Overactive imagination or something more?

Man, this site really does have every topic I can think of.

So, lately I've become worried that behavior I have carried on since I was very young may be...I don't know...weird? I'll just get to it.

I admit to being anti-social, I have anxiety and some agoraphobia issues but I don't let it turn me into a recluse I have friends and go out. The thing is I still feel "detached" in general and often find myself wandering about in my head, traveling and such even when I'm in the company of real people.

It gets even worse when I go to bed. I cannot possibly fall asleep without first letting my mind drift off into a fantasy land of my own creating I get so involved mentally in this that I am hardly aware that I am not really in this make-believe place, I've even cried real tears over events that have taken place in my head.

I suppose that's enough on the subject for someone to hopefully say they can relate or tell me I may be a nut case. :\

(I have only recently admitted this to ANYONE so I'm rather embarrassed about the whole thing.)

 

When I was a kid I used to lie in bed before sleep every single night imagining myself in fantasy situations, making up stories in which I participated. My wife tells me she did the same thing. Our son is even more extreme. When he was about two or three he used to dash about the room in his fantasy adventures. He was doing this constantly. Now that he's almost 18, he writes stories down. But he says that's kind of a chore - it's a lot more fun, he says, to create the stories in his head than it is to write them down.

So...have you ever considered making any of your imagined world into written stories?

 

Don't worry, I do it too. Glad to know I'm not the only one!

 

Im the same way bro no worries

 

Its ok, I dont think its that unusual. I'm certainly very similar!

 

Okay well...good. I feel much better.

Also, to answer the one question I did used to write now I work more on visual arts, well lately I haven't had the motivation to work on much but I definitely try to express these things but it doesn't stop me from living in a (rock and roll) fantasy.

 

read any book by eckhart tolle, the power of now or a new earth are good reads. its about your unconcious mind and thinking. i has helped ease me alot

 

That sounds a lot like me, I am real anxious around people and have a hard time making small talk and conversing...even around my good friends especially if I have not seen them in a while...and I also stay up late at night imagining things and events in the future.

 

well,isnt this weird.I used to do it and stopped because I thought it wasn't normal,or at least,no-one ever talked about it openly before.

 

I talk to myself out loud sometimes, and almost always am conversing with myself in my head. Sometimes I feel like I have 2 people up there. I am imagining so many things in my head, that I forget what's going on around me. It's all more interesting in my head .

 

naw man dont be embarrassed about it...i only go to my grandmas grave alone cos i dont want people to see me in tears...and when what happened to her replays over and over in my head randomly i start to cry...its normal bro

 

Wow, a lot of people have crazy fantasy worlds in their heads then? Thanks a lot guys. I've always tried to pull the "I can be this eccentric because I'm an artist card" but have always felt rather abnormal due to it. Honestly, it was hard for me to even admit what I did in this post.

 

yeah, I think that this is pretty common


you might want to try doing a meditation practice though. clearing your mind for a while may help to balance you and reduce the anxiety

 

It's an amazing thing to realize that human beings are way more than corporate drones whose only function is to fulfill economic necessities.

Well, most human beings, anyway. I think...

 

I don't know about most. I'm afraid we maybe a rare breed.

 

so maybe all these imaginary scenarios co-inside, overlap, interconnect telepathically, empower each other energetically and on a subconscious and symbolic level creates "reality". our physicality being the materially manifesting composit made of the agreed upon elements of everyOne imaginary places. subconscious subatomic manipulation.

just a thought.

 

It's a fact that everyone think's they're crazy, if you see what I mean. The real nutters are the ones who think they're sane, who think that what they're doing in their normal life is sane. Most people realise on some level or another that what they are doing is not sane but still continue to do it, slowly aggravating their condition. Thus, we all suffer from a mental illness of sorts these days, most of it revolving around our current life and life up to that point, which is why we like to imagine ourselves in another world with different events, sometimes even sadder events than the ones in the real world.

Interesting that we live in a world with such a prevalance of mental illness and unhappiness; disassociation and restraint in our expression. These discomforts are an important tool when it comes to helping people realise that there is something wrong with our society, for it is only when something fails them when those people will learn of its faults.

 

You sound brilliant to me!! A true diamond in the rough! I can relate!!

 

I have worked in Mental Health for 5 years and I can tell you one thing about your behavior, it only becomes a condition or illness when somebody who dislikes your behavior or habbit has the power to diagnose it. You are perfectly normal. How sad would life be without the power to imagine something better.

 

Sounds like you have an introverted personality, and enjoy the company you keep within yourself. Unless this causes problems ..... I wouldn't worry too much about it.