Anyone else get lost in their own world and...

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laugh out loud and smile or look upset or whatever? Or talk to themself... well not really themself... but you get it right? I mean I don't do this when people are around I make sure I'm alone. But these things kinda just slip from me and I'm only somewhat conscious of it. Usually I am just day dreaming and in my own world, while pacing (A stim of mine) and listening to music. It's the routine. The music helps me get lost in my mind and the pacing is a stim triggered by the stimulation of the fantasies and the music. So, again, does anyone else get lost in their own world and laugh out loud and smile or look upset or whatever? Or talk to... a person in their daydream and the words their saying come out into reality a little bit?

Yes talk to myself all the time when alone.
Yes get comments from people when Im Deep in thought and my facial expressions relate to what's in my head rather than the social situation that is in front of me (the one I have tuned out of).

Yes, a lot. It appears that I show a lot more emotion when I daydream or react to something I read, than when I actually interact with anyone.
As a child I even acted them out, as if playing, but I was daydreaming.
I still have to make an effort not to show too much emotion when I daydream around people. I probably slip some times. Just the other day I couldn't help giggling about a daydream when my mother and I was on the same room.
Thankfully I don't speak out loud. I can sometimes be so lost in the dream that I might reply with what I would say in the daydream when someone talks to me. It's the same when I'm really into a game, book or movie/series.


It's the same for me. I also find when I'm out that walking stimulates it and I start walking faster without noticing. My mother has been aware of that for a long time and when it happens when we're together she says: "Bye!" or "Now she's dreaming again."

When I was a teenager I lived in my own little fantasy world 24 hrs a day. I'd try to hide it but sometimes I'd slip up and have facial expressions or actions that others would comment on. I'd talk to myself when alone.

I do that a lot. I used to daydream a lot when I was a kid, even in class.

Yea I do this as well. Like even the pacing thing.
Actually I often get these sudden creative moods and I begin to fantasize and walk around the house. Especially tends to happen while listening to music.
It's during these times that I get great ideas to write stories or make paintings or whatever the hell, only to end in a bit of frustration because I can't write prose and I can't draw or paint at all lol. Reminds me that I should really practice on writing...

If anyone here has ever played Dwarf Fortress: compare it to Strange Mood. (Except that I don't begin to berserk and slaughter people if I don't get to realize a great work. :P)

Pacing is awesome! Especially with music.

What you mention, is this an example of Maladaptive Daydreaming ? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maladaptive_daydreaming

Hey, thanks for that link... now I know that it actually has a name lol.

When I'm getting over a particularly bad time of depression or stress or constant meltdowns and insanity, for a few days after I usually will just mumble a phrase or something related to whats bothering me to myself, somewhat under my breath very frequently. This is something that I've started doing within maybe the last five years. It's not voluntary either. Sometimes I can stop it but usually I can't. I'm not actually talking to myself or anyone else, and sometimes it mirrors what I'm thinking at the moment but it just comes out and I wish I could keep it from happening. Once I'm calmed down after a few days it goes away.

Well, except for my regular talking to myself that I do. Just actual talking to myself like "Now I can't believe this, I told them to pick up the towels out of the bathroom. " or "Where's that chicken I had in the fridge?" and it's just to myself. Not that I expect to answer myself, it's just a habit that I've had somewhat all my life that I picked up from my grandmother, but this blurting out a two or three word phrase related to whats bothering me is fairly new and embarrassing sometimes. Luckily it's not loud and if someone asks me what I said I tell them "Oh, just mumbling to myself" or "just moaning and groaning".

I just looked up the link you posted and I recognize that in myself. Thank you also. It is cool to identify it.

i never get lost in my own inner world. i get lost in external reality.

i have a podium which i have set up next to a window that overlooks my back yard, and i stand on it for 80% of the time i am awake.

i just think stuff while looking out the window, and what i think about is not really able to be translated into a language. i know what i am thinking, but i would never be able to share it because no one else would care about what i think about.

i have a shallow mind and i think about things that are not important to anyone else.
this afternoon i spent some time calculating the weight of the sydney opera house in kilograms. i had to research many things in order to arm my self with the information, but i calculated the sydney opera house weighs 94,600 tons. wow. now who do i ring up and tell that to? no one. no one is interested except for me, and i am just happy to have worked it out roughly for myself.

I do that sometimes. Ok, semi-regularly. I try not to have that happen with other people around, as far as stuff slipping out, but sometimes I'll get someone waving at me saying "Yoooo hooooo, earth to Charis!" or something like that. Often my going into my own little world around other people results in me coming "back to earth" in the middle of a conversation with no idea what they're talking about now. Usually while they're waiting for me to give an answer to a question that I "returned" just a little too late to actually hear.

I don't know, I think it is kind of fascinating that you do that. You could write a trivia book with your skills. Lots of people including me have bought them and enjoy reading such facts. I think it is very cool to know how much the SOH weighs in KGs.

i make enough money without having to share my private thoughts with the world.
but i do like to say them here so thanks for your appraisal.

Yes I feel and do it also. It`s a struggle to "stay" in the real world. Maybe because my own world has more to offer me and that I don`t care so much for people. I think this is very common for us aspies?