Does anyone else daydream?

[happygoluckysockmonkey79]

i get ideas for my stories from everything

 

[Super Fantasy]

Often

 

[A. E. Lowan]

I've always done this, and every other writer I know does it. What messes with my head is wondering what non-creatives think about all day, if it's not imaginary friends and lives lived that aren't our own.

 

[AlexArcter]

These have been the main inspiration for my writing. When I was a kid I was a maladaptive daydreamer, which has lessened since I became an adult and my life became more stable. But these intense daydreams are the inspiration of my works. I was wondering if anyone else has done this?

I used to day dream about cartoon and anime style fights. But nowadays I occasionally slip into my universe for some daydreaming. It's kinda cool.

I get ideas from dreams. I am lucky, that once in a while I can enter a lucid dream and play almost the entire story through before I wake up. The trouble is remembering the specifics afterwards. Even keeping a digital recorder by the bed and trying a stream of consciousness recitation as soon as I get up doesn't seem to work. I try not to sweat it and let the ideas and sensations float back to me over the next few days.
Right now I've got the "memory" of a sunny hillside and cloud busting with not a care in the world. And no idea where it fits in a story...

I'm a little jealous, I've always wanted to get into lucid dreaming.

 

[Empathy001]

Oh I absolutely Daydream. Once when I was little, I had a daydream that I could literally travel to other worlds (basically reality shifting, but I didn’t know there was a name for that at the time.) I was so convinced that I made a bunch of my friends that I could do it, and then they began to claim they could as well. Looking back, I just wanted to be special, and my friends didn’t want to be left out, so we all collectively gaslit each other into believing it was real for like a year lmao.

 

[Ban]

I've always done this, and every other writer I know does it. What messes with my head is wondering what non-creatives think about all day, if it's not imaginary friends and lives lived that aren't our own.

If I'm to judge by my non-creative daydreams, it's probably intense debates on topics that weren't brought up. I'd be a wealthy man if I could cash in the amount of times I've been enraged by an illogical argument an imaginary strawman made in my head.

 

[A. E. Lowan]

Oh I absolutely Daydream. Once when I was little, I had a daydream that I could literally travel to other worlds (basically reality shifting, but I didn’t know there was a name for that at the time.) I was so convinced that I made a bunch of my friends that I could do it, and then they began to claim they could as well. Looking back, I just wanted to be special, and my friends didn’t want to be left out, so we all collectively gaslit each other into believing it was real for like a year lmao.

That is hysterical, mostly for me because my wife did that with her entire 6th Grade class, teachers and all, roleplaying an espionage thriller about a clandestine military organization during the Cold War. Appropriate, as it was in reality during the Cold War. The 80's were trippy.

 

[Super Fantasy]

I feel as if when awake im only day dreaming.
Perhaps I should write a poem about such day dreaming?

 

[Empathy001]

I feel as if when awake im only day dreaming.
Perhaps I should write a poem about such day dreaming?

Uh, ABSOLUTELY write that? You have the talent and the idea, here’s the support!

 

[Super Fantasy]

Day dreaming.
When day dreaming, I feel my mind a cloud.
And this day dreaming helps me think of poems to write.
Such as this poem.
In the morning I feel I am counting sheep out of spite.
As they are out of sight.
And when I daydream so, I feel like I am rather sleep walking.
Like my waking dreams the previous night are mocking.

 

[SandyC]

I get ideas from dreams. I am lucky, that once in a while I can enter a lucid dream and play almost the entire story through before I wake up. The trouble is remembering the specifics afterwards. Even keeping a digital recorder by the bed and trying a stream of consciousness recitation as soon as I get up doesn't seem to work. I try not to sweat it and let the ideas and sensations float back to me over the next few days.
Right now I've got the "memory" of a sunny hillside and cloud busting with not a care in the world. And no idea where it fits in a story...

That's very interesting because it works the other way around for me. If I don't write it down immediately, preferably straight after waking up, the dream fades too quickly. But if I do, I can often return to it the next night when I think about it as I fall asleep. Sometimes it continues.

 

[Mireille]

I work in the exams office in a school. I couldn’t do my job well if I couldn’t daydream. 2 hours in silence, watching students’ stress requires an active inner world.

 

[LuminaryGhost]

I find it hard to stop!

Daydreaming is honestly where I do most of my planning (now if I could actually get around to writing those damn daydreams down, we'd be cooking with charcoal...)

One of my fave things to do is what I personally call the "Clue" method. I imagine an interaction between characters, a fight, o whatever, then dial it back and ask "okay, but what if it happened like this?"

 

[Clansman]

I almost never remember my dreams. And certainly not long enough for them to become a story. I day dream on purpose. When i younger i did that whenever i could. As an adult its more focused. When in writing mode, i imagine the story and scene well before writing it. Dreams matter my characters better appreciate them.

I too, almost never remember my dreams. I try to keep a notebook & pen handy at all times. But ... in the middle of the night, with the possibility of waking up 'you know who', I decide I'll remember in the morning. I concentrate on the bits I remember, attempting to repeat them over and over until I'm sure I can't possibly forget ... and then I eventually fall asleep, again. In the morning I always remember that there was a dream I should remember ... but! Daydreaming is useful. It's exploring possibilities with the ideas you already have. Write everything down. It can be a part of your 'Zero draft.'

 

[Pesimystical]

Hi all, I daydream too often, so my current book is busy writing itself, I am bursting with ideas just don't have the time to write it all down. So I've learned to daydream at 4a.m. Often giggling to myself when a new idea materialises.

 

[jjxtra]

My head is usually in the clouds. Being autistic, I find myself lost in random thoughts frequently. As a kid, it's practically all I did at home. That and play on the computer.

 

[Fant@syaspiringauthor14]

These have been the main inspiration for my writing. When I was a kid I was a maladaptive daydreamer, which has lessened since I became an adult and my life became more stable. But these intense daydreams are the inspiration of my works. I was wondering if anyone else has done this?

This is exactly the reason I started writing in the first place, I never had anywhere to put my ideas so I decided to put them in words. I've always been a maladaptive daydreamer and sometimes have dreams or visions that reveal something to me about what's going to happen in the future or I'll have a vision of something in the day and it happens not long after. I've never been able to explain it everyone always puts it down to deja vu, but deja vu is when you feel like you have already experienced something but haven't and the dreams or visions I'd have were never anything like that. I'm still not sure as to what they are though but I am still young so I'll probably figure it out over time.

 

[Fant@syaspiringauthor14]

This is exactly the reason I started writing in the first place, I never had anywhere to put my ideas so I decided to put them in words. I've always been a maladaptive daydreamer and sometimes have dreams or visions that reveal something to me about what's going to happen in the future or I'll have a vision of something in the day and it happens not long after. I've never been able to explain it everyone always puts it down to deja vu, but deja vu is when you feel like you have already experienced something but haven't and the dreams or visions I'd have were never anything like that. I'm still not sure as to what they are though but I am still young so I'll probably figure it out over time.

Although this could be linked to my ADHD, autism and anxiety.