Does anyone else daydream?

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 is what I am kind of hoping will happen.
It usually takes a few days to either come to me where it fits in to a story or the whole thing floats away, like mist.
I wish I could daydream but the word "maladaptive" makes me think it is not all kittens, hugs, and ice cream [not all at the same time, mind you ].

 

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.

 

My childhood was comprised of worlds only I could see. I had friends, if only a few, but preferred to spend the majority of my time alone and in realms and spaces of my own creation for hours on end.

They remain a major part of my world today and are, without a doubt, the inspiration for most all of my creative work. Even now, I need time, daily, to dissolve into those spaces, just as some require socializing/connections/distractions etc. And I always find myself drifting there before writing each morning or as the last place I visit before sleep.

There was time when I thought it best to rid myself of them. To abandon them in service of becoming an adult. Silliest and most detrimental thing I've ever attempted. I was incomplete without them and miserable trying to be what others expected me to be. I'll never turn my back on them again.

 

Wait, there are people who don't daydream?

 

Teachers tried to stop me from daydreaming. Thankfully, it didn't work. Nowadays, daydreams are often the visualisations of my ideas or stories.