Are you literally in your own little world?

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I recently watched a claymation movie called Shaun the Sheep that had no dialogue besides grunts and other noises.
By the way, are you interested in reading any of my book? It's a fantasy novel, and I'm still working on typing it all out.

Sure See PM.

Yes, it's quite amusing. As you get to a certain amount of posts your 'category' changes.

'Living in your own world' is another NT construct to describe someone who somehow doesn't conform to their 'norms' (which tend to vary from one neurotypical to the next), or who isn't interested in their superficial chat.

Artists, inventors and many scientists of all kinds live in their own world. If they didn't they wouldn't be able to create anything. So actually it's a compliment.

The next time someone 'accuses' you of living in your own world, remind them that Van Gogh, Einstein, Alexander Graham Bell and Steve Jobs (!) did too.

The only time I've ever heard it as a negative was when it interfered with what needed to be done at the moment. Otherwise, I've always worked in environments that promoted that (creative services) until the huge corporatization of a few companies.

One place I worked at always had original art on the walls, little drawings people made. Then, the big boys took over and it just dried up. Only corporate approved art on office walls, etc. Really sucked the fun out of the place. It also became the place that if you were sitting at your desk, off in your little world, you would get dunned for 'not keeping busy'. Confounds me though. That's when I did my best work, zoned out.

Yes, in many ways one could say that a part of me is one coffee break while the other part is taking care of other diplomatic & strategic tasks as such. Honestly, I don't mind it cause at least, I'm not schizophrenic as, I'm aware of the world around me and I'm capable of interacting with it but, not very good at such though.

Pretty much. I'm always lost in thought or day dreaming...

I used to pretend to live in the world of my stuffed animals and have an imaginary friend when I was a kid.

I do this a lot too. I have a couple of different imaginary worlds that I visit, one in which I'm involved directly, and the other which I just observe, which is full of cartoon characters, and runs like a story in my head. I like using music as a backing track too, and if the artists' voices match up well enough, I can see specific characters actually singing the songs I'm listening to. I've been told I live in my own little world a lot, part of it is probably that I spend so much time in my room and don't come down to socialise too often.

Yep. I tune everything out, if it's peaceful and quiet enough. A couple of hours can pass by very quickly. My mind goes over a lot of things.

i would not call it a "little" world.
my world is full of things that fascinate me.
other people seem to be blaze about ideas that i can consider for hours.

things that fascinate me are processes and scales.
..processes from theoretical origins fundamental to every simple thing i see, and scales of size with respect mainly to orders of magnitude.

some of the sings i see are truly awe inspiring, meaning that they instill fear in me due to the sudden realization of the immensity of reality and the scale to which i am a participant in it.
but most people do not muse for any length of time on a static concept because they believe that they have gauged it after their initial notions, and they are impelled to move on to spice their minds with "variety".

but i am used to the reality of other peoples interest profiles, and i also feel clouded by their intrusion into my world with suggestions and attempts to fit in to it, so i am in my own world, but it is as big as the real world because it is part of the real world, and has access to every aspect of it

Perhaps you should think about being a screenwriter, if you haven't already considered it already. What you described is my idea type of film. It's not that I think films have to be totally free of dialogue, just not be too dialogue heavy. I don't like it when the characters spend too much time on exposition instead of just showing it. After all, film is a visual medium but nowadays a lot of films are just shots of talking heads. That sort of story is better suited for a novel but it gets into films.

I find it especially satisfying in film when they quickly and subtly show something unknown the characters, rather than having the characters point it out in dialogue, which requires at least one of them to know about it. After all, in a story, a plot point may be the hero doesn't yet know all the facts or doesn't yet know of the villain's deception. Better to show that rather than explain it as some films do.

That way you avoid having awkward scenarios like Goldfinger needlessly explaining his entire plan to Bond just before he attempts to kill him. No villain would explain his scheme to a condemned man. You may be good at writing films with only a small amount of dialogue, similar to A Fistfull of Dollars, 2001: A Space Odyssey and Wall-E

^Maybe, but I prefer writing novels. I agree, films need a careful balance of show and tell, instead of tell/don't show.
A fair number of the main plot points in my book are described in dreams or seen through stored memories instead of people explaining everything. I've never seen Space Odyssey. What's it like?

It's one of my favorite movies. I recommend you seek out a copy and watch it. I love watching it on bluray with the lights turned out. It's not really a scary movie, just surreal. It has a reputation for being one of the most scientifically accurate and realistic space operas ever made, other than Apollo 13 of course.

2001: A Space Odyssey is also a novel. One of my favourite books. It makes no difference if you see the film first or read the book first. They're both excellent.

If you like a few unexplained mysteries, watch the film first. It doesn't fully explain the plot. If you like to know all that's going on, read the novel first. It explains everything point by point. After I read the novel the film made more sense to me.

^The only thing I know about the movie is HAL and the space baby. Two of my favourite movies are Spirited Away and Howl's Moving Castle, partially because they never explain everything and leave it up to you to decide. I think my book will also turn out like that.

It's like no other movie. The biggest thing to take away from it is this:
1) It is all done as if you are eavesdropping on the conversations and situations. There is no expository dialogue at all.
2) To really get the movie and what was happening between scenes or transitions, you will need to read the book.

One of the few fiction books I could really get into.