Questions. Imagination and escaping into your own world

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I have created character's that are extensions of myself. Some would call it multiple personalities but with mine I'm fully aware of the different character's. Each one has a specific role in my life. My fantasy world is played out in the real world. I started doing this when I was around 10 yrs old. Each one I visualize differently. Each one speaks slightly differently. When I go shopping I bring out the Battle Dog because I plan to be on guard the entire time. When I go to work I have to keep changing them to fit the different scenarios I encounter. Deb the analyzer, Deb the comic, and Deb the laser. Each one represents the suit I have to wear to survive in the NT world. When I'm by myself I'm Deb the researcher.

Hey, I've been looking for this! T's one of the things I haven't been able to figure out about me!

-would you describe it as being "your other world" that you escape to?
Yes. I think we called it stories or something growing up

-Are there people in the world?
Yep

-If there are people, have you developed them to have separate characteristics from yourself?
They are book characters and different from me

-Do you make yourself as a character in the other world?
Never. Can't. Not there.

-What point of view do you see the world? are you seeing it from the characters point of view OR watching over the characters.
Watching over

-If your world does not have people in it, what is in it?
N/A

-Do your worlds follow the same laws of nature/physics etc. as earth?
Sort of. Except my characters have been vampires for like 20 years (same characters)

-How much time do you spend each day in your other world?
Depends on how much time I have. Used to be hours. Now I'm so busy I just partially enter when a certain song comes on

-Does stimming and movement (ex. pacing around the house) help you to get into the other world?
Pacing and walking and listening to music

-If there is more than one character in your world, do you create them to have a wide variety of different personality types?
It's whoever was in the book, I did create a spin off character to be a mate for one of the characters and she is different

-If you have come forward to someone about your world, do they often assume it might be a multiple personality disorder?
Mentioned it to 2 therapists growing up and they just looked at me blankly. Shut up after that.

-If you've told people about it, how do they react?
I told my mom who is a schoolteacher and therapist growing up and basically was made to understand it's not normal so I don't mention it. I used to be staring off into space, especially during a car ride and she would ask if that's what I was doing so she was well aware

-If you have not told anyone about it, why not?
N/a but rest of world might think me crazy

-How long have you been in your other world? years, months?
Long as I can remember

-Do you have more than one other world?
Used to have a different world when I was a child

Feel free to add anything more about your world, or ask me any questions about how I experience mine.

-would you describe it as being "your other world" that you escape to?
I suppose so. See, it seems so real... I don't feel like it's right for me to describe it as "my other world", but more like "another world."
-Are there people in the world?
Yes, there are. However, people only began to colonize this world since when I was around 10. Before then, it was just animals. I was the only human. There are still much more animals living there than people.
-If there are people, have you developed them to have separate characteristics from yourself?
Yes. All of the creatures that I know all have very distinct personalities.
-Do you make yourself as a character in the other world?
Yes. i pretty much have an alternate version of myself that I am in that world. She's a few years older than my age now, but, other than that, she's basically me.
-What point of view do you see the world? are you seeing it from the characters point of view OR watching over the characters.
I see it from my alternate me's eyes. So, I see it from the characters' point of view.
-If your world does not have people in it, what is in it?
There's even a whole part of the town where mainly humanoid lizard-creatures (for lack of a better description) live. All of the creatures are treated equally to humans. In addition to people and lizard-creatures, there are also cats, dragons, and other creatures that aren't found in our human culture. Even though there are people, the majority of the population is other creatures.
-Do your worlds follow the same laws of nature/physics etc. as earth?
Somewhat. You see, in the town center and most of the large town (which I never learned the name of somehow), physics do apply. However, off in the far reaches of the Ruby Desert (a desert far outside town), and in The Darkness (don't go there, you'll probably die), physics no longer apply. Also, you can float around in outer space without any special equipment and nothing different will happen to you.
-How much time do you spend each day in your other world?
As much time as I am awake, and even sometimes when I'm sleeping, as I sometimes dream about it. There's things going on in this world at the same time as what's going on in our world.
-Does stimming and movement (ex. pacing around the house) help you to get into the other world?
No. Movement makes it nothing more than a background event happening in my brain. To really focus on it and delve into this world, I have to remain still.
-If there is more than one character in your world, do you create them to have a wide variety of different personality types?
Yes. And I don't create them. Well, I do... But I really don't want to admit I do, because they just seem too real. Like I just found them as creatures with different personalities.
-If you have come forward to someone about your world, do they often assume it might be a multiple personality disorder?
Yes. Even when I first told my mother about it, she first thought it was that. However, then I described it more in depth, and then she just thought I have a very vivid imagination.
-If you've told people about it, how do they react?
They often react to it like it's just an extension of the imaginary world of a young child. It seems like much more to me though.
-If you have not told anyone about it, why not?
I only tell my best friends and my family members. The reason why is because I feel so weird about having this world.
-How long have you been in your other world? years, months?
Ever since I was extremely young. maybe around 4. When I was 4, it was much less vivid and had much less characters than now. I also was the only human. It mainly took place in this conference room-type thing inside a skyscraper in the downtown area of the city.
-Do you have more than one other world?
Well, there's the world I mainly visit, and there is The Darkness. However, The Darkness is related to the main world and visitable from it, so I guess that I only have one major world.

I used to do something similar to this but I cannot do it anymore. I think it stopped when I got with a long term partner and had kids so it probably stopped because I felt my life was fulfilled. I've tried to do it since then because I remember how much it used to comfort me but I just don't have that imagination anymore

When I did this I was always the main character and it was me but a more exciting and confident me, me the way I wanted to be I would visualise an exciting life where I was successful and good things happened for me. It wasn't just imagination of what I wanted. Things would happen in this alternative life day by day, just like they do in real life. I would escape to this wonderful life every day

-would you describe it as being "your other world" that you escape to?

Yes! I've done this since I was a child. Creating an own world that's only mine and where I can escape from people in this real world. It was such a good feeling and I could spend all day in my own world.

-Are there people in the world?

Yes, but I'm something like the main character and others are just people I get to see in order to my feelings at that moment. Anyway, there are more animals than people living there, most of them are imaginary or mythological.

-If there are people, have you developed them to have separate characteristics from yourself?

More less. They're different from me but have the same principles as I do.

-Do you make yourself as a character in the other world?

I do.

-What point of view do you see the world? are you seeing it from the characters point of view OR watching over the characters.

I'm a character and I can't interact with others too.

-If your world does not have people in it, what is in it?

N/A

-Do your worlds follow the same laws of nature/physics etc. as earth?

Not always. I've always loved magic (because I'm a crazy Potterhead) and sometimes I used to have magic in my worlds, but it didn't happen very often by the way.

-How much time do you spend each day in your other world?

All day! Even when I was at school I could hear the people from these worlds talking inside my head, like they were far away from me, but still hearing what they said.

-Does stimming and movement (ex. pacing around the house) help you to get into the other world?

Since I don't get to 'live in my own world' that often anymore, yes, it helps.

-If there is more than one character in your world, do you create them to have a wide variety of different personality types?

Of course! But I think most of their personality types are adquired from familiars and classmates.

-If you have come forward to someone about your world, do they often assume it might be a multiple personality disorder?

I never did but my parents assumed 'I live in my own world'. I don't really know what they think 'Living in my own world' means, but if I ever tell them, they'll probably think it's a kind of disorder.

-If you've told people about it, how do they react?

I didn't because I'm pretty sure that telling about this will only makes me look weirder than I do now.

-If you have not told anyone about it, why not?

Well, since I don't spend so much time lost in my own world anymore I think it's just a waste of time to tell anyone about something that happend in the past. I'm not sure they will understand, by the way.

-How long have you been in your other world? years, months?

Since I was 4 or 5 years old.

-Do you have more than one other world?

No, it's only one world.