Are you literally in your own little world?

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I tend to daydream or space out when I'm bored or stressed, but I don't consider it my own little world. Does anyone here actually have their own little world or is it just an NT interpretation of spacing out?

It is mostly a NT saying for spacing out, being distracted, daydreaming etc.

But I guess it could be literal if, while daydreaming, you construct a detailed dream.

Personally for me I don't notice that I'm in my own world but it has been pointed out to me by other people that I'm in my own world.

I think it might have something to do with me looking as though I'm not paying attention when in fact I do notice quite a lot of what is going on around me.

I was a 'daydreamer' as a kid in school, and my husband and daughter even now have to 'snap' me out of it sometimes.

Oh yeah, I do this all the friggin time. I actually construct my own little world and kind of retreat into it at times. this can range from romantic interests (fictional people except for me, or someone like me) to something like "What if my Kerbal Space Program career was real and news reporters were reporting on various launches" and stuff.

Breaking me out of these worlds tends to result in backlash at the NT just for not knowing. Its annoying at times and sometimes I have trouble discerning a LW from RL.

Yes, but not a world I construct and not because I'm bored or stressed.
It's just my resting state.
It's my own world because I'm not social and I spend my time in my own head thinking.
Kids called me outer space in grammar school.

No I'm not literally in my own little world. Just metaphorically.

people used to say this about me when i was very young and i guess its still true. i have this world i regularly daydream about, im never involved in the world, the world is just there for me to imagine and observe. These characters are always the 'main characters'

Relatively recent developments in neurological science would suggest that all living organisms exist their own world, in a very literal way. So yes, I do think that I am literally living in my own little world. All interaction with others (who are also in their own worlds) is thus negotiated (usually inadequately, in my case ). An expression in Spanish is "cada cabeza es un mundo", showing that at least one culture has a concept of this reality, predating modern scientific advancements in knowledge of the workings of the mind and brain.

I create a simulation of what I'm thinking of in my 'moments'. It's a fully realized world and all other senses cut off. I can't make it happen. It just happens sometimes. I'm usually thinking of how situations would go and create a sort of 'test chamber' in my mind. Sometimes I'm thinking of stories and other times reviewing a problem or situation to analyze it.

I've been told by people around me that they can tell when I 'go away'. Been poked to get my attention. Real poke, not virtual.

Even had a teacher in the Bahamas throw an eraser at me one day because I was off in my own little world that completely. I was eight, it was the 60s, no worries. It was soft, didn't hurt, but nobody could get my attention any other way.

Sounds a lot like what I experience. Especially that it just happens sometimes. I heard "Earth to [insert my real name here]" a lot while growing up. People still wave a hand in front of me at times, to get my attention. No one pokes me more than once, though, because my automatic reaction to being touched while in this state tends to be startling or (so I've been told) even scary.

It's maddening when it happens while I'm in conversation with someone, because it is interpreted as something other than what it is - they often think I'm offended, or indifferent to what they have to say, or bored, etc. And I'm lucky when they'll tell me how they feel - some people just start avoiding me and I don't know why.

Here's the irony of that for me, when that has happened to me, I am actually grasping part of a problem and giving it my full attention. Solved many problems like that. So, when I am actually trying to be my most helpful, I seem to be the most distant.


Edit:

I just realized that I got called in for work a few years back earlier than normal because I was the most technically advanced on both the software and hardware. So, I came in, the customer was frantic, the owner was frantic. I just sat down and did my work, didn't talk to the owner, so he left. Got the job done. The customer thanked me for coming because the owner was making her frantic and she was thinking the job would not get done.

Then she left, and I got called into the bosses office and was railed against because I didn't show 'proper concern' by way of not being emotional. I had no idea what to say. Just totally stunned me. Yes, I know he was being an a**hat. But, ya know, I just could not respond at all.

People always told me that I'm in my own little world.


I am a big daydreamer. So maybe I really am.

Well, not literally because I'm still physically existing in the real world.

But I do daydream a lot. Mostly about my own cartoons or video games, or my cartoon characters being in a video game, and what they would be like if they were animated instead of just still images on paper. I do most of this daydreaming when I lay down to take a nap or go to bed for the night, since I usually do enough things during the day that keep me distracted from daydreaming. When I was in junior high it was a different story. A psychologist who gave me a bunch of tests back then said I seemed to be in a world of my own, and sometimes didn't even answer the questions. Which is odd, because I remember experiencing quit a bit of interest and enjoyment solving the puzzles and things they gave me, and it was only when math was involved that I had trouble. I was afraid to answer the math problems because I'd make mistakes and be embarrassed.

I also like to daydream while listening to music. It's like having a soundtrack for my imaginary animation. And I know daydreaming is harmless and even healthy as long as you still visit the earth occasionally.

Damn, it's like we're mental twins, or something. My ex, who I believe is also an aspie, is the same way. I had to learn to be patient with him, because sometimes it takes up to a week for him to come back at me with a practical and workable solution to a problem I've ranted about. And, he has had similar issues at work, even though the same people who complain about his demeanor cannot do without his 'idiosyncratic' thinking that gets the sticky, technical, complex problems solved.

I don't think of myself as being in the real world. Lately my own world is more my own than ever. In that it's stories I've tried to write. The one I've stuck with is about gods and magic. Well, they're really all about gods and magic. Which shows where my interests lie.

I mostly think in terms of events or conversations rather than appearances or settings. Like I imagine the characters having conversations or what their past might have been.