Do you daydream/fantasize a lot?

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I do it all the time, mostly in the evening/night when I'm alone or in boring or stressful situations. It makes me feel calm and protected to think of my favourite fictional characters and places.

All the time. When I wake up and am getting ready; all through the day at work, even when I'm actively doing things. While eating. While doing chores. While in meetings. While listening to people talk. While at events where someone is giving a talk on something I actually really want to hear about. While I'm trying to fall asleep.

The real question is, when don't I daydream?

Okay, maybe as an addition: What are you all daydreaming about? (Only if you want to talk about it, of course )

For me it's mostly people or stories from games, movies, books.. I take the characters and make up new stories for them... sometimes I imagine I'm with them, having adventures..

Yes - it's pretty much a requirement given the fact that I'm an aspiring author. It tends to switch between my own stories or fanfiction; which I then look to see how I can edit to make a standalone story ;p

Stories can take a wide variety of directions once actually written down - it's interesting to see it develop ;p

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I try sometimes but I can't seem to hold a story in my head long enough to build up a fantasy world, and keep getting stuck on details.

day dreamed a lot in grade school. less and less as life got more interesting.

Story of my life. I'll be living in idealized fantasy worlds until the day I die.

I've spent most of the years of my life in my fantasy world, almost 24/7, literally, it was very maladaptive but very enjoyable. I still have a fantasy world now though I'm not in it all the time. I also have inattentive type ADHD so I'm a very spacey/daydreamy girl.

See my username and stated location. lol.

All the time as a kid but only occasionally now, because I don't have people forcing me to go to bed two hours before I'm tired! It was my way of entertaining myself, and now I have so much more to do.

My fantasies are plentiful but rather boring.

They tend to be about living in different places and what I would like to do there. For example, living in Alaska and going fishing whenever the weather is good. Or building a cabin in some remote part of Canada and being a hermit. Or living on a sailboat in the South Pacific.

What's boring about that? When I imagine it, I have lots of thoughts of adventurous things. Being in the wilds of nature hardly seems dull.

To answer the OP's question, I daydream about music, music and more music, astronomy, nature, my own life, crushes, love, sex, philosophical topics, problems I'm having that need figuring out, things I feel depressed about and how to feel better about them, stuff I have no control over, things I wish I had done or said, how things might be different now if only... etc. I think a lot of it is fairly normal except the way I daydream about music. It's really enthralling and I often have kind of an emotional high over it. The only other unusual thing is that it never seems to end, there's never really a conclusion to the daydreaming.

I used live in fantasy a lot when I was younger. Mostly daydreaming about characters in books or TV, dreaming up new adventures for them or imagining myself into the book.

Me too or sometimes really hyper and excited (happy), actually.

Everything always goes just perfect. Never any drama.

I do sometimes if I get bored walking a familiar route (I dont handle boredom well), its essentially the mental equivalent of watching tv and eating popcorn. My fantasies are usually about doctor who stories, and time passes very quickly.

I daydream when real life is boring or involuntarily at a standstill. There's nothing wrong with wandering in your own mind; especially when what's in your mind is more appealing than what's around your body.