really think about any more. The only problem is sometimes when I try to just play it through to end the story I accidentally start commentating it out loud which isn't always quite.... It doesn't help I've been watching the walking dead :/
Anyways, If you want, try those tactics out and hopefully it'll help you as much or more than it helps me :) have a good day and I hope I helped
OMG, your like my twin, I'm left handed too,Iv'e drawn since the 4th grade and I'm in 11th now, I love to daydream too and sometime I twitch when I get to deep into my daydream or even when I listen to music, and the beat make me get lost in my head.
It's good to be different, creating an interest in others helps to get a nice balance in being well occupied. Basically I see it as a gift, for instance in working for my father I imagined a perfect office and it this helped perfect us, at the bad times when I was bored the phantasy life became more destructive where I had to defend myself against evil beings. God with / in us can use the imaginations prophetically, where you see things in the spirit (angels, Jesus, revelations, light when you blow on people). Then there is no addictive element, I found setting my spirit in the morning with a scripture made my whole being light, like a golden glow stays your mind on the spirit, which is life and peace. Good spaces to be in and you have complete access to your environment, i.e. good listening skills complementary. Having sexual phantasy may be a desire for intimacy, which in itself is good. Daydreaming is a nuisance because you are setting your gaze not directly before you, it is also too worldly and limited to the things we see with our eyes on television etc, the heavens are much clearer and different where our focus belongs. Hope you can relate to this.
So what's the deference between Maladaptive Daydreamer and CMS?
My 9 yr old son is very social, has not gone thru any trauma and only does it when bored. He says it's usually movies or video games that he makes up they are so vivid that he does move and some sound effects. I didn't see this in any of the post I read - when my son is drawing he will also do the same thing.
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Agreed. About 75% of the people on this thread (who talk about stimming, making sounds, and deep daydreams) sound like they have CMS.
We were worried about our son when he started hand movements and rocking back and forth at age 3. We took videos of him and saw a pediatric neurologist (Dr. Wolff) at Boston Childrens' Hospital. He watched the videos for 2 minutes and interacted with our son for another 2-3 minutes to rule out other causes (e.g. autism). He then spent half an hour counseling us that CMS is benign and that the only concern we should have is about how to deal with others who don't understand what he's up to.
He is six now and seems to be aware that he's stimming but has been left alone by other kids. From what I read, many people view it as their "gift". As for us, we often smile when we see his hands frantically twisting as he really seems to be enjoying himself... and we can tell when he needs to go to bed.
Heya. Pretty sure I have this and would love to join the Facebook group. I have just requested permission to one, not sure if its the same
Heya. Pretty sure I have this and would love to join the Facebook group. I have just requested permission to one, not sure if its the same one
Please join our facebook group!!!!! you are not alone!!!!!!! Search for complex motor stereotypies! Everyone there will help. you all have something called intense imagination with movements.
I know this comment is way past due but your situation seems like you have complex motor stereotypies (CMS) Specifically, intense imagination with movements (IIM)
I have this as well always have since I could remember, my parents to me to see about it they said it was a phase little do they know I'm 19 now and if anything I do it more, some doctors called it a "tick" my hands twitch and I lose sight of the world and enter my own and it is perfect to my liking, my mom would catch me when I was young and would tell me to stop so I'd hide, certain things trigger it music, I often picture myself as the singer of the band or something like that, intense movies as a kid starwars, transformers anything like that, I never played with many toys because I didn't have to, I always built things and was always creative now I make metal art being a welder. Also I'll often get headaches from dreaming so hard. To be honest it's a love hate relationship I love it in a way but also hate it because no one that doesn't have it will ever understand us, just glad I'm not alone.