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daydreamer84
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05 Aug 2013, 6:00 pm

IdahoRose wrote:
daydreamer84 wrote:
IdahoRose wrote:
About the fantasizing thing... I like to daydream about my favorite fictional characters in different situations, including hanging out with me and comforting me when I'm sad or lonely. Sometimes I even talk to them. I like to think of these characters as my imaginary friends.


So, you're your real self spending time with imaginary friends from fiction? In mine I am one of the characters from a series and I imagine myself in different situations with the other characters. Sometimes I'm a version of myself as a character in the imaginary world. In the Harry Potter world I'd be a student witch at Hogwarts in Ravenclaw house. If I imagine myself in the Wheel of Time series I'm a newly raised Aes Sedai of the Brown Ajah. I'm usually not the protagonist though and not always friends with the main characters. Often I like the supporting characters better.


Yes, in my daydreams I am always myself. Even as a child I had difficulty creating fantasy alter-egos. The only thing that differs from my real life is that in my imaginary world I am an anime character, because everyone in my world is anime-styled (regardless of whether or not they are in canon).

Rather than imagining myself in different worlds (for example, one day visiting the Phoenix Wright universe and the next day visiting the Trauma Center universe) I instead imagine characters from different series meeting and having relationships with each other in my own original setting (for example, the title character of Phoenix Wright having a romantic relationship with Dr. Derek Stiles from Trauma Center in my fictional world called Aspergeria). In fact, I enjoy playing matchmaker for fictional characters so much that it could probably qualify as a special interest in and of itself.


Cool, you sound really creative. :)