Is it common for other aspies to daydream and fantasize?

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Kuraudo: What does music look like to you?

^It depends on the music. The sound of string instruments typically look like rolling waves of water or something similar. Drums are like the pounding rhythm of the earth, all green and brownish.

From my daydreaming and dreams come my best ideas and so writing. Or it makes me feel better, dreaming about what could be, or what I need. It's just normal.

^ Back when I used to write stories, I too found was very inspired by daydreams and dreams.

I catch myself daydreaming a lot.

I daydream and fantasize a lot, too, often about fictional characters.

I daydream a lot, I have conversations in my head with people or fantasize about the way conversations should have gone. I make up stories in my head to music and sometimes just think on what to say to people. I make up stories in my head and move them along similar to a tv show and often times I echo the characters problems to my own. I have lucid dreams and sometimes question what is real when dreaming but not when awake. I guess I am a real nut job but from what I gather from this thread, its kinda normal.

I fictionize about my characters in the book series I've been writing if I'm in the right environment, which is typically just outside of my house and being out in the community. A lot of my ideas come from fanfiction and stories I've read, so it's common in my opinion.

You have nothing to worry about man, it's normal. I daydream all the time and sometime it can get intense. I will admit though that I was also starting to get worried my self a year or two ago but not because I thought I had NPD. Just because I was in my 20's and still daydreamed a lot as well as still watched cartoons and anime. I thought I needed to grow up and stop daydreaming and actually start watching normal television show like the rest of my friends and other adults were doing (I've been criticized a lot for watching cartoons and daydreaming a lot). I tried it and it sucked and then something happened. Found out I was an Aspie this past Christmas and learned its normal for us to daydream and fantasized a lot so I no longer felt guilty and I went back to my old and favorite habit - daydreaming about far out places and being different characters! I love it!

I daydream all the time, so much so that unintentionally mouth the little conversations going on in my head... makes me look like a right numpty!!

I also have that time between dreaming and waking, where you cant tell which is which, pretty much everyday. It can be awesome sometimes, but it wastes a lot of my time.
If only life was as simple as world inside my mind!!

There are times when I *always* have some daydream/fantasy/alternate reality running in my head. It keeps the parts of my brain busy that would otherwise get trapped fixating on something or melting down over something stupid. Otherwise I have to have problem solving tasks to keep it busy.

Often when I have to be around too many other people whose actions and thoughts don't make the most sense to me, I'll constantly have little...extrapolations, that build off what they just said or did, or some other little token. Almost always, they quickly get taken to some ridiculous, silly extreme and then I have to start a new one. Luckily, my spouse (likely also autistic) totally gets this & we've been making up microdialogs & stories for other people without their knowledge for...going on a quarter century now. We didn't realize just *how* much we did it until our oldest child, an aspie, kept getting really frustrated because clearly what we were saying did not match reality.

I tend to space out and procrastinate to the point of not accomplishing what I want to in a day, which in turn makes me annoyed. I've been getting better by cutting out crap from my life that I don't like.

^That sounds like a good idea to me. I wonder how I could accomplish the same...