Excessive Daydreaming and Pacing

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I do this all the time. Though I've had to learn to exercise great control over giving any signs of it, as I have been called insane more than once, so when there are people around, I can only tap my feet or flap my hands, unless there's a rocking chair and I can rock, or in a playground where I can swing or something. When I'm alone, I can pace, talk, whatever. Sometimes I do fantasize about hurting the people who have hurt or rejected me. I also daydream about the way different social situations would go.

I do this. I am always mentally gone. far, far away.

OMG, that sounds so much like me!!

I spend most of my life within my own head, and M_p_furo, I think you got it right (at least for me). It's like practicing to be a part of this world that I'm expected to be a part of and understand because I appear "normal". I had a conversation the other day with a young man who was autistic (moreso than me) and my friend watched the entire conversation and said that he didn't understand a word of it. The conversation I had with that young man was the most natural one I had all day.

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I do daydream a lot as well, mainly thinking about how I will design my future apartment/home, and what car I would like.

That's refreshing that there is someone who can understand what I'm talking about. Despite practicing these scenarios in my head, I still feel very drained after I actually do socialize.

Your conversation sounds nice.

There is not a moment in my life where I am not engaged in some sort of autistic behavior such as pacing. I've also never had both feet out of the realm of daydream for more than ten minutes in my life. Being out of a daydreams makes me very uncomfortable, because of all the lights and junk that are so over stimulating. I fall down a lot, so people call me absentminded.

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I daydream sometimes. I used to do it more when I was younger. I definitely will act out situations and try to figure out what I could have done better. I don't even know I'm doing it sometimes and it's embarrassing when I'm talking to someone who's not there and someone "catches me." I'll even act out situations that I may have or would like to have in the future and think of what I might say to a particular person.

i live in my dream world, and only emerge to do errands. i rock back and forth to comfort myself. i wring my hands a lot. i pace when i am agitated, but i hate being that way so i try to push agitating thoughts out of my head by replacing them with other thoughts- the key here is that most folk can only hold one thought at a time in their consciousness- so if one is tormented by a bad thought, it is best to shove it out of the way using a new thought. i have been known to slap myself to distract myself out of a negative perseveration.
sometimes i mysteriously start moving about like the old monty python "ministry of funny walks" skits. sometimes i grunt and squeak. i adopt odd postures in an attempt to suppress tics or get relief from numerous muscle spasms and clicking joints.
i used to swim miles per day in an attempt to make myself too tired to act crazy [until arthritis set in]. it worked while it lasted. i have the feeling that my throat never clears completely so i bark like a dog in a vain attempt to fix this.
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When God gave out brains, I thought he said trains,
and I missed mine
When God gave out looks, I thought he said books,
and I didn't want any
When God gave out noses, I thought he said roses,
and I asked for a red one
When God gave out legs, I thought he said kegs,
and I asked for two fat ones
When God gave out ears, I thought he said beers,
and I asked for two long ones
When God gave out chins, I thought he said gins,
and I asked for a double
When God gave out heads, I thought he said beds,
and I asked for a soft one
God, I am a mess!

Exactly the same here. My daydreams are also often about what I want to do in the future, or what I plan to do. Such things actually very often help me come up with new ideas

my brother used to annoy the heck out of me as he paces a lot...(is more severe than me)
I am defiantly lost in my thoughts a lot...always analysing...even analysing my analysing!
I imagine my life as some sort of existential novel or a film...i'll listen to music as I'm outside almost to give myself a soundtrack...so i do tend to be lost in this safe wee world I've built.

Dude I totaly feel your pain i had no idea there was a place like this, i thought i was the only one who would daydream about the things i do. I have this overwhelming compulsive urge to daydream, and daydream about everything and alot is anger and revenge, it drives me crazy cause i dont want to be a bad person or do anything crazy that i know i will regret. Its like my mind is a addicted to thinking and dwelling on negative thoughts. I'm looking into geting some help for my daydreaming its adhd inattentative is what it is. I've taking a medication for it called straterra and it did seem to work but i quit taking so i went back to my daydreaming habit. I've been daydreaming since i was 8 years old and i'm now 27. It has done a lot of damage in my life so i'm seeking help to get it under control. Anyway do you have a myspace or facebook i can keep in touch with you, my page is under the name sevenzero007 in oklahoma later

i dont daydream i just pace its often that im in middle of writing someting then i just stop and pace good 10mins and after that having to think again what i was doing before it

hello there, i have no idea whose post you are responding-to, but if i can be of help somehow, consider me a friend.

it is obvious you are nowhere near being a bad person, because you are worrying about it in the first place- that is the sign you are on the right track even if you are treading water [mixed metaphors, i know;+) ]. by all means if you have access to mental health services, take advantage of them. [my health insurance only pretends to cover mental health so i just stew in my own juices]

daydreaming in itself is not a bad thing, it can even be useful. but if you dwell upon anger and hurt in your daydreams, it is harmful. one of the universal laws, is that which you dwell upon amplifies itself, and negative perseverations are many times more powerful than positive ones, they have much more staying power and an ominous rate of growth. please talk some more, there are "listeners."

a psychiatrist [NOT a bad word!] can determine proper meds, as some meds will make one more cross- for me, stimulants such as amphetamines made me hot-tempered more than normal- stratera was benign in that way so maybe you might consider trying it again, as it takes some patience to wait-out the delayed onset [up to a month] of therapeutic effect for this drug. the stratera will definitely help with the inattentive subtype of ADD, it did for me.

I day dream every day. At work I'll be doing something then slip off into fantasy land and when I return, my work is done somehow. I dream of both the beautiful and the terrifying.

I make characters in a pen and paper RPG system (Palladium Books, incidentally, generally Heroes Unlimited, the comic book/anime setting), then play with them in incredibly detailed worlds I populate and run with accurate physics, in my head... all the time.

Usually with really neat swords... or indestructible sticks...

I like swords, and dream of a stick I couldn't break.

I like to do kendo or suburi practice when I get the urge to pace around, usually.