Most of my life takes place in my head...

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Yes, I live in my imaginary world. I think in words, and all five senses.

I'm also a writer and I spend a lot of time making up complex stories. I know my imaginary characters better than I know anyone irl. I love drawing maps of the settings for my stories.

I do this sometimes too! I love inventing places, as well. Sometimes a fantastical setting; other times just my own city for my characters...

I also realize I spend a lot of time daydreaming about the future, imagining myself moving into my own house in some foreign city, being a published author, whatever.

I can't ever invent people to populate this future world, though. It's all very egocentric, and about what my personality will be like then, etc.

I think in my head all the time and it's pretty much all I do.

1. I don't think I think about one thing mostly actually....a lot of stuff.
2 WORDS almost only words.
3. I have a huge imagination which I love to be in.

me too me too and etc for hour or even day(s)long fantasy/daydream/imagining. addictive. but sometimes, if spend long enough on it can get somewhere new, almost as if i've learned something, ,and sometimes feel refreshed, re-energised by it, tho i discovered that that might have had more to do with not eating anything while lost in other world and consequently having accidentally done a bit of food-allergy-exclusion ! !! !
sometimes watching pedro almodovars films think; he's done this too!! manages to make art out of it!!

Exactly like me and I've seen it mentioned a few times now, maybe it's even specific to ALL people not just people on the spectrum.

Oh good gods yes, I'm the very same way; I include both imagination and dreams in this category.


A large part of my thinking is impressions and other things that can't be described well by language; "video" would be closer to the truth than "pictures". My thinking is highly parallel, which gives me a gift for understanding complex problems, but also causes me to inadvertently over-analyze everything. But as I writer I use words constantly, so I do a lot of thinking in words to; I have several different modes of thinking, and don't necessarily control which I happen to be using at any given time. I often wish I was telepathic so that I could share my raw thoughts with others; something is always lost when they are translated into language.


Yes, lots. Many of them are borrowed from other sources, e.g. Star Wars, Star Trek, Middle Earth, etc. When I borrow I do make them my own. And I also make up my own, particularly in the sci-fi, fantasy, and post-apocalyptic genres. Post-apocalyptic is probably my favourite. I love the notion of most humans going away somehow, and society collapsing, and me [and my three imaginary girlfriends] forging a life in that brave new world. [Er, wait, did I say that "three imaginary girlfriends" part out loud? Damn my broken inner monologue!] Um, in any case, I spend a lot of time in these other worlds; they are very real to me. Hell, I often even turn video games into imaginary worlds; when I played Morrowind a while back, my imagination extended the game in ways that were not actually part of the game; the story and world became richer and deeper because I imagined them so; I do things like that often.


I'm also a writer. Hmmm, several other writers in the thread seem to be in this boat. Maybe it's not an aspie thing, maybe it's a writer thing; or maybe being a writer is an aspie thing, or visa versa.

Good fortune,

- Icarus writes like an aspie and imagines like a writer...

It's interesting that many people here seem to include themselves in their worlds, making up friends or girlfriends. I definitely don't do that at all, I'm always the narrator watching a scene unfold with fictional characters. I wonder why that is.

When I was little I used to go into my imaginary world before bed and meet my favorite characters from books, movies, tv. I'd also have conversations that had happened earlier that day or at some other time of my life over again and it would go better. When I had difficulty with a certain subject or wanted to talk about an interest I'd speak to my internal conceptualization of a person I knew who shared that interest or had knowledge of that subject. Now I don't really connect with characters so much anymore but the other two I still do a lot.

I'm exactly the same as Adrie there, except sometimes I am so creative it scares me. Like one of the main characters in my mythology, he is this insane, possessed, half-ape demon-spawn guy who kills people, and I am always making up stories in my head about him killing people and doing things like that, but I can't have him kill anybody until I justify it for him. He has to come up with a damn convincing reason in his mind why this person should be tortured and die, and I always convince him. It makes me wonder if I am capable of doing this myself.
I like to draw stuff too, I'm not really that good but I just take my time and I've been practicing since I was like 4. This is Dracul, the murderer I was talking about.