"You were Daydreaming again!"

Started by Palamon June 25th, 2019 3:45 PM
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Palamon

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How often do you "space out"? I space out a lot when I watch videos; mostly only then. I just feel spacey for some reason when I'm like this.

I spaced out in a post office, once, though, when I was wondering what type of envelope I needed to buy since I didn't have the item on me that I was planning on mailing. I didn't even realize I had until the guy at the front called out to me, though. It was weird... But this was back in November of last year. I guess I was just extremely focused on that to space out.

gimmepie

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I find it pretty easy to get lost in thought. I spend a lot of time exploring imaginary scenarios, problems, science, story ideas etc etc.
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I think the most common scenario for me is almost every class in which the teacher isn't able to stop reading their power points and explain something, or when I'm listening to music when I got nothing else to do.
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getting lost in the many worlds created by my own mind is pretty much one of my favourite pasttimes

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Typically when I'm doing something I don't really want to do, like during class or when I'm doing homework. I like to plan out my stories and such instead of doing like chemistry problems which is not really a good thing. XD

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I was very actively creating and playing around with worlds back in school. Nowadays it's mainly me walking around in circles discussing many potential scenarios and other things on a higher meta level that I would never be able to put into actual words.

That's also one way I use when I try to flesh out a character I created: I talk to them in my head.
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Sammi

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Don't get me wrong, I drift dangerously close to maladaptive daydreaming, but believe it or not, that is NOT the reason I'll space out when someone talks to me. It's because... I've probably lost interest in the conversation and tuned it out whoops. Or in other cases, I'll be doing something, a different thing distracts me, and I space out. Or I go to another room and forgot what I was going there for in the first place.

Actually, I find the older I get, the more I'm able to buckle down and not daydream when I need to be focused on here and now. Daydreaming is for dead times mentally -- walking to work and back, menial work tasks, when I'm extra bored at home and don't have anything better to do, and when I'm lying in bed to sleep. In the past the idea of letting go of my huge daydream worlds gave me anxiety but now I'm just like... it's alright if I can't escape there, because real life needs to take priority, and there will inevitably be brain downtime at some point.

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ZeoStar

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Not much anymore. In college now I feel I miss too much if I let myself, but in highschool I day dreamed all the time, even as a way to make class go faster.