What is the definition of your own world?

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Is it like having a dream? If you cannot visualize do you not have a world or do you just have it In a different way?

My definition of my own world is my perception of the world and my own fantasies. I think everyone has their own world. I don't consider it autism related.

I've always interpreted that phrase as meaning the "filter" we squeeze experience and reality through. As in speaking of a crazy cat lady, people would say "augh, she's off in her own world." Common expression when speaking of eccentrics and crackpots. To me it just means that someone has surrounded themselves with a certain type of lifestyle. In the movie "Conspiracy Theory" the main character was off in his own world, but that didn't make it a make believe world, he was aware of things most people aren't.

[Reading from a dictionary] "P-O-O-K-A. Pooka. From old Celtic mythology, a fairy spirit in animal form, always very large. The pooka appears here and there, now and then, to this one and that one. A benign but mischievous creature. Very fond of rumpots, crackpots, and how are you, Mr. Wilson?" [Inverts and shakes the dictionary] "How are you, Mr. Wilson?" Who in the encyclopedia wants to know?

My own world is not like a dream world or a made up fantasy world.
It is like zoning out thinking about and analyzing things.
This is what I always thought of as daydreaming.
I call it my own world because I am not engaged with the real world while I am inside my head, other than perhaps staring at interesting pictures and patterns while I am zoned out thinking and analyzing.

I just interpret it as being absorbed into your own thoughts.

This is what I think people usually mean when they describe people as being in their" own little world". It was interesting in my case that people would describe me that way because I was not engaged, not interacting or responding to my name ect. when really I was in my own fantasy world a lot of that time! My special interest was my fantasy world in elementary and middle school and for a while in high school. My fantasy world was basically just playing back scenes from the novel series' I loved, like the Babysitter's club, in my head and pretending to be one of the characters. I remember hearing people tell my mum that I was in my own little world and I thought they knew about my BSC world.

*Actually, my preschool teacher apparently told my mum that I was in my own little world too and I didn't have my imaginary world at that age so I guess I was always just spacey and disengaged, fantasy world or no fantasy world.

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I have two worlds which comprise my reality.

There is the world in my head that I can control.

There is the real world that I interact and work in, which I try every day to manage, just barely, so that it doesn't hurt me and I don't fall apart.

Wp is now a good part my world now along with everything else

Me too. I'm getting addicted to it again.

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It's part of my world too.

Yes, I like this world. I feel very comfortable and safe here.

I think being "lost in your own world", is to be stuck believing your own peceptions of the world. Whereas others view the same event very differently to your own. Thus, you are unable to see the world as they do, or as it is, or whatever. You are stuck (locked in) to seeing the world as you do.

This is the generic "you", not you specificaly.

It also comes with a set of "rose coloured glasses".

Hi, Greg. Do you like my new avatar?

It is a world within a world.

Don't believe I have one or is unaware of it. I have learned several views on this site.

When people say "she's off in her own world", I interpret it as "She is not fixating on me like I think she should! Pay attention to me! Me me MEEEE!! !".