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Anyone else daydream a lot?

I've suffered from anxiety for as long as I can remember.  Since my pre-teens at least.  And I've also done a lot of daydreaming since then too.   I would daydream that I was a different person who was so cool, intelligent and with it.  Even a different gender.  I made up his whole family history and timeline and every night in bed I would act out these different scenerios.  I did this for years!  The same "character" that I made up in different situations - the star football player, the cool musician, the smooth lover, the super competent doctor, etc.  I'm thinking I was basically making up the person I wanted to be.  Just curious to know if anyone else ever daydreams.  I don't do it anymore about that "character".  But I still daydream scenerios as other famous people on a pretty regular basis.  Maybe I just have an over active imagination.  But it's kind of weird to think how long and how detailed I went with it.  
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I day dream about myself in situations.  I usually day dream a little angrier or confident then I would actually handle the situation(like knocking some dude out).  a lot of my day dreams have to do with complex stories........writing's sort of my thing.

when I started getting bad panic attacks my creativity completely left my body especially when the depression came in afterwards.......the anxiety and things kill my creativity.  Now that I'm feeling better It's come back to me.
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I have the same thing and in my daydreams I make myself out to be very intellegent and athletic and the most popular kid in school probuley has something to do with my childhood. It is amazing how many people have this I wonder if there is a name for this.
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my god, I could've written your post!

I do that too! I never asked anyone else about it for fear of being ridiculed for it. If i read a good book series, or a good movie, all I need is a small plot and I can embellish every detail imaginable. Literally like creating a different person. I also create characters that I wish I was like, or have qualities or abilities I wish with all my heart I had. I too have suffered from anxiety since early adolescence and have been "daydreaming" since then really. I even have Lucid dreams about my "daydreaming" as one of the other posters said. Quite interesting. so strange I feel talking about this ... it really is the first time i've ever said it aloud. You totally made my day by reading your post. I really am smiling, lol. feels like i'm not as alone as i perceived ...
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Yes! I daydream, quite often. I daydream stories of myself succeeding and other "important" people seeing me and accepting me. I also dream stories of people I know in my life, what it was like for them to fall in love with their husband or wife and stuff like that. It's so nice to know that other people daydream too. I'm reading all these posts and it's so nice to know I'm not alone.
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Thanks for you comments.  I don't think of myself as being especially creative at all.  I just know that I created this character and now when I look back on it I surmise that I was using him to learn the things that I wanted to be able to do.  I was giving him the qualities that I wish I had.  I suppose it was a way to relieve anxiety, but it still seems very odd to me.  So that's why I wondered if anyone else ever daydreams to this extent.  
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Hello,

I agree with lonewolf07, it's a common habbit during adolesence and ages before that. It just means your bright. Also it is a good way to deal with anxiety, as lonewolf described.

I do that sometimes to, I even end out having Lucid Dreams over it, it's a very pleasurable and addictive activity.

Thanks

- John -
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Have you ever considered writing, acting or doing anything creative.  Just after reading your post it seems to me that you are intelligent and creative - the depth of your daydreams shows that, to me at least.  Daydreaming, as you describe it, sounds like a good way to deal with anxiety.

Just a thought.


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