Anyone else get lost in their own world and...

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Same here...I do go into my own world and daydream. Once it was in a group setting and the parts director was going on about something to the parts managers that didn't apply to me....my mind wandered away really fast. Luckily when he switched to a topic related to shipping I was able to "come back down to earth". Maybe when I daydream, my facial expression makes me look bored because he apologized for being boring LOL. I said no worries- the last thing I wanted to say was that I was in my own little world daydreaming.

Other times, I would be putting parts away, and my mind would be elsewhere besides the warehouse. I daydream when I'm calm too.

My parents would critique me for humming at the dinner table when I was daydreaming there.

Well, a lot of people around me talked to themselves. I didn't think it was odd that I talked to myself. They said the way I did it was a very bad sign because they only got to hear one side of the conversation as I paused and listened to an inner voice and responded to it.... Sometimes I will be thinking hard on something and will say a word or even repeat the same word a couple of times out load. I may be thinking in my head but often my expressions have people asking questions if I am thinking of something that made me upset. I catch myself leaving an empty room deep in thought, my lips moving and my expressions changing and worry someone saw that. Usually I am replaying interactions I had wondering if I could have done better or if I made mistakes or I should have done, said something differently. Or just trying to figure out how the whole thing actually went. My daughter likes to shut the door and hack and slash and tell her stories out loud and act them out blow by blow. Its fun to watch, but she is very private about it unless she writes the story down. Then she wants you to read it. Her form is getting better. For a long time her structure wasn't there. It was one long action scene.

I can definitely identify with the OP. I have to be careful when it starts happening in public . Maladaptive daydreaming. in a way it is adaptive too.